Pros

Del Monte Foods corporate headquarters is based in San Francisco, CA at 1 Market (across from the Ferry Building) in the historic Landmark building. It is across the street from the BART station.

It has a diverse portfolio of brands it sells and markets, including such flagship brands as: Del Monte, Fruit Naturals, Contadina, S&W, Milk-Bone, Meow Mix, Kibbles 'n Bits, Gravy Train, etc. Since their products are manufactured around the US, you will have the opportunity to visit lots of various manufacturing plants, retail customers, and R&D facilities.

As with most employers, the people you work with are what makes your work life tolerable. Del Monte Foods is no exception. Del Monte Foods does a good job by bringing in good people (down to earth, smart, etc) to work for them.

Cons

Senior Leadership needs to change (ie CEO/COO). They recently brought in a CMO to shake things up, but made it where he reports into COO, not the CEO. The new CMO is sharp but he will be challenged to change the status quo.

Del Monte Foods is a financially driven CPG company. Everyone in Marketing/Brand Management takes their orders from Finance. Del Monte Food's competitors are all marketing driven companies, and spend greater amounts of dollars on advertising/marketing (industry average is 5-7%, while Del Monte spends about 3-4% of gross revenues).

Others things that disagree with me:
Dress Policy: Business Casual (no jeans)
Vacation Benefits: 2 weeks (this is typical in the CPG world)
No discounts or freebies for Del Monte Foods products

Management Style is Reactive, not proactive. You will spend alot of time reacting to a situation, having to do alot of time sensitive reports, versus planning for a situation, having time to think strategically and collaborate ahead of time.

In addition, they have really bad processes in place; I wish they would spend a little money and maybe even consult an outside expert on a few process improvement initiatives in the areas of forecasting, demand planning, budgeting, recruiting, etc.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend some quality time with the people at the bottom who really run the company; empower them to make decisions; force employees to make rotations around the company in different functions