Great people and a lot of potential, spoiled by awful middle management - Recensione dipendente - Customer Marketing Executive presso Pernod Ricard

Too many bad apples that spoil the bunch, with a lot of them unfortunately in “Senior” or “Controller” roles due to their time in the business rather than actually having any managerial/leadership skills. The culture is very much being thrown in the deep end and you have to pick up all the loose threads that were left by your predecessor. If you are unfortunate enough to come into a role that was downgraded before you started, you will be expected to be paid far less but perform to same level of the previous person who was a higher salary grade and had years of experience within the business. Good luck if you have to work on anything that isn’t Grocery/on-trade or Spirits, because you will get little to no support from anyone else (manager included) who will help to the extent of saying “you need to be the champion for the category” over and over, which is all well and good if there is historic market/activation data saved down for your category, but again, if you are unfortunate enough to end up in my shoes, there is not. This is where it starts to get really fun. You cannot do your job effectively; you will somehow be expected to convince other members of the team to allocate you activation budget, despite having no historical activation, market, or retailer data, because it is not a priority for the business – you will also get some very vocal members of the team (including team leads) tell you (and everyone else in the office) that your customers cannot be trusted to execute activations and thus it is near impossible to acquire budget. As mentioned earlier, there are some bad apples in “Senior” positions within various teams, and if you are also unfortunate enough to get one of these as your line manager, you will be shamed for not performing, yet not be offered any support (yet somehow, it seems that “senior” members of the team have smaller account responsibility than everyone else, so seem to have an abundance of time to look for schools for their children or listen to music whilst doing not all that much). Your performance will be called into question, and you will be made to develop against ridiculously vague criteria within areas of the business you work in, which are not a priority e.g. not grocery and not spirits, and thus you will be offered no line manager/team lead support. Good luck if you report directly into a team lead, some of them are not at all visible, will not make themselves available to you or particularly listen to anything you say or how you feel. You will be treated like dirt the whole time you work there; your mental health will rapidly deteriorate due to the way you will be treated if you are in a role that has been fundamentally designed for you to fail. The pay is poor and they do not do pay reviews. Progression is in the form of more and more responsibility, with no pay rise or promotion Far too many instances where employees are treated badly, using backhanded shameful tactics to get people to leave or stay e.g. will convince you to turn down other opportunities in the promise of a promotion that never happens, promises of pay reviews that never happen, finally promoting deserving people but pay barely anything more. Diversity is a foreign concept, you can count on two hands the amount of people in the company that are not white, straight, or middle class.