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Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025

As an HR Professional, I believe it is vital to keep employee engagement and culture at the heart of any talent management strategy. One of the biggest challenges is ensuring that what a business says about its engagement and culture aligns to what they live and breathe in practise.

Here at Pi, we do just that. As the Head of People, I appreciate that we have something very special – our employee ownership structure and financial transparency helps us to ensure that everyone is recognised as an individual and our warm, collaborative and supportive culture can be seen in everything we do.

We have always understood that people need different things from their careers at different times, which is why flexible working has been a core part of our DNA since our inception 25 years ago. Pi’s growth journey has been ambitious, and our team has grown considerably over recent years.

Sunday Times Best Places to work 2025 - 3rd year in a row

How Pi Partnership Have Enhanced

We have put great effort in enhancing and complementing our already established skillset and experience to build a team of 60 people, whilst ensuring our team remain engaged and our culture is not lost. A key challenge has been adapting to hybrid working where we look to combine the best of people working closely in teams even when there are geographical restrictions.Our focus at Pi has always been on our people and our culture and as we continue to grow, maintaining high engagement and retaining and nurturing our very special culture remains a priority.

This means adapting and understanding different demands around supporting families with children and those with elderly relatives. It means making sure that everyone knows they can ask for help without being judged. And so, Pi is delighted to announce for a 3rd year running, we have been awarded a Sunday Times Best Places To Work 2025. We have also been highly commended in the ‘Spotlight Award’, where we are pleased to be recognised for ‘best places to work for employees aged 55+’. This year reflects our move into the Medium Size Organisation category – so keeping this award against a new peer group is even more special. If you want to find out more about our culture and what makes us special, have a look at our ‘Life at Pi’ video on our careers page Careers at Pi Partnership.

I am proud of our team, and everyone’s continued collaborative effort and contribution to making Pi a great place to work.

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Diversity

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone has different needs, and we support this balance offering true flexibility in how our people manage their time and fully support part time working and a family friendly approach.

Communication

Communication

We believe in clear and transparent communication and create regular opportunities for internal communication. Our regular business updates and opportunities to input into the business ensures everyone feels part of the team and on the same page at Pi, ensuring our hybrid working model is effective regardless of where you are based.

Development

Development

Nurturing every Pi Person is important to us and we want to ensure everyone has the opportunity for continued professional development by providing the space to do this alongside client commitments. Everyone has an individual Personal Development Plan catered to them, whether they are on the start of their journey with Pi or those looking at ways to transition into the next stage of their careers.

Everyone has the opportunity for a regular development and progression review and everyone has ownership over their own development with input and guidance of senior member of the team where required.

We provide regular opportunities to share knowledge amongst our teams through Lunch Time Learn in sessions and actively encourage involvement and participation into this.

Culture

Culture

We are an open, friendly and supportive team who thrive in a flexible and autonomous environment. Our people are trusted to get on with things, adding value and individual contribution, whilst maintaining a good work life balance and ideally having fun along the way.

We want to ensure we cultivate our special culture and our focus is to maintain our exceptional engagement levels. We are proud to have been awarded the Sunday Times Best Place to Work for small businesses in 2023 and 2024, and also in 2025 after moving to the medium-sized business category.

Employee Owned

Employee Owned

Our employee ownership structure is central to our philosophy of making sure every Pi Person is part of our success story, contributing to how we run the business, and sharing in the profits. We know that being successful is not just down to numbers, it’s about our people who all contribute in their unique way to our success and creating a working environment where everyone has a voice.

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Amanda Burden

Director and Governance Specialist

Amanda is a Board Director of Pi Partnership Group and leads the development of Pi’s services. She works closely with clients, the Pi team and professional advisers to ensure all of Pi’s services meet the changing needs of the pension market and deliver clear value to Pi’s clients.

Amanda has over twenty-five years’ experience in the pensions industry and, as well as ensuring Pi’s services continue to meet the needs of our clients in a rapidly changing pension landscape, is also a member of Pi’s Executive Management Team. She provides specialist project management for clients on a range of services, including adviser selection and review, trustee board assessment and governance design.

As well as being a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) and Chair of the PMI London Group, Amanda holds PMI certificates in Pensions Automatic Enrolment and DC Governance, was a past Prince2 practitioner and is a Certified Risk Management Practitioner.

What do you most enjoy about your role:  Successfully delivering complex projects and creating a happy team environment.

Interests outside work: Travel, theatre and as part of Abundance London helping create beautiful spaces in urban settings.

Top achievement to date: Competing in the 2005/06 Round the World Clipper race.