Mercadona has reported today that it already has more than 100,000 people on staff, “all of them with permanent and quality contracts”, a fact that for the company reflects the company’s “firm and constant” commitment to incorporating talent as a key factor in her project. Specifically, the chain of physical supermarkets and online sales closed 2023 with a workforce of 104,000 people, 98,700 in Spain and 5,300 in Portugal, after creating 5,000 jobs in the last year.
The evolution of the workforce has been notable in recent years, mainly since the beginning of the “brutal transformation of Mercadona”, as the company explains. At the end of 2016, this project started to consolidate a “more digital, productive and sustainable” business model. Since then, the company has created up to 25,000 new jobs, which in relative terms represents an increase of 32%. “It is a pride to be able to say that we are now a family of more than one hundred thousand people, whose commitment has allowed us to achieve the challenges set despite the context of uncertainty that we have experienced in recent years,” says Paula Llop, director of Social Responsibility. from Mercadona.
Regarding the profile of Mercadona’s workforce, the highest percentage of people (39%) are between 40 and 49 years old, with 29% being people between 30 and 39 years old; 16%, over 50 years old and another, 16%, young people up to 29 years old.
Being a supermarket company, the bulk of the workforce (82%) works in stores, 12% in logistics and the remaining 6% in offices. And although 61% of the total are women, the percentage of directors in the company grows, reaching 47% at the end of the year.
The company maintains that the workers are “the best asset of the clients”, as well as essential for business growth, which is why it advocates for “stable and quality employment, with salaries above the sector average.” . Furthermore, it explains that to guarantee the purchasing power of its staff, within the framework of its Total Quality Model, it has improved for another year both the base salary and the existing supplements with a salary increase in line with the CPI, placing the minimum salary in the company at 1,553 gross euros per month (17% higher than the Minimum Interprofessional Salary).
Added to this is its commitment to training, professional projection and the promotion of talent. In the 2023 balance sheet, the company highlights the 110 million euros destined to consolidate and improve the skills and knowledge of its staff, translated into more than 3.4 million hours of training. Likewise, 2,221 workers have been promoted to positions of greater responsibility. “Mercadona is a business project that allows its team to grow at the pace that the company does,” the firm maintains.