Trailblazer Pacesetter LATE BLOOMER
Company Narrative
Kraft Heinz, a food and consumer product company, has been ranked as a LATE BLOOMER on the Women’s Power and Influence Index. Kraft Heinz is dedicated to diversifying its talent pipeline through its partnership program with Sister Circle: Black Women in Tech. Kraft Heinz has implemented a comprehensive harassment policy.
As of 2021, Kraft Heinz’s workforce is comprised of 37% women.
Sufficient information could not be found relating to Kraft Heinz’s harassment and discrimination training, pay parity, or women-specific healthcare benefits.
Workforce Profile
Equitable Pay
✓ Does the company demonstrate a clear and transparent commitment to equal pay?
“We know that a truly inclusive culture allows people to contribute their unique perspectives and ideas, execute with excellence, and grow great careers. Our aim at Kraft Heinz is to create an environment where everyone and anyone – regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, age, religion, belief, or disability – can feel they can thrive and authentically lead as themselves. Closing the gender pay gap and improving the balance between men and women within our organisation is critical to achieving this ambition.”
Ref: pg 2, Kraft Heinz Gender Pay Gap Report
✓ Does the company perform an annual analysis of gender pay equity and pay disparities?
“Over the past five years since reporting our gender pay gap, we have seen both our mean and median gender pay gap become more favorable towards women for both our commercial entity and our combined commercial and manufacturing entities.”
Ref: pg 2, Kraft Heinz Gender Pay Gap Report
✓ Do female employees earn at least 95% of what their male counterparts earn?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.
Career Growth
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to actively attracting, retaining, and/or promoting women within the organization?
“At Kraft Heinz, we believe that everyone should have a seat at the table. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace because we believe that it makes us stronger, more thoughtful, and more innovative. We are committed not only to listening to different points of view, but also to truly hearing them. By embracing diverse perspectives, we can make better decisions and create products that are enjoyed by consumers all over the world.
- We aim to have women fill 50% of our global management positions by 2025.”
Ref: pg 1, Kraft Heinz DEI&B Highlights
✓ Does the company provide professional development programs designed specifically for female employees?
“We are committed to our Value, “We champion great people.” Through our award-winning learning ecosystem, we advance personal and professional development across the globe and in multiple languages. We also promote candid and constructive feedback, regular coaching, and mentoring. In addition, we have created development programs and experiences for women and people of color to foster inclusion and belonging. The WE Network, WeLead, and Mentor KHC are examples of such programs.
The WE Network is a global accelerator program focused on leadership development for women. Participants are at the Associate Director level and being developed to be the next generation of Kraft Heinz leaders.
- Through virtual and live sessions, participants strengthen their skills to support infinite success, including sessions entitled: Identifying Strengths, How Women Rise, Disrupt Yourself, Team Leadership, Making Tough Decisions, and Influencing. This unique program also builds community across functions and locations.”
Ref: pg 5, Kraft Heinz DEI Report
✓ Does the company provide professional development programs designed specifically for diverse employees?
“To ensure we continually improve, we collect data and feedback from a wide range of sources to inform our initiatives. This information helps us to identify areas where we can improve and develop data-driven plans to drive progress. As a result, we have established strategies to promote diverse hiring, retention, development, and advancement to support our global aspirations. By taking these steps, we create a workplace where everyone feels welcomed, valued, and respected.”
Ref: pg 1, Kraft Heinz DEI&B Highlights
✘ Does the company offer a formal mentoring program to support the career advancement of all female employees?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.
✘ Does the company offer a formal mentoring program to support the career advancement of diverse employees?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.
✓ Does the company have policies and programs in place to actively recruit female candidates?
“We are on a journey to create a diverse and inclusive workplace, so people can contribute their unique perspectives and ideas, grow great careers, and do their best work. Everyone should feel seen, heard, valued, and respected.
- We aim to achieve gender parity within management positions by 2025″
Ref: pg 3/4, Kraft Heinz DEI Report
✓ Does the company have policies and programs in place to actively recruit diverse candidates?
“We are on a journey to create a diverse and inclusive workplace, so people can contribute their unique perspectives and ideas, grow great careers, and do their best work. Everyone should feel seen, heard, valued, and respected.
- We aim to achieve demographic parity in the countries in which we operate. For example:
- In the U.S., by 2025, we aim for People of Color to represent 30% of the salaried employee population.
- In Brazil, by 2025, we aim for people who identify as Pretos e Pardos to represent 40% of the salaried employee population.
- In the UK, by 2025, we aim for people who identify as ethnic minorities to represent 17% of the salaried employee population.”
Ref: pg 3/4, Kraft Heinz DEI Report
Work-Life Balance
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to providing support and/or time off for women with children?
“In 2022, we made further enhancements to parental benefits and expanded paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers, including adoptive parents, surrogate situations, and same sex couples (where legally allowed), and expanded support for pregnancy loss to additional countries. Where relevant, we provide employees with paid time off for breastfeeding and we have dedicated nursing rooms in some locations.”
Ref: pg 2, Kraft Heinz Employee Health & Wellness
✓ Does the company provide child care support for employees?
“In 2022, we made further enhancements to parental benefits and expanded paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers, including adoptive parents, surrogate situations, and same sex couples (where legally allowed), and expanded support for pregnancy loss to additional countries. Where relevant, we provide employees with paid time off for breastfeeding and we have dedicated nursing rooms in some locations.”
Ref: pg 2, Kraft Heinz Employee Health & Wellness
✘ Does the company offer subsidized child care?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.
