Management needs changing - Product Management Elsevier Employee Review

1.0
17 Mar 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of good people in the ranks of the company. Good overall vision and strategy.

Cons

Culture is very focused on churning out hundreds of strategy presentations in ever increasing granularity. Year on year there is a need to produce new ideas, but in the end little investment is forthcoming and most are scrapped. Repeated sales re-organisations have led to a lack of continuity and ability to sell our more complex product offerings. In eCommerce and marketing we lag sorely behind competition. The second layer of management under Mobed is shaky at best and under confident.

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Industry leader Great benefits Incentive trips Invests heavily in its employees

Cons

Processes can be burdensome and clunky at times

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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 June 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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