The Future Factory Reviews

The job can become monotonous. The goal is to get new business meetings not win new business which for some takes pressure off but does ultimately limit learning when it comes to the other sides of new biz. Most agencies future factory work with are brilliant but some are better than others. They will try and match you with those that inspire you and might be a good fit for your interest and skill set but also some sells are harder than others. This might make getting bonus harder but in the long run will set you up for success. If you can learn how to extract value from a weak proposition and find good common ground/ overlaps with your prospects you will do well regardless. The job when it’s hard becomes analytical and can be creative and strategic.

Limited scope of the business development/new business process, the job focuses solely on lead generation for agencies at which point you hand over leads to your agency to continue the process. Can be monotonous if you don’t enjoy a sales/target-driven role, and I don’t think there is much to be learned beyond a year in the role. Pay is well below the industry standard and senior management have no interest in addressing it. At one point this was going to be addressed by moving the company to an employee-owned model where all employees would own shares in the company and receive financial benefit this way, but this never happened and the company was instead sold to a competitor. Turnover is atrocious and completely unsustainable, with roughly 4 people leaving the company each month during my time here. This takes it’s toll on overall company morale, as well as the team having to train new people each month (while doing the AM job), and management having to constantly explain to their agencies why they have no consistent AM on their account. Management doesn’t seem to take an interest when team members are clearly struggling, letting great team members leave and only offering solutions when it’s too little, too late. As other reviews have mentioned there is an ‘inner circle’ that has developed and it does make people feel left out if they’re not included. Management meetings are not productive and feel more like an opportunity to complain about your AMs rather than an opportunity for constructive solutions.