Many development opportunities - Operations Manager Elsevier Employee Review

4.0
4 May 2021
Recommend
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Pros

* Lots of personal development opportunities as long as you don't expect them to turn up automatically, you have to actively seek them out and leverage your network. * Great work-life balance; Strong focus on Employee Engagement and Wellbeing, Diversity & Inclusion. * Lovely and supportive colleagues in an international working environment. * Chance to work on exciting new technologies as the company is going through a Digital Transformation * Easy commute; Station Sloterdijk and busses around the corner of the office. * Chance to see other parts of the world, as quite a few jobs require travel at some point (post corona ;-))

Cons

* Difficult to negotiate any significant salary increase beyond the yearly default step; once you've been slotted into a scale (very intransparant process and different per team and manager, it seems) it can be very hard to ever move up a scale. * Decision processes move ever so slowly (big corporate). * Legacy organisational structures hamper efficient project management. * Increasing pressure on existing resources to manage daily work AND strategic alignment activities.

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Elsevier Response
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Thank you for this balanced and thoughtful review. We're glad to hear that our benefits and investment in people are making a positive impact, those are commitments we take seriously. On the process feedback: Leadership is actively reviewing operational workflows, and the advice to listen more closely to employee feedback is something we're holding ourselves accountable to. If you're open to it, we'd encourage you to bring specific examples forward through your team or people and culture contacts. Change is most effective when it's grounded in the real experiences of the people doing the work, and that means you. Feel free to reach out to us at elseviergdrev@elsevier.com to provide more information Thank you for staying engaged and for caring enough to share this. It matters.
4.0
20 Jun 2026
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Pros

-Great company -Team has talented, experienced account managers and product experts who know the territory well

Cons

West team management is heavy on micromanagement and sets unrealistic territory targets without rep input — high turnover, and long tenure in company seems to shield this manager from accountability and growth

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