✓ Does the company offer paid maternity leave for birthing parents?
“In 2022, we made further enhancements to parental benefits and expanded paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers, including adoptive parents, surrogate situations, and same sex couples (where legally allowed), and expanded support for pregnancy loss to additional countries. Where relevant, we provide employees with paid time off for breastfeeding and we have dedicated nursing rooms in some locations.”
Ref: pg 2, Kraft Heinz Employee Health & Wellness
✓ Does the company provide paid parental leave that extends beyond birthing parents to include surrogacy, adoption, and paternity leave?
“In 2022, we made further enhancements to parental benefits and expanded paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers, including adoptive parents, surrogate situations, and same sex couples (where legally allowed), and expanded support for pregnancy loss to additional countries. Where relevant, we provide employees with paid time off for breastfeeding and we have dedicated nursing rooms in some locations.”
Ref: pg 2, Kraft Heinz Employee Health & Wellness
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to supporting the health benefits of its female employees?
“We are committed to supporting and inspiring a lifestyle of well-being for our employees in and out of the workplace. We aim to provide equitable benefits coverage through affordable core plans of healthcare, protection, and future savings complemented by local benefits to address market trends and cultural nuances and access to additional plans tailored to meet individual needs and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
Ref: pg 1, Kraft Heinz Employee Health & Wellness
✘ Does the company offer women-specific health benefits for female employees?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.
Workplace Standards
✓ Does the company have a policy listing prohibited behaviors, such as harassment and retaliation?
“All Kraft Heinz employees, job applicants, and business partners must be treated with respect, regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, sex, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. All employment decisions, including hiring, training, promotion, and compensation, must be free of any discrimination and based on each employee’s or applicant’s qualifications, performance, and abilities. We all thrive when the workplace is free of discrimination.
We will not tolerate harassment—whether it is sexual or non-sexual in nature—of any kind or any other offensive or disrespectful conduct in the workplace by anyone, including any supervisor, employee, contractor or other business partner of the Company. Kraft Heinz complies with all applicable laws prohibiting harassment wherever we do business. However, no matter the circumstances, we do not allow any harassing or disrespectful behavior, including unwelcome verbal, visual, physical or other conduct of any kind that causes others to feel uncomfortable or unwelcome at work, or that creates an intimidating, offensive or hostile work environment. Harassment is determined by how your actions impact others, regardless of your intentions. If you experience discrimination or harassment or witness it happening to someone else, speak up and report it.”
Ref: pg 17, Kraft Heinz Harassment Policy
✘ Does the company mandate all employees to undergo harassment and discrimination training?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.
✓ Does the company have a defined harassment policy that includes promptly addressing reported incidents?
“Failure to follow the Code is a serious matter. When one of us violates the Code, it can place other employees, consumers, the public, or the reputation of Kraft Heinz at risk. Violations of the Code may result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment. In very serious breaches, there can even be civil or criminal legal consequences for the people involved or for Kraft Heinz. Failure of contractors or business partners to abide by the Code may lead to termination of their relationship with Kraft Heinz.”
Ref: pg 11, Kraft Heinz Harassment Policy
Stakeholder Engagement
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to helping external stakeholders address gender equality issues?
“Inclusive recruiting is a key focus for us. As We dare to do better every day, a diverse workforce can help lead to increased innovation, productivity, and profitability. As such, we continue to review our partnerships to provide a welcoming and inclusive workplace for all. In 2022, we added and enhanced partnerships with the following organizations as examples.”
Ref: pg 4, Kraft Heinz DEI&B Highlights
✓ Does the company offer and support initiatives that promote gender equality in the community?
“Inclusive recruiting is a key focus for us. As We dare to do better every day, a diverse workforce can help lead to increased innovation, productivity, and profitability. As such, we continue to review our partnerships to provide a welcoming and inclusive workplace for all. In 2022, we added and enhanced partnerships with the following organizations as examples.
- Sister Circle: Black Women in Tech: A solidarity group dedicated to supporting the work of Black Women in the technology industry from across the diaspora.”
Ref: pg 4, Kraft Heinz DEI&B Highlights
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to helping internal stakeholders/employees address gender equality issues?
“To help diversify our internal pipeline, we continue to invest in the development of our employees’ skills, knowledge, and abilities to help them perform their jobs more effectively and contribute to Kraft Heinz’s success. In 2022, we introduced two of McKinsey & Company’s award-winning leadership academies specifically designed for people of color: the Management Accelerator and Executive Leadership programs. These programs create psychologically safe spaces for leaders to unpack diversity, equity, and inclusion challenges and become more impactful in their careers.”
Ref: pg 3, Kraft Heinz DEI&B Highlights
✓ Does the company offer equity-focused trainings, speaker programs, or events for employees?
“We hosted our third annual Ownerversity Day, a 24-hour global learning event designed to bring our entire Kraft Heinz family together to make time for learning. Our 2022 theme was “The Power of WE: My Difference Makes a Difference” and we offered a variety of immersive and engaging sessions focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. These sessions:
- Helped employees enhance their understanding of the unique lived experiences of colleagues and celebrate what makes them unique;
- Introduced the concept of inclusive design thinking for employees to leverage in their routines and rituals to make them fair, equitable, and unbiased;
- Encouraged employees to be the change they wish to see in the world through their everyday choices and actions that, when done together, create a ripple effect of change.”
Ref: pg 3, Kraft Heinz DEI&B Highlights