Workforce and diversity

A growing Group with talented People

The human capital of the company

Human capital represents the most important strategic wealth for Brembo, which firmly believes that the knowledge and skills of each and every one constitute the real competitive advantage behind the Group’s ability to innovate and pursue excellence when manufacturing all its products. For this reason, Brembo, in line with its strategy’s pillars, promotes the growth, development and continual enhancement of its employees’ skills. Today, more than 11,000 people work for Brembo every day with dedication and passion.

Diversity

Diversity is a strength for a global Company like Brembo, which operates and is constantly confronted with very diverse situations from the economic and cultural point of view. Every day Brembo is committed to promoting an inclusive environment that ensures people’s sense of belonging and encourages them to feel they are leading characters in the Group’s success, fostering a culture of diversity from the moment they are hired and respecting the points of view, voices, individualities and special qualities of each person.

Brembo considers diversity as a priority in its approach in people management. This translates in the application and respect of codes and internal policies, as well as the promotion of special training paths included in the broader context of the Group’s training offer dedicated to management and employees. The Group is committed to making a concrete contribution in this area, making people aware through a training offer focused on enhancing the level of knowledge and understanding of diversity themes.

With reference to the protection of diversity and respect for people and workers’ human rights, Brembo has formalised, in addition to the provisions set out in the Group’s Code of Ethics, the Code of Basic Working Conditions and the Policy on Non Discrimination and Diversity.

Training

For Brembo, being able to rely on competent trained people means having the measure of the value that each employee personally contributes to achieving the common goals. For this reason, the development of talent in the different geographical areas and professional families, the growth of potential and enhancement of its employees’ skills are aspects of fundamental importance for the Group that it undertakes to guarantee through training and continual professional growth, always in keeping with the company’s values and strategy. Moreover, for Brembo it is essential to promote the ability to experiment and innovate, as well as the development of a strong tension to the future, so as that its People are able to anticipate market trends, promote continual product and service innovation and offer customers high-quality solutions.

To ensure an adequate response to the training needs of the company’s entire workforce, the Group has therefore designed a well-structured training offer targeted at the different professional families with the aim of involving all the levels inclusively whilst, at the same time, bearing in mind their specific needs. Lastly, employees are given access to a number of specific tools (individual or Group coaching paths), as well as personal support programmes to complement the training and development offer.

Due to the worldwide pandemic emergency, 2020 saw classroom training opportunities slow down, if not come to an actual halt in the most critical months. Despite this, Brembo did not stop and worked to make online training increasingly accessible, also investing in Knowledge Management and Train the Trainer activities for the enhancement of online teaching.

Brembo Academy

The Brembo Academy of Brembo S.p.A. was set up to promote the invaluable know-how developed by the various offices and teams in Brembo companies around the world. This authentic corporate training school, with UNI EN ISO:9001 quality certification, draws also upon the knowledge of teachers from within the company, pursuing the objective of enabling structured sharing of Brembo expertise across the Group.

Awards for innovative idea

The contribution to innovation and the spirit of collaboration within the Group are important values for Brembo which enhances the participation of all its collaborators, by rewarding ideas that enable major improvements and progress to be made in terms of quality, process or product innovation, cost reduction, increased productivity and simplified processes.

Brembo Sustainability Awards

The Sustainability Awards contest was established to promote among employees ideas and projects connected to the aspects of sustainability in all areas of the company organization. There are 6 themes foreseen by the contest: these are connected to ISO 26000 and the Sustainable Development Goals: people, fair operating practices, governance, environment, business partner and community involvement and development.

Brembo Excellence Awards

Every year Brembo uses the Excellence Awards Brembo to reward the new solutions presented by Group employees. Said awards are structured as follows:

• Best Idea, which promotes ideas for improvement in the production and office area;

• Best Improvement Plant and Best in Class Plant, which respectively reward the plants that have produced the most significant improvements and the best performances in terms of quality, production system efficiency and human resources organisation within the plant.

Brembo Innovation Awards

The Innovation Awards recognise the best ideas relating to the following business areas:

• Product;

• Systems production process;

• Disc production process.