Career Development
Top salaries and benefits, a culture that readily acknowledges and rewards success, opportunities to take real responsibility in a supportive environment with structured career development programmes.
We believe passionately in helping all our commercial staff be the very best they can be.
Achieving this doesn’t just mean developing the best relationships with individuals and understanding their needs. It also involves a commitment to provide the most appropriate support systems, significant investment in your development and giving you the greatest opportunity to show us what you’re capable of.
Typically, we would expect recruits to achieve at least one promotion or role enlargement within 24 months of joining the company with a commensurate increase in rewards package. We want you to succeed.
Structured Training
To help you achieve this success, we have a structured performance review system linked to competency profiling to enable us to deliver personalised development which focuses on the areas you can benefit from most. In addition the 360 feedback tool will provide you with direct feedback on your performance.
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"We operate a very targeted approach to the needs of the individual. It's broad based in that it covers a wide spectrum of commercial disciplines, but we focus on particular requirements of the individual and where they will benefit the most. For example, negotiation skills, or developing the category argument."
Sue Blight – Management Development & Training Manager. |
Dairy Crest has introduced a Commercial Development programme to help individuals realise their full potential and to equip the next generation of senior managers with the skills necessary to lead the company into the future. Working with Katalyst Consulting Ltd a series of modules are being developed based on commercial best practice. We strive to provide you with the highest quality training. We are proud, for instance, that our Marketing Excellence Programme won the Marketing Society Award for training excellence in 2007
We want you to be the best. When you win – we win.
| The following comments are from some of those who have attended the courses.
"The whole course was informative, the level of tuition was excellent, and the examples/exercises used were tailored to all participants."
"A good atmosphere was created for the practical activity, the right balance between intimidating and casual, and the pace was good - no 2 o'clock snooze."
"The case studies were both relevant and topical, while the feedback was kept "positive!"
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