Lots of potential--no discipline, completely lacking external focus or perspective - werkgeversreview Senior Associate Brand Manager bij Mars

2,0
12 sep 2012
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5 Principles Great brands Private ownership Company Pension Entrepreneurial environment Egalitarian work environment Competitive pay and benefits Amazing hometown (Nashville, TN) Global workforce (lots of cross-pollination from global worksites) Big focus on employee engagement (nearly 100% gallup survey participation) Global employee recognition programs You can bring dogs to work

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Leadership is well intentioned, but completely out of touch Suburban office location with plans on moving 30 miles outside of town Lack of community involvement with employees (work, go home, repeat) Lack of community involvement from the corporation (not engaged in the Nashville community at all) There's a designated "cry room" where they take people before they fire them and walk them out without warning. Every associate knows someone who got axed because it happens far too often Unable to execute strategies that win in the market No bonus in the last two years Promotions never happen - 50% of the office stays in the same role virtually forever if they keep their heads down Tough place for young people, gays, women or minorities - very old school environment, not much technology, terrible systems, antiquated corporate policies haven't been updated since the mid 2000's

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5,0
27 mei 2026
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Great environments and working near chocolates factory.

Minpunten

No cons from me !

3,0
2 jan 2026
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Pluspunten

- Company car (fuel card, insurance, etc) - Good benefits - Great brand exposure/understanding of CPG sales at the retail level - Annual sales meeting is fun, but exhausting - Simple job

Minpunten

- Micromanaged by leadership (EVERYTHING is tracked) - Extremely repetitive work (not much freedom in creating your schedule, same tasks over and over, etc.) - Dealing with retail management. If you don't have respectful store managers, good luck. A lot of your KPI's are out of your control and your experience relies on your store. - As DOZENS of other people have said, this is a merchandising job - not sales. You are responsible for placing product on the sales floor after consulting with the store (basically asking management who only views you as free manual labor). There is no commission/incentive for producing positive results. - SEASONS: this is the reason why you have this job if you're working with the Walmart channel. You have unrealistic expectations set from leadership to pack out hundreds of heavy cases of candy each holiday season after begging store management for space to place it. Most of the stores' back rooms are a complete mess and a lot of your product is inaccessible. Long days are expected with no additional pay. - Work/life balance: It is frowned upon to work the bare minimum of 40 hours/week. Your stores get backed up while you're on PTO. Overall: an okay role This isn't a bad job by any means, you just need to know what the role entails before taking this job. You need to relocate for any future opportunities within the company.

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