3M UK Reviews

Pros

Ability to move around compan nd experience different roles. Gain Experience.

Cons

Poor compensation as compared with market...

Advice to Senior Management

Vital few - understand who they are in the organisation as well as what they are....

Pros

- good balance of life/work
- flexi work (core hour 10 to 3)
- nice people
- free parking

Cons

- slow slow slow in everything
- no budget for training/education prepare for DIY from Day1
- career path depends on your boss/mgr retirement

Advice to Senior Management

make ECDP work as it should be

Pros

BIg varied company - potential to work in a number of different businesses. Dedicated people, many of whom have been there a long time. Good external reputation

Cons

Sales focused - no real idea about marketing. Spent a lot of money in the last couple of years developing a marketing excellence programme, but haven't had the guts to follow it through. Obsessed with detail and data, but won't spend the money on customer research to find out what customers really want. Very technology and manufacturing focused.
Low morale amongst marketers who feel undervalued and unable to utilise their skills, and sick of the short term obsession with intricate financial detail. There is a tendency to trust 'the system' rather than the knowledge and experience of the marketers.

Advice to Senior Management

Implement the marketing excellence programme, and listen to your customers in all businesses, especially the consumer facing ones.
Take a longer term view on marketing spend - acept that some programmes will not deliver in the same financial year.
Put in place the systems and resopurces to actually allow your marketers to measure the success of their programmes - hard sales numbers are very important, but so are local brand strengths and perceptions.
Launch products, instead of just letting them escape
Allow sales and marketing to work together - the current structures just line up fights
Let us meet and share best practices with our International colleagues - and then credit us with having the knowledge to understand our own markets and the ability to identify what is appropriate for our customers.
Live the mantra - really 'put the customer at the heart of everything that we do' all the way through the organisation, and give us the support to do this.

Pros

great people work at this company who are very commited to the job. Not a great turnover in staff which shows that they are OK to work with.great company, very diverse job opportunities if you live near Head Office in London.

Cons

Salary not reflective of the amount of work em-ployees put in to career, bonus structure has very recently changed- negatively I might add. Staff moral very poor with external sales people as they are the ones who are suffering from poor bonus.

Advice to Senior Management

Seriously look at bonus structure to keep the best people

Pros

Good Building, relaxed atmoshpere. Cheap Gym on site. Flexible working hours. Huge company means larger chance of career progression as opposed to smaller firms.

Cons

Very poor rates of pay compared to other companies in area. Keeping employees on temporary contract for years causes anxiety and doesn't makes good hardworking employees look elswhere for employment. Training given is bad and poorly organised.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop being over cautious on head counts and give the "So called" temporary staff permanent contracts. Pay us what we're worth.