Women at MMS: We go the extra mile

Performance and feedback conversations

Through regular performance and feedback conversations, we ensure that our female employees’ personal and professional goals are aligned with our company objectives. Their development is of central importance to us.

Performance and feedback conversations provide our female employees with personal and targeted feedback, while allowing them to define their individual development plan together with their manager.

In this way, we ensure that we are all working toward a common goal while at the same time fostering an appreciative and open feedback culture. This gives our female colleagues regular opportunities for reflection as well as neutral feedback from their managers.

The best learning journey for all employees

We work with our employees for the long term and want to offer them the best possible opportunities for their professional and personal development. This also includes training and learning programs for our female employees that support them in growing and achieving their goals.

That is why it is important to us to provide them with the best possible learning journey, tailored precisely to their needs.

Here are a few examples from our broad range of offerings:

• GoodHabitz
• Various development programs
• Training courses (digital, hybrid, live)
• The MMS Academy – hybrid learning (in person & digital)

At the same time, we support our female colleagues in gaining new perspectives through guidance and the exchange of experience. In this way, we foster informal learning partnerships with experienced individuals to support their long-term professional development.

The international leadership program

Our 9-month international development program is designed to foster leaders on an international level and strengthen their skills in strategy communication, stakeholder management, resilience, and personal development through coaching.

In this way, we support them in their development and offer them opportunities for international transfers or promotions into top management. Since we have many talented women and actively support them in advancing their careers, we have achieved a very high proportion of women 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 one goal: equal representation of women at all levels of the company – including top management.

IWiL brings together high-profile individuals as members who serve as personal mentors, supporting highly qualified and successful women on their path to the top as part of a mentoring program.

At MediaMarktSaturn, we support IWiL by providing mentors and giving our female employees the opportunity to connect with high-profile mentors.

Flexible working hours

We know that life is unpredictable, especially when you take on caregiving responsibilities for children or relatives – responsibilities that are still often carried out by women. That is why we offer our employees as much flexibility as possible to ensure they can succeed both professionally and personally with trust-based and flexible working hours*.

*The availability of flexible and trust-based working time models may vary depending on the position and specific conditions.

Golden rules for recruiting & development

We all have unconscious biases. That makes it even more important to establish structures and processes to counteract them. That is why we introduced our “Golden Rules” for recruiting and development to ensure that every longlist consists of 50% female candidates. In this way, we make sure that all talent is equally recognized and supported.