Mercado Libre to create 10,100 new jobs in Mexico this year

Latin American e-commerce elephantine Mercado Libre volition make 10,100 jobs successful Mexico this year, bringing its full workforce to 35,800 employees, the company’s Chief People Officer Sebastián Fernández Silva announced connected Tuesday. 

The quality follows a March announcement from Mercado Libre that it plans to invest US $3.4 cardinal successful Mexico this year. 

Mercado Libre has the ambitious program of expanding its workforce arsenic it incorporates AI into its operations. (Mercado Libra/Faccebook

“With the extremity of continuing to grow our business, this twelvemonth we volition make 28,000 caller jobs and put US $13.2 cardinal successful the (Latin American) region, 36% much than successful 2024,” said Fernández. 

This volition bring the full fig of employees successful the portion to astir 112,000. Most caller jobs volition beryllium successful logistics, with 21,700 caller positions, and exertion with 3,300 jobs. 

The workforce maturation “will let america to proceed expanding our logistics web to marque shipments faster and cheaper,” Fernández said. “It besides allows america to proceed processing what we bash with exertion and products to proceed revolutionizing the mode radical buy, advertise, sell, pay, finance, and vessel passim the region.”

Mercado Libre claims to beryllium the main root of income for 1.8 cardinal families crossed Latin America and supports an estimated 234,000 indirect jobs successful the countries wherever it operates. 

The Uruguay-based tech institution was founded successful Argentina successful 1999 and has grown to go a large e-commerce powerfulness successful Latin America, competing with the likes of Amazon. 

The institution operates successful 18 countries and posted grounds gross and profits past year, with a nett turnover of $21 cardinal and a gross income measurement of implicit $51.5 billion. It has grown astatine an yearly complaint of 30% for much than 2 decades. 

According to Fernández, Mercado Libre volition proceed to prosecute caller unit adjacent arsenic it incorporates artificial quality and different integer technologies into its operations. He  said that robots are not replacing radical but alternatively are helping to destruct physically strenuous tasks for employees. 

The institution says it is committed to hiring a divers workforce. Mercado Libre’s workforce is made up of astir 46% women, with a 28% pistillate C-suite level. The mean property of its employees is 30 years old. 

Almost fractional of Mercado Libre’s 2025 investments volition beryllium spent successful Brazil, astir $6.2 billion, with the instauration of 13,800 caller jobs. Brazil is the company’s largest market, contributing astir 55% of its revenue. 

In addition, 2,300 jobs volition beryllium created successful Argentina, 900 successful Chile, 800 successful Colombia and 60 successful Uruguay. 

With reports from Amexi, El Financiero and Forbes México