The global food service industry experienced a 17% drop in new job postings related to ecommerce in Q4 2023 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 15% decrease versus Q4 2022. Buy the report here.
Notably, Transportation and Material Moving Occupations jobs accounted for a 65% share of the global food service industry’s ecommerce-related total new job postings in Q4 2023, up 0.43% over the prior quarter.
Transportation and Material Moving Occupations drive ecommerce-related hiring activity
Transportation and Material Moving Occupations, with a share of 65%, emerged as the top ecommerce-related job roles within the food service industry in Q4 2023, with new job postings rising by 0.43% quarter-on-quarter. Management Occupations came in second with a share of 10% in Q4 2023, with new job postings dropping by 47% over the previous quarter.
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The other prominent ecommerce roles include Computer and Mathematical Occupations with a 4% share in Q4 2023, Business and Financial Operations Occupations with a 3% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in food service industry accounted for 85% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q4 2023 were Domino's Pizza, Legends Hospitality Management, AmRest Holdings, Yum! Brands, and Minor International. Together they accounted for a combined share of 85% of all ecommerce-related new jobs in the food service industry.
Domino's Pizza posted 482 ecommerce-related new jobs in Q4 2023, Legends Hospitality Management 50 jobs, AmRest Holdings 50 jobs, Yum! Brands 19 jobs, and Minor International 16 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with an 86.72% share of total new job postings, Q4 2023
The largest share of ecommerce-related new job postings in the food service industry in Q4 2023 was in the US with 86.72% followed by Poland (4.98%) and Thailand (1.66%). The share represented by the US was one percentage point lower than the 87.36% share it accounted for in Q3 2023.
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