Opportunities to develop your career based on Mutuality. - Senior Scientist Mars Employee Review

4.0
17 Jun 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Company, provides significant opportunities to learn and grow. Changes line managers frequently (you will have a new boss every few years, this a good thing), merit is based on what you do and how you do it. Freedom to develop and implement systems in a team environment. Challenging and rewarding work. You create a career development plan based on your requirements, management does well to facilitate opportunities to achieve your goals and the company goals. Expect open and honest feedback, both good and bad, listening well and being customer centric is essential. Flexible working hours and working remotely helps to manage work-life balance.

Cons

Very large, complex, and dynamic structure under constant people and systems change. You have to quickly (and often) evaluate and understand what’s expected of you in your role and able to communicate well with many different teammates and management, Ambiguity and standing alone are common; you are expected to learn, propose, and deliver structured training in new areas to support yourself and your teams. If you don’t adapt well and constantly realign your career goals with your manager and team, you will probably struggle. Workload is often unequally distributed throughout a team; some associates struggle, while others coast...both for long periods of time without correction.

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3.0
2 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- 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
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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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