Porsche plans to increase its labor force by about 24 percent to underpin its global growth ambitions.

About 5,000 employees will be hired by the company over the next five years, primarily outside its home market of Germany, said Thomas Edig, Porsche’s head of personnel, who added that the new jobs will be created in model development, production, sales and servicing.

Porsche has added about 8,400 jobs since 2010. Its work force totaled 21,100 people worldwide at the end of May.

While still adding jobs, the pace of hiring at Porsche will actually slow as the division balances sales and earnings gains, Edig said.

“We won’t continue to grow along the lines of the past four years, but we do need to expand on the personnel side,”

Porsche set a target to sell a record 200,000 cars in 2015 after adding the Macan compact SUV in April.

The Macan is Porsche’s fifth model, joining the 911 and Boxster sports cars, Cayenne SUV and four-door Panamera coupe in the lineup.

With Porsche’s hiring plans, “the key message is that they expect a significant growth over many years, not just because of the new products — the Macan — but also future expansion programs,” said Juergen Pieper, a Frankfurt-based analyst at Bankhaus Metzler.

“Research and development projects are going beyond Porsche’s own products, covering sports-car projects for the whole group” at Volkswagen.