Crumbling under horrendous leadership - werkgeversreview Manager bij GSMA

Poor, disorganized and disinterested leadership from the top down. The actual doers are not included in any strategy meetings or considered in any long term planning. You have no voice unless you’re a department head. No matter how much good work you do, how much initiative you take, or how talented you are. The company has no means of employee recognition, and promotions or expansions of responsibility are a pipe dream. Good luck to you if you don’t work in the London office, as you’ll be marginalized and it’ll be automatically assumed that you are lazy and incompetent. Despite the fact that all of the events were put together by teams outside of London. Regardless, the entire marketing department has been restructured to be centralized out of London, eliminating dozens of loyal and talented people elsewhere as they hit the reset button under a new leader and her hand-picked inner circle (now all based there). — marketing leadership used to be US based —- Those teams that actually put together the mobile industry’s largest events? They no longer exist. If you’re an event planning professional, best look elsewhere. This used to be a fun place to work, with great colleagues and benefits, exciting travel opportunities, and excellent work/life balance, but the past 18 months have seen all of that disappear under disorganized and paranoid leadership, massive turnover, budget cuts, restrictions of work from home days, and, once the pandemic hit, huge financial losses as they realized the entire company is funded by a single event (which was cancelled this year). I see no reason to believe this company will exist in its current form in a year’s time, and can not recommend anyone consider working here in any department - especially not marketing or event operations. Those departments, unfortunately, are now dead. Look to its member companies and other tech firms if you’re wanting to break into the industry. There’s no future here.