What positions are you looking for: Mercado Libre will double its workforce in one year

Mercado Libre, Argentina’s largest company, will double its workforce this year in the region. “This year, we will double direct employment, we are going to hire 16,000 people across the region, or 32,000 people ”, announced Sebastián Fernández Silva, Human Resources Director of the online giant.

“We are aware of our increasingly relevant social role. This direct job growth will also generate many other jobs along the value chain and in the hundreds of thousands of SMEs that use our ecosystem, ”he added.

The most significant growth of the Mercado Libre will be in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia. In Mexico, they will go from 1,022 people to more than 5,700; in Brazil, it will rise from 4,969 to over 12,000. in Argentina, it will rise from 7,000 to 9,800 employees, which implies an increase of 40%.

The hiring will revolve around two axes: 11,000 people will be needed for the area of ​​storage and distribution structures, this concerns the new storage centers in the region in Brazil and Mexico. The second focus will be technology, which will add 4,000 people across the region. The rest of the hiring is aimed at strengthening other areas of staff. “This year we will hire more people than we have hired in previous years,” said Fernández Silva.

In Argentina, growth will depend on hiring in the technology sector. “Our decision takes into account the costs, but above all the talents, and Argentina is a country of excellent human capital and we continue to hire and promote job growth through other alliances, like this one. that we have done with Digital House and Globant to train people in technology. “Explained the vice president of the company’s people.

On the reasons why growth in Argentina is lower than in other countries in the region, From the company headed by Marcos Galperin, they clarified that in other countries in the region, growth is linked to the size of the market.

Despite the difficulties that the market presented during the pandemic, the business has continued to grow: had net income of $ 3,973 million in 2020 (73% more than in 2019) and its gross margin was $ 1,709 million (+ 55%). In addition, the company had a pre-tax net profit of US $ 81 million, while in 2019 it lost US $ 107 million. The data comes from the announcement of the results that the company has published for the fourth quarter of 2020 and for the year ended. Meanwhile, at the start of the year, the company surpassed a valuation of 100,000 million US dollars on Wall Street, where it is listed.

According to company data, During the pandemic, 8,000 new SMEs joined the Mercado Libre and 75,000 have started using Mercado Pago’s financial services. “Today, 600,000 families earn their living by generating their income through the Mercado Libre,” they explained.