What We Offer: attractive opportunities for work and life
Internationalization, integration and growth are the hallmarks of Deutsche Post World Net's development. As a market leader in several business areas, our group is fit for the future. We can offer you attractive, individual opportunities to develop your talents and achieve your career goals. Aside from challenging jobs, we offer a strong corporate culture, a friendly and professional working environment and a comprehensive range of further education and training programs. But the spectrum of jobs is even broader. Whether it is in personnel development or public relations, internal IT services or procurement, facility management or fleet maintenance: There are only very few companies that offer so many opportunities for so many various talents.
a. How we support your career
Deutsche Post World Net has developed clear processes covering performance and target evaluations as well as assessments of employees' and executives' potential. This creates transparency for all involved. The employee, too, knows the requirements and can apply his or her professional energies accordingly.
Individual feedback is the core of our "motiv8" performance management system. Through their evaluations, supervisors document important successes of individual employees and offer an assessment of the employee's likely future development. motiv8 thus offers a fresh opportunity for a renewed performance assessment and development recommendation each year - to ensure that we recognize your potential early on and can help you develop it in a targeted manner.
b. Goals
The goals of motiv8 are easy to summarize: integrate, motivate and foster performance to prepare employees for higher-level positions. The aim is:
- To develop and improve the quality of management.
- To support potential management candidates.
- To strengthen the Group and advance the Group-wide integration process.
- To promote additional responsibility for executive development at the management level.
- To provide a uniform performance review for each employee throughout the Group and throughout the world.
c. Process
With its four core elements, motiv8 provides the necessary tools to evaluate and support each employee according to his or her abilities, performance and targets: First, you will show proof of your managerial ability. Second, we will discuss your career at Deutsche Post World Net. Third, we will plan your career with you. And, fourth, we will support you.
Highly valuable employees at Deutsche Post World Net have eight core competencies. As a basis of the performance-review session and the entire process, each person knows what is expected and how these expectations can be met.
Qualification area: business
- customer orientation
- business acumen
- cross-border thinking
Qualification area: leadership
- shaping directions
- constructive challenge
- building and leading teams
Qualification area: spirit
- building and managing partnerships
- commitment to excel
Anybody who shows that he or she is capable of exceeding these standards can become a leader. And that's what we're talking about. motiv8 thus becomes the foundation for the dialogue between employees and their supervisors. The more efficient the dialogue, the better the performance.
Through the annual performance-review sessions, we learn about your success in reaching your goals. But we also focus on the equally important question of how you got there. After all, you will be the one who determines your progress within the company. In an individual, constructive and honest dialogue at the end of the year, you and your supervisor will determine how successful you were in reaching your goals. The results are documented and discussed. Soon, they will provide a comprehensive overview of your potential within the company.
Your career at Deutsche Post World Net will be advanced on the basis of a personal development plan that will focus both on the manifold professional opportunities within the Group and the Group's requirements, and on your existing expertise and experience. Based on the requirements of the target position, the most effective measures will be selected and applied. But there is more to the process than seminars and management training programs. Learning can also be done on the job, allowing you to develop and apply your knowledge, abilities and experience directly.
d. Your added value
Deutsche Post World Net not only fosters the potential of its employees, but also gives each individual the opportunity to actively work on his or her career within our company.
You, too, should actively shape your career by identifying your strengths, developing your potential and assuming management responsibility. With a stimulating working environment that recognizes and encourages your individual performance, Deutsche Post World Net offers you the best career opportunities.
e. Work Life Balance
Business success is not measured on yields alone. A successful company must appreciate its surroundings and its environment, and assume responsibility for its employees. This includes the insight that life outside the workplace is just as stimulating as work itself.
Deutsche Post World Net supports this, among other things, with various part-time and "lifetime working hours" models. The benefits of a large corporation come into effect here, in particular in the personal demands employees make on their working life.
f. Your health matters
The health and safety of our employees pose one of the central challenges faced by a global logistics company. We define health according to the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and have built our health-management policies on three central elements: strategic health protection, health promotion, and occupational health and safety.
On a strategic level, we view health management as the systematic approach to optimizing our organization and processes. Healthy people are more innovative and creative, thereby contributing more to the company's success. We have therefore anchored promotion of our employees' physical and mental health within our Code of Conduct, and have outlined it in our Sustainability Report.
Our company doctors and occupational-safety specialists constitute the heart of our ISO 9001-certified occupational health and safety organization. On the level of health promotion and multifaceted occupational health, we combine management programs with employee initiatives and external networks. The objective is to introduce the issues to employees, awaken their interest and commitment, develop companywide know-how in health and occupational safety questions, and continually optimize our organization.
g. Taking your family on board
We want to ensure that our employees feel totally at home within our Group. That`s why we care about your family, too. Our flexible working schedules, for example, are part of our family promotion program. They make it easier for you to coordinate your professional and private needs.
But we offer your family even more than that: For example, we provide professional day care during work hours at some of our locations.
Our recreation program offers budget vacations for employees, including to exotic destinations. It targets families, in particular, and our resorts always welcome children.
With our Youth Exchange Program (YEP) we have introduced a particularly attractive opportunity for 15-18-year-olds: Children taking part in this student exchange program will spend four weeks with a host family, the family of a Deutsche Post World Net employee - for example in the UK, Brazil, Japan or the United States.
h. Your idea counts
We believe that the creativity and ideas of our employees are Deutsche Post World Net's biggest assets. Thanks to their know-how they ensure the long-term success of our company. Each of them is an expert in his or her area of expertise. Our local employees are best able to assess work processes and customer requirements.
That's why we allow them great freedom in shaping their work environment and doing their jobs.
Our employees are bursting with ideas for ways to improve. Nearly 100,000 suggestions for improvements per year help us optimize our work processes and maintain our competitiveness. Thanks to our ideas management system, inventive employees also profit financially from their ideas.
A study by the German Business Management Institute (Deutsches Institut für Betriebswirtschaft) awarded Deutsche Post World Net's ideas management system top grades in the services sector. That also ranks us among the leading companies across all sectors of the economy.