You are a resource, not a person - Supply Planning Manager BAT Employee Review

1.0
27 Jun 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Money, perks, pension, bonus and the food in the canteen

Cons

Stifled by inflexible frameworks, processes and bureacracy, a victim of it's own success in terms of size versus efficiency, like turning an oil tanker rather than a speedboat, cash rich and with a lack of experience and application of cost saving and genuine continuous improvement as a result. Offshore HR resulting in lack of employee support accessibility, a ticket instead of a phone call left you waiting weeks for a response to basic enquiries. Promotion is typically based on in-role ability, having a 'sponsor' which is recommended as a career advancement technique and tenure, NOT managerial capability, therefore many people managers are not, and people are commonly poor;y treated as a result. Undoubtedly the most toxic working environment I have encountered in my career.

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5.0
2 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Complete autonomy with schedule which provides for a nice balance between work and personal life - Impact people who are trying to grow their careers - Company car and free* gas is pretty nice

Cons

- Autonomy & freedom does leave time where you have to be self-motivated to keep going and push forward

2.0
11 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very strong compensation package, lots of very nice genuine people on the Reynolds US side

Cons

Toxic, politically charged environment, cliques of people each trying to place their own people in roles. A singular mis-trust and dislike of "outside" people who are brought in to move the company forward but the existing people who have worked there for years and years are all trying to protect and sustain their own roles and their own cliques. All show and pretty presentations but no meaningful, meaty strategy

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