Mixed Bag - Senior Category Manager Rolls-Royce Employee Review

3.0
6 Oct 2018
Recommend
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Pros

- good benefits and relatively good salary for the region. Strong union support. - some interesting projects to get involved in. Rolls-Royce is undergoing a huge re-structure and is removing its legacy ways of working. - intelligent and capable peers to work with - strong reputation and brand for your CV - diverse workforce

Cons

- In contrast to its peers, Rolls-Royce has a poor view of learning and development of its employees. In 2 years, my colleagues and I have been rebuffed for every training request on non-business grounds. - Low morale and disengaged employees due to major company restructure and 4500 job cuts in 2018 - top-heavy management structure and heavily process driven, mean you spend 70-90% of your time dealing with tactical work and bureaucracy, not what you were employed to do. This infringes on work-life balance because the important work needs to be done in your own time! - Many dysfunctional departments, such as IT , Finance and Procurement where there is a lack of transparency and accountability. It is easy to hide in this large organisation - hopefully the restructure will change this. - I would question the reality of ethical practices. The yearly published 'Code of Conduct' is quickly becoming lip service. I have seen 3 people in my department bullied and forced out of their jobs by a toxic manager. The ethics line, HR and senior management have purposefully ignored pleas for help. - Slow career progression. If you are looking for a quiet job where you will not be challenged. aren't interested in growth and want a regular pay-cheque, this is a good place to work.

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