William Grant & Sons Employee Reviews about "pay"

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Very far from anything except itself, projects require individual effort to remain interesting and more budget required to try new ideas.

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Very less pay compare to the industry standard Heavy work load Low work life balance

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Nothing major. Maybe a staff canteen would be worthwhile.

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The glint of an amazing job can be dulled very quickly at WGS. Often times, they (Corporate WGS- Scotland, more specifically Leaders at SBP in the Packaging Supply Chain Team) are late on extending/conferring promotions, raises, adoption of new ideas, and just general appreciation for the work being done. Culturally, there are 'token' members throughout the organization to spread the Gospel that WGS as a whole is Inclusive. The US accounts for the majority of the inclusiveness. However, throughout the organization, the inclusion of 'thought diversity' is scarce and even frowned upon/shunned. Don't go in with any ideas of your own. If the Senior leadership team didn't think of it, they don't want to hear about it. Long term career wise: get in, get your experiences, work on your talent development, and get out. Don't expect average pay in the US Ops team.

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Terrible pay and rewards Poor internal progression

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Inconsistent company policies across different departments. Lack of pay reviews and opportunity for career progression

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A good company to work for depending on the department you are in. As far as advancement goes its a house of cards. Political and inner circle cliques.

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Highly toxic environment now fully dominated by ex Diageo failed leaders. Brand and Marketing managers are considered expendables at the service of the career development of their directors. Talent development and D&I agendas are a total joke, don't be fooled by what they tell you during recruitment: women, non native English speakers and people of colour have no space whatsoever, except for rare tokenism acts. Gender pay gap is widening instead of improving. No real focus on strategy, it's a constant fight between global/regional/local teams to secure 'quick wins' and get the loudest, most influential director promoted. If you don't work on Glenfiddich or Hendrick's your brand won't get any attention. No real insights / data backing of projects. Constant reinvention of processes, rules, structures, markets cannot keep up and have stopped caring. NPD teams are great but they are ridiculously understaffed, underpaid and the time to market is so slow that most competitors (even small companies) manage to launch the same concepts before them. However it's not bad for everyone. There is a clear preference to promote candidates that tick at least one of the following boxes, the more you can tick, the higher you'll go: 1. Male 2. White 3. English / Australian 4. Ex Diageo / Pernod 5. friend of the CMO

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Low pay wages compared to industry standards.

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I can only speak as a freelancer, my only complaint would be that I want to work more!