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Women @MediaMarktSaturn

How our Women @MMS support us in becoming the Experience Champion

Even though consumer electronics often seems like a male-dominated world, half of the people who shop at MediaMarktSaturn are women. As we want to offer them the best shopping experience, it is important that we incorporate female perspectives into all our business areas. That's why it's an entrepreneurial imperative for us to encourage women and give them a voice in our company.

We can only become the Experience Champion and offer our employees the best Employee Experience if everyone in our company is heard. This also includes the targeted promotion of women – at all levels of management and in our stores.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are crucial for shaping the way we do business every day. Our ambition: A workplace where varying perspectives, grounded in our employees’ very unique personal backgrounds, contribute to our success and growth. By forming diverse teams, we foster an environment where those unique perspectives thrive, leading to enhanced creativity, innovation, and problem-solving. Professionally and personally, we are dedicated to ensuring each person feels valued, respected, and is treated equally empowering them to contribute their best.

Our women at MediaMarktSaturn make an important contribution in driving our company and create moments that matter for our customers. I am proud of their passion for our business. We want to give them the opportunity to grow – and we see great development stories throughout our whole company on different career levels. These success stories make many of our female colleagues role models in our organization and help other women in fostering their career journey. And this is just the beginning: We want to constantly create new opportunities for them to further strengthen our female employees and managers. Because we believe that this will make us even stronger in the future.

Iris Prüfer

We go Above & Beyond: Take a Look at our Benefits and Development Opportunities

We go above and beyond to make sure our employees have great experiences with us - after all: ensuring a great Employee Experience is one of our four key strategic pillars at MediaMarktSaturn. Why? Because our team, our employees, makes the difference on our way to becoming the Experience Champion. Helping them succeed is our mission.

Performance & Feedback Dialogues

By conducting regular performance and feedback dialogues, we ensure that personal and professional goals of our employees match with our organizational goals. As their development is key for us, these performance & feedback dialogues are a very important tool to provide them with personal and targeted feedback and define their individual development plan – together with their leader. This way, we ensure to stay on track while fostering an appreciative and open (feedback) culture. This gives our female employees the opportunity, to reflect on their achievements and receive neutral feedback from their leaders.

The best learning journey for every employee

We’re in for the long haul with our employees and strive to give them the best chances to advance – professionally as well as personally. This also includes trainings to support our female employees to grow and reach their goals. So, it’s key for us to provide them with the best possible learning journeys that match their needs exactly. And here are some examples of what we offer:

GoodHabitz
Various Development Programs
Trainings (digital, hybrid, live)
The MMS Academy – hybrid learnings (on site & digitally)
At the same time, we support our colleagues in recognizing new perspectives and possible solutions through advice and shared experiences. Thus, we promote informal learning partnerships with experienced individuals to support their long-term career development.

The International Leadership Program

Our 9-month international leadership development program aims to develop leaders internationally and strengthen their skills in the areas of strategy communication, stakeholder management, resilience, and personal development through coaching. In this way, we promote and support the development of managers and the possibility of international transfers or promotions to top management. As we have many female talents and make sure to support them in advancing their careers, we have managed to achieve a very high female share in our International Leadership Program.

Initiative Women into Leadership (IWiL)

We are part of the non-profit organization “Initiative Women into Leadership”. Why? Because we have a goal: Equal representation of female talent at all levels in the organization – including top level. IWiL attracts top personalities as members who – as personal mentors – accompany highly qualified and successful women on their way to the top as part of a mentoring program. At MediaMarktSaturn, we’re supporting IWiL with mentors while giving our female employees the chance to find high-profile mentors.

Flexible Working Hours

We know that life is not predictable, especially if you have care responsibilities – and most of these are still often taken over by women. So, we offer our employees as much flexibility as we can to make sure they can succeed professionally as well as personally with our trust-based and flexible working hours*.

^{*The possibility of flexible and trust-based working time models may vary depending on the position are subject to certain conditions.}

Golden Rules for Recruiting & Development

We all have biases. So, it’s even more important to have structures and processes in place to confront and eradicate them. This is why we introduces our “Golden Rules” for recruiting and development to ensure that any longlist consists of 50% female candidates. This way we help all talents to be equally seen and promoted.

Other Benefits

Sabbatical / “My day off…”
Aduna.Care
egym Wellpass
Humanoo App
Newsletter & regular communication and training offers on health related topics
Childcare support (might vary depending on location)
Joint celebrations
Company Run
And many more…

^{Benefits may vary depending on location and position and are subject to certain conditions.}

Want to learn more about the great offers in our countries and their development opportunities & benefits? Get started, learn more and join the team!

Women in Retail – Our Community for Gender Equality

Founded in 2019, Women in Retail was MediaMarktSaturn’s first Employee Resource Group. Our Vision: We want to support MediaMarktSaturn in becoming the most attractive employer for women. Why? Because we know that diversity and inclusivity are the driving forces behind innovation and success.

With Women in Retail we encourage our female colleagues here at MediaMarktSaturn to go new ways and also support them in taking on more responsibility including leadership positions. Our goals:

Increase

Increase the number of women at all levels @MMS

Support

Support women to develop into management positions

Create

Create a culture that enables women to succeed @MMS

We know that - to make a difference – it takes more than our female colleagues, so going forward finding allies will be all the more important. Together we want to shape the company's vision of becoming the Experience Champion and – equally important – contribute to a brighter future for women in general.

Interview

Meet the founders: Ana Maria Jaime Salcedo and Eva Posan

In an interview, Ana Maria Jaime Salcedo, founder of Women in Retail, and Eva Posan, founder of Women in Retail International, explain why they set up the network, what milestones they have already achieved and where they want to take the initiative over the next five years.