Pros
Great co-workers, nice office, fair PTO, and opportunity to make decent commission for an entry level job. Other departments have great culture.
Cons
The Market Development department is going down the drain. In the last five months, under new management and a "transformation" the department has gone from a strategic, partner driven and creative marketing role to a cold calling center. Before this transformation you had a monthly goal and you were able to strategize with the sales team on creative ways to drive new business. Everything from email campaigns, events, and marketing tactics that required creativity and strategy. Now you are required to sit on an automatic dialer for a minimum of 2.5 hours which will increase to 5 hours by the end of the year. That is a promise. You are required to have over 500+ dial attempts and at least 15 conversations every day and this too will increase to over 30 soon. Everything is recorded and you are constantly being critiqued and picked apart. They are also mandating the use of pre-written emails from marketing so there will be no creativity there either. Market development has become a robotic, insanely boring department. If you are hoping for a role where you simply show up, sit on a dialing system and cold call all day long than this will be a good fit for you. But I stress there is zero creativity, extreme micro-management and employee morale is at an all time low.