Adidas, the maxihub for Southern and Eastern Europe in Mantua: 700 people wanted

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In Mantua, the maxi logistics hub that serves Adidas stores, retailers and e-commerce in 19 countries across southern and eastern Europe serves 700 people.

Candidates can be with or without experience, men, women, to be employed on all the tasks of the center where the high level of automation makes most of the jobs within everyone’s reach.

The research was initiated by Kuehne+Nagel, a multinational logistics and transport company, with the support of Manpower.

Adidas Campus South

The Adidas Campus South in Mantua is a new logistics center that extends over an area of ​​130 thousand square meters and, as a note explains, is structured in such a way as to break the mold and clichés of logistics, lightening workloads thanks to automation and flexibility. The Mantua hub, in addition to the cutting-edge technology it uses, is also characterized by its attention to environmental sustainability: it will in fact use energy coming from 100% renewable sources, LED lighting, processes for monitoring CO2, services of ecological mobility to reach the Campus and sustainable packaging solutions. Furthermore, those who work on the Campus will have access to a welfare and wellbeing plan which includes extra days for paternity leave, days to dedicate to volunteer activities, language courses, travel agreements, free consultancy for tax returns, medical insurance, discounts on more than a thousand products and services, agreements with gyms and swimming pools, online training plans, psychological support.

Rendering of the adidas Campus South in Mantua

The sfida of talent shortage

As Massimiliano Imbesi, Regional Manager of Manpower explains, «the implementation of a European-level logistics hub at the service of an important brand like Adidas poses many challenges, not least that of finding the people who will have to operate within such a structure. crucial. A challenge, the latter, with different complexities, also given the talent shortage that characterizes this historical moment. The collaboration with Kuehne+Nagel, therefore, in addition to establishing those processes aimed at searching for the best profiles, will aim on the one hand at the creation of career and training paths that can enable people to grow and develop their skills in an environment inclusive and attentive to people’s well-being, and on the other hand it will allow the company to continue to compete in a constantly evolving technological sector.”