Amazon to create thousands of jobs in UK and Europe in 2016
Amazon has revealed that it created 10,000 new jobs at the company across Europe in 2015 and has announced plans to create several thousand more in Europe in 2016.
The online retail giant currently employs over 40,000 people across Europe. The 10,000 new permanent roles added in 2015 is the most Amazon has created in a single year in Europe and marks a 50% increase over 2014.
In 2016, the company will invest in the expansion of its European fulfilment network, increase EU-based research and development, and build new infrastructure to support its growing cloud-computing business.
Xavier Garambois, vice president, Amazon EU Retail, said: “We are seeing stronger demand than ever from our customers all across Europe, and we see lots more opportunity across Amazon’s businesses to invent and invest for the future. We created over 10,000 new jobs in 2015 and plan to create several thousand more in 2016 at all education, experience and skill levels, from speech and linguistic scientists to digital media experts to fulfilment centre and customer service associates.”
Amazon said it has invested over €15 billion since 2010 on infrastructure and operations in Europe. The company operates a pan EU business with over 80 corporate offices, fulfilment centres, seller and customer service centres, R&D centres, and Amazon Web Services datacentre regions. The company recently announced new investments in London for a new UK head office and a new datacentre region for AWS customers. The UK datacentre region is in addition to the existing AWS datacenter regions in Frankfurt and in Dublin.
Amazon is also hiring more computer scientists and software development engineers across its European network of 12 research and development centres.
“We are proud to offer great jobs for people who already have the skills we’re looking for and to help develop people who want to add new skills through our innovative programs like Career Choice,” said Roy Perticucci, vice president, Amazon EU Operations. “We’re planning to add thousands of new jobs in all areas across our European fulfilment network in 2016 as we ramp up to meet increased demand from customers and invent in new areas.”
