Combining Career with Motherhood: Pioneering People x The Biskery

In today’s fast-paced world, balancing career and motherhood often feels like walking a tightrope. Lots of women face guilt, hassle, and lack of flexibility — therefore feeling as if they have to choose between their ambition and taking care of their family.

Friends, Lisa and Saskia started The Biskery as a small project in 2016, while also taking care of their young children full time. They initially set out to sell treats from their home countries at local farmers markets. Their background in digital marketing quickly opened new doors and opportunities and allowed them to grow and shape the business into what it is today: a successful, values-led business creating bespoke biscuits for the likes of Meta, The BBC, and Fendi, as well as consumers of all backgrounds and ages.

Despite catering for world renowned brands, The Biskery has always kept their initial premise, to introduce more female qualities to the business world, and allow women to combine a career with motherhood, without the guilt or too much difficulty from the employer side.

With this vision, operations and revenues still need to be kept efficient. One may think, how does The Biskery do it?

Part of the answer lies in their passion, ambition and determination for the business, and the other part: their partnership with Pioneering People. Running a business with such a strong vision has its challenges, especially when it comes to hiring the right people.

Our seamless solution minimises the hassle, cost and effort of staffing with flexible working hours that work for all. As a Leeds-based company, The Biskery is most likely to benefit from the large sums of verified workers that Pioneering People has further south of the country. For example, in London, The Biskery have openings from event executives for their Live Biscuit Printing events, to catering support and brand/PR activation support. Rather than bearing the costs of moving their Leeds team up and down the country, they are able to plug in workers from Pioneering People as and when they need them, without having to pay for accommodation, travel and other expenditure. Not to mention, finding local staff is a bonus for The Biskery and Pioneering People’s mission of reducing carbon emissions.

The services go beyond location. Pioneering People covers the entire verification process, by checking workers’ Right to Work, bank and identity verifications, The Biskery are saving time, money and ensuring the right people are filling in their shifts. Our services allow them to focus on what truly matters: empowering working mothers and running a purposeful business that integrates career and family life.

The Biskery’s vision, combined with Pioneering People’s expertise, creates a winning formula that breaks down the barrier faced by working mothers, allowing them to pursue both their professional and personal ambitions, guilt-free.

Lastly, but not least, the partnership between The Biskery and Pioneering People has meant that all Pioneers (workers on the platform) get a 20% intro discount on all products in their webshop: https://www.thebiskery.com/ (with code PIONEER20)