Vantaggi
The opportunity to grab a substantial market share of the worldwide commercial food solutions market holds immense potential for the enterprise. Doing this well out of the gate would put the organization on the talent destination map in reality. If you find yourself in a positive micro-culture within the broader organization, there is genuine support, opportunity, and recognition.
Svantaggi
The company is attempting to play in a 21st-century world with leadership, strategy, and culture that had its heyday in the 1980s. Any real leadership authority and influence is largely confined to 30+ years-tenured legacy-institution India-native males who continue to operate in their own self-congratulatory bubble. Female representation at the top-level leadership for each of regions and P&L ownership of the businesses is practically non-existent. Despite doubling down on the most complex matrixed organizational structure ever, real strategic alignment remains a mythical unicorn. Those offering better ways of working or even calling out risks – based on years of leadership-level success elsewhere – are politely ghosted at best and overtly isolated and eventually pushed out at worst. The company’s inability after 2.5 years to move forward with its IPO is indicative of its hard-wired internal challenges, but also its shield preventing broader external exposure of its current state.