Vantaggi
Exposure to a global brand. Dealership teams are super hard working and dedicated. Amazing ppl to work with.
Svantaggi
'the Volvo way' is nothing more than lip service. They don't care about you and regularly leverage payroll as a revenue saving device - meaning when the industry takes a downturn, instead of getting creative, plugging leaky buckets and improving the systems that are revenue generating, they panic and look for where they can cut costs fast - by cutting their people. In my experience, it didn't matter that I sacrificed family and personal time because I believed my managers who told me I was on a career journey (a senior VP told me to my face 'now you've reached 12months, you'll never leave - no one ever does'), it didn't matter that I took a 10K pay cut to take this job because I believed in their values and their mission, it didn't matter that I built a trust narrative with customers that directly resulted in improved sales opportunities, it didn't matter that my work won them international awards, it didn't matter how good (or how bad for that matter) I was at my job - when it came down to it, all that mattered was how much my salary was costing them.