Great opportunities, aging business model - Marketing Associate Sysco Employee Review

4.0
20 May 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lots of access to upper management, make changes based on feedback from street sales. Most reps are older, have been in the business for years. Lots of in house experience to draw from. Strong training.

Cons

Sysco's core business will always be large institutional customers, restaurant groups, chains. Reps who capture this business will be successful, but sales cycles on this can be long. It's like selling insurance or any other commodity. They also struggle with pricing, as it's publicly traded sometimes "managing by the quarter" is in play, so for reps who want to make a quick buck, small accounts can be high turnover, low margin timesucks.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

You can make money but it all depends on the orders you get, how fast you can go, how long you can maintain that pace without getting burned out. Definitely a young mans sport, as the do refer to you as "industrial athletes."

Cons

Like many industries the hours can be long. For the ones who don't make much on running above rate then you can make up for it in hours. If you soak the hours and run you can definitely make some big money. The turn over rate is extremely high there, even in management. I used to be proud of the union but the teamsters in Cleveland are completely worthless, I would bet they are getting paid under the table to not fight for contract negotiations. When I was there the contract expired and they barely fought for anything, on voting day they literally said they wont back us up if we don't pass this contract....so consider that when you want to work for this place. Also the equipment is so old and broken that people were taking the scanners home just so they could have a good one for the next night.

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