Amway jobs: Supporting Independent Business Owners

One of the benefits of owning your own Amway™ business is that Amway Independent Business Owners don’t have many of the expensive startup costs associated with other types of entrepreneurship like product research and development, manufacturing, warehousing, distribution or paying for a brick and mortar location.

That begs the question: Who is handling those tasks for the 1 million IBOs across the world who sell Amway’s high quality nutrition, fitness, beauty and home products to customers to earn a little extra each month? Amway’s success depends on those hardworking IBOs, but who do those IBOs depend on?

There are large teams of farmers, scientists, engineers, manufacturers, educators and business experts working at Amway behind the scenes to ensure IBOs have the latest innovations in scientifically backed products and solutions to offer customers as well as the training and digital tools needed to run a successful business.

More than 14,000 people across the globe (including 3,300 in the U.S.) have Amway careers that help IBOs build their own businesses through product research and development, manufacturing, warehousing, distribution and training.

“We’re a collective team with shared goals,” said Calvin Ha, a senior project manager who’s been with Amway for 14 years. “We’re passionate about empowering IBO success and helping people live better, healthier lives through opportunity and innovation.”

Let’s take a closer look at some of those Amway jobs and careers.

Innovation and Science

Over 640 people have Amway jobs in the Innovation and Science Division working to create or improve the variety of health and wellbeing products that IBOs sell to customers. It consists of scientists, engineers and technical professionals who collectively hold more than 200 advanced degrees. They work at any of the 75 research labs across 11 locations on pioneering product development, groundbreaking industry collaborations and rigid quality assurance.

“When you’re working for a company that is constantly striving to stay ahead, what happens is you attract the best scientists in the world who come in and figure out what it is that’s needed and what can really help people live better lives,” said Patricia Sundman, manager of customer service training and quality assurance who has worked in various departments over her 17-year Amway career.

Organic farming

Did you know that Amway owns and operates nearly 6,000 acres of certified organic farmland to grow botanicals that are used in Nutrilite™, Artistry™ and personal care products? As a matter of fact, Nutrilite is the first and only global vitamin and dietary supplement brand with a USDA organic product line to grow, harvest and process plants on their very own certified organic farms.*

That means many people working at Amway are actually farmers using sustainable and regenerative farming methods to plant seeds, pull weeds, create compost, apply chemical-free fertilizers and pest controls as well as harvest and process crops at Nutrilite certified organic farms in Brazil, Mexico and the United States. Many members of Amway’s Innovation and Science Division are also based at the farms conducting research on the best seeds and plants to be used in various products.

“When you see a Nutrilite product, you know it has so much depth to it,” said Darwin Hintz, farm technology manager at Nutrilite Trout Lake East Farm in Washington State. “There’s a whole chain of people making it what it is—including everyone that works on the farm.”

Manufacturing, packaging and supply chain

That chain of people also includes everyone on the manufacturing, packaging and distribution teams working to ensure Amway products are of the highest quality and that they safely arrive at customers’ doors.

Amway has six manufacturing sites across the world, including more than 670,000 square feet of manufacturing space across three U.S. locations. Thanks to those sites, 70% of Amway products sold in the U.S. are American made. Amway has invested $300 million in global manufacturing over the past 10 years and plans an additional $52 million projected over the next three years.

Whether people are mixing product ingredients, running tablet-making machines, monitoring the filling of bottles or managing the warehouse where products are stored before shipping, they’re all playing a key role in supporting Amway Independent Business Owners. And they’re all documenting their work along the way to ensure that each product is traceable all the way back to the farm where the botanicals were grown.

Amway reviews from employees: ‘This is a community’

Amway countries can be found on every continent except Antarctica – it’s the number one direct selling company in the world, operating in more than 100 countries and territories. That means that Amway jobs and careers can be found all over the world and in many different cultures. But the spirit of Amway always stays the same.

“What makes Amway so connected across the globe all comes back to our values: freedom, family, hope and reward,” said Oliva DeVos Griffioen, a talent development specialist at Amway headquarters in Ada, Michigan. “These are things that resonate across countries, across cultures. So it doesn’t matter if you’re here in Ada or you’re across the world. You have that sense of home.”

Amway employees feel that connection, whether they’re working with someone face to face or on a video call with someone on the other side of the world.

“It’s a diverse group of people. They’re very welcoming, they’re friendly, they’re one of the reasons why I come into work every day,” Ha said. “This is always considered my second family. The people here have always made me feel like a team member. We’re always working together to achieve one goal.”

Sundman said when you work for a company that cares about the core of you and you feel supported and cared for by your colleagues, you are more likely to want to stay long term, and that’s how she feels about working at Amway. “This is a community,” she said. “It really does feel like coming home.”

Do you want to learn more about becoming part of the Amway family? See available jobs on the Amway jobs site. And to learn more about becoming an Amway Independent Business Owner, visit the Start a Business page.

*Source: GlobalData; https://gdretail.net/amway-claims