INCLUSION & RESPECT AT FERRERO
At Ferrero, we believe that what makes you unique, makes us great. Our strength lies in the diverse talents, perspectives, and passions of our people. Everyone contributes something irreplaceable. We celebrate these differences as the driving force behind our creativity, our inclusive culture, and our ability to craft products loved across generations.
We are proud to care - both for the people who work with us and for the communities we serve around the world. This deep sense of care fuels everything we do: from how we nurture personal and professional growth, to how we innovate with integrity and responsibility.
Our products are as unique as the people who make them. It’s through the combination of our individual strengths and shared values that we continue to deliver quality, joy, and delight in every bite. By empowering each person to bring their best self to Ferrero, we ensure that everyone can succeed—and that together, we create something truly exceptional.
“Ferrero is operating in an increasingly complex and competitive market. To continue to win, we must leverage the diversity of our teams to bring joy to each and every one of our consumers. Simply put, we cannot fully reach and delight our diverse consumers unless we think and act like they do.”
Michael Lindsey, Chief Business Officer, Ferrero North America.
Our strategy
At Ferrero, our Inclusion & Respect strategy focuses on four focus areas:
Data & Dimensions: we use data to understand the experiences of our colleagues and have a global set of dimensions that creates consistency across the business.
People Processes: we nurture inclusion and respect in our culture, developing competence and capability across the employee life cycle.
Communications & Engagement: we communicate consistently on inclusion and respect and can identify where there are gaps to address in different groups’ engagement.
Business Consistency: we can translate the principles of inclusion and respect into every brand in the Group.
Our dimensions
Our global dimensions highlight aspects of individual identity that may be considered as part of our Inclusion & Respect strategy. The dimensions have been designed in order to create global consistency while being inclusive of local needs and realities.
Our Team
At Ferrero, the Inclusion & Respect strategy is driven by our People Experience team. It involves:
- A Global Manager focused on Inclusion & Respect
- A North America Manager focused on Inclusion & Respect
- A North America Inclusion Council made up of employees from different functions, locations, and backgrounds
- Allyship Groups, also known as Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Senior leaders throughout the company serving as Executive Sponsors to our Inclusion Council and Allyship Groups
Inclusion in our Workplace
We strongly believe in the power of community.
Our Allyship Groups provide an open space for all employees across our organization to connect, support, and empower each other while also supporting our goal of cultivating an inclusive work environment.
We are continuing to grow our Allyship Group Program and currently offer:
- Women+ Allyship Group
- Latino+ Allyship Group
- Black Allyship Group
- Asian & Pacific Islander Allyship Group
- Abilities Allyship Group
- Pride Allyship Group
Meet the partners that help us create change
NextUp
NextUp is an organization with a mission to advance all women, grow business, and transform workplaces through the power of community. The organization brings together women and allies across North America offering programs, events, research, and assessments that inspire growth, elevating today’s leaders and creating tomorrow’s.
Catalyst
Catalyst is a global nonprofit that helps organizations build workplaces that work for women. Through original, evidence-based research; experiential learning; and an extensive library of world-class resources, Catalyst helps organizations increase awareness, build inclusive leadership skills and driving organizational change.
Ferrero is a founding organization in the Catalyst community Measuring for Change and is committed to using the agreed Key Performance Indicators to measure our progress in DEI.
Country Navigator
Country Navigator (CN) is the world's leading cross-cultural, online platform that helps improve cultural intelligence. Through their cultural profile assessments, inclusion training, and country resources, Ferrero employees are taught the intercultural competencies crucial to working successfully in an international workforce.
Business Disability Forum
Business Disability Forum (BDF) is a not-for-profit membership organization that works with businesses to create a disability-smart world.
The partnership supports Ferrero by sharing best practices from BDF’s network of organizations and through access to their specialist advice on recruiting, retaining disabled employees, and creating a barrier-free organization.
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