Field Mktg, all or most of national & hybrid reps, handful of DMs & field reps, only DSS where rep in geog left?, What about EDs, CSRs? FSA Helpdesk? Who is supposed to answer our chatter if FM gone? How do the sales folks learn anything by product or since apparently not revising anything anymore, no one needs to know? Authors must be jazzed. Pearson stood for quality content and superior support. Now?
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Like the comment on too many layers. The IA team is grossly overpaid and seem to try and make things easy on themselves with no regard for the customer or reps. DSS is also a joke just traveling around and following reps around on campus and adding little value. Pearson needs to move its best people into rep roles and get rid of all this extra fluff.
There are still too many rep layers as well. DSS, SAE, AE, ED, Generalist, the list goes on. And it's also impossible to truly track the impact/sales on each, so those on the SIP get severely overpaid , a la the old "LSC" and custom roles. If everything is truly going to IA, there needs to be an IA team that covers the entire country, not an SAE that primarliy sits at home and covers 2 states. So for that reason, see you all here next year. 6th year in a row of botched layoffs. Pearson needs to rip the bandaid off like Cengage did and truly make cuts, they resisted Generalist for years, and here we are.
can someone post the reorg chart for those of us that didnt get it?
The amount of VPs is ridiculous. Pearson is the most "VP" happy place. I'd love someone to explain to me what "presales" is.
Field sales Layoffs will happen again next year and the year after. The company is in big trouble with very little new products on the horizon and a lack of creative thinkers and direction. The company has always struggled with implementation of internal changes and new product rollouts. Support has gone down hill for customers and we have a lack of people who know anything or care about the company being successful. It is sad the company has done very little to react to the changing market except layoffs and constant confusions and screwups.
I love the slide that shows our 10 VPs of Sales. Pretty soon, every rep will have their own personal VP to report to.
You forget FM get to "reapply" for the new, but differently named FM positions.