Diversity issues and terrible business practices - Sales Mars Employee Review

1.0
Aug 1, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fix this company, you're losing money and talented minority associates!

Cons

They have such diversity issues here, good minority associates get passed over constantly or have a glass ceiling put over them. Really hard to advance your career here. Also the business is ran like someone from the 80s teleported to 2020....Full of BS, buzzwords, lack of diversity moving up, bad decisions, chasing trends, not being smart, constantly doing reorgs, and the place is run off of popularity and mobility not talent!

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Mars Response
5y
Hello and thank you for your review of Mars. We appreciate all feedback, both positive and constructive. Our decision-making process is always guided by our Five Principles to ensure each of our Associates has fair opportunities - ensuring our teams are as diverse and as inclusive as possible. We're always looking at ways to improve and make our processes more transparent, so we'll make sure to pass on your comments to the relevant teams. Thank you again for your review.

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- 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

Cons

- 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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Mars Response
5mo
Thank you for taking the time to write your review. We’re sorry to hear your experience with us has not been positive. We aim to support our Associates in every way throughout their time with us and are committed to their wellbeing and development. Please reach out to the independent, confidential team at ombudsman@effem.com, and we look forward to discussing this further.
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