Account Manager - Anonymous employee Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

4.0
6 Oct 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Working on the Product Finishes side held the greatest success in moving up and learning the B2B world. Starting as an MTP and moving up to operations manager and account manager allows you to grasp a great amount experience that is valuable anywhere. Incentives are great (when budgets are not corrected in September). Pay is good and the training that they give outside of their internal training, such as negotiation is priceless.

Cons

In the end, this company is great compared to most large fortune 500's. You work long hours, but your results can get you promoted. The largest con that I saw was that if you wanted to stay in a particular area, that it would be career ending. It was expected that you would move around to fill other areas. Just because you are the operations manager of a particular facility does not mean you can take over as branch manager. They would rather have you move to another state as branch manager.

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A positive work environment. The best co-workers I have had so far in my career worked with me at Sherwin. I also worked under an amazing management team. There is a lot of room for career growth. I worked for Sherwin for about 3.5 years. I started as a contracted lab technician, then I was hired full time as an R&D Associate Chemist. I quickly worked my way up to R&D Chemist within a year of being hired full time. The department I worked in was very fast paced, however, I know there are many other groups that move at a much slower pace with longer timelines. This would make it much easier to manage the workload.

Cons

Working with marketing was challenging at times. We would regularly receive big requests a day before they needed something. This would pose a challenge when you had other priorities to attend to. The pay was average. I do think it could have been slightly higher for all of the job responsibilities given to the chemists in my group specifically. The workload was overwhelming at times.

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