Welcome to Careers at Laings

Meet Our Inspiring Colleague

Annie Deans

Annie Deans began her career in client services but was soon captivated by the intricate world of Swiss watchmaking. With the support of the Glasgow Service Centre team, she stepped onto the workshop floor as a trainee watchmaker, undertaking hands-on training before securing a place at the prestigious British School of Watchmaking. Discover how Annie’s journey with Laings led her to become a fully qualified watchmaker.

Meet Our Inspiring Colleague

Emma Millar

Learn how Emma Millar, Goldsmith and Stone Setter, undertook a journey of education and passion at the world-renowned Alexandre Diamond Setting School in Antwerp. Following the three-month Diamond Optical Setting course, Emma returned to Laings with skills that have been applied to recent high-profile creations including the necklace commissioned by Sir Jackie Stewart for his Race Against Dementia fundraising event.

Laings Success Stories

Michael Painter

Michael Painter, our Rolex Brand Ambassador at Laings Edinburgh finds so much pride from working with one of the world’s most prestigious watch brands. Michael adores tailoring each Rolex interaction with personal touches and finds being part of our client’s special moments of celebration so rewarding.

RECOGNITION

At Laings, we strongly believe in acknowledging and rewarding outstanding performance, enthusiasm, and achievements. We have established different incentives that reward and recognise those who go above and beyond in promoting our values. An entire range of awards awaits you, from rewarding milestone lengths of service to our awards of excellence, including Colleague of the Month in each of our Showrooms.

DEVELOPMENT

Your career can reach new heights with our diverse learning pathways, structured development, and on-demand digital learning along with role coaching. Our purposely developed platform of online learning offers a variety of industry-aligned modules to further your knowledge. Our Sales and Services colleagues are regularly presented with opportunities to attend leading Brand workshops and events, instrumental to your skills development.

GENERAL BENEFITS

Our benefits include life assurance, enhanced company pension, travel loans, and, after six months, the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave. We have an attractive discount scheme, and access to our benefits website with more than 1,000 discounts and offers at local and national retailers. Season travel ticket loans are available and we can offer discounted parking. Or if you prefer to cycle into work, we have a cycle to work scheme. Depending on your position, we also have an attractive team performance-led incentive structure.

SOCIAL AND CULTURE

Every year, we organise a variety of team social events for our colleagues. We love to recognise celebrations and important moments in all our colleagues’ lives including birthdays and personal achievements. We constantly strive to foster diversity, inclusion, and equity. While our journey is ongoing, our shared commitment is to our culture of belonging and to the equality of opportunity. We follow practices that are free from discrimination.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING

We support a healthy lifestyle by promoting health check-ups and flu-jabs. We also offer independent priority access to mental health support, debt and budgeting advice, menopause coaching and more. To help you stay fit and healthy you can access a number of gym discounts and healthcare plans. Further, we offer our employee assistance programme; a 24-hour service designed to help you with all of life’s questions, issues, or concerns from childcare and relationships to mental health and financial issues.