business development manager

sales

editor

news producer

recruiter

Thomson Reuters

Typical day: read emails and prioritise tasks for the day.  Priorities usually arrive via inbox that morning, ranging from urgent queries from sales teams regarding various new products, urgent marketing tasks, responding to queries from editors, sorting out contract issues, or responding to overnight emails with attached tasks from manager.  Always monitoring political and legislative developments, and competitor activity, and discussing potential new product opportunities with team.  Attending conferences, establishing relationships with various external bodies and potential customers, presenting product briefings to sales teams, writing and presenting business cases for the business are just a few of the things that may occur during the day.  
What you learned: how to clearly establish and communicate parameters around projects.  How to prioritise.  How to manage up.  How to collaborate with stakeholders.  How to communicate clearly.  How to manage stress, mine and my co-workers. 
Management: an almost total absence of people management in workplace, with short-term business strategy at the top.  
Co-workers: immediate co-workers are exceptional people, highly intelligent, sensitive and effective in their jobs.  
Hardest part of job: lack of leadership and interest in people within management.  Seriously under-resourced.  The need to compete for resources. Short-term business goals and decisions made an executive team that does not understand the nature of the business.
Most enjoyable part of job: opportunity to work with a wide variety of people in and out of the business, meeting market needs, the process of creating new publications from start to finish, and the sheer variety of the job.  And working with fabulous co-workers.

I could write a book about how inefficient this company is run and it would go into the fiction section at the library  as no one would believe it.
Some exceptionally poor managers in senior positions. Didn’t act in the best interest of the company.  Management doesn't appear to have a strategy or any direction, If you are one of the favoured ones, you can do no wrong, including not making your targets, but ask questions and you'll quickly find yourself on the outer. Processes and systems are not user or customer friendly. There really isn't a company culture to speak of since most people are only in the office for the bare minimum hours each day. Limited career development. 
 Product development is slow and always doing catch up with the competitors.

The constant job cutting is wearing and depressing. Outsourcing to the Phillipines and India is endemic. Constant restructuring with consequent job losses and forcing people to take on the responsibilities of what were previously two separate roles. Very poor salaries – which seems consistent with the publishing industry as a whole. On the plus side, work/life balance is good and there are great people working there.

TR has zero idea on how to provide training. And if you request more training they will respond by placing you on management plans that don't include any training. 
The worst HR I have ever experienced. They simply ignore any requests  - unless you complain against them and then they will retaliate against you at super speed. 
Unless you are desperate for a job find something else. 

I worked at Thomson Reuters for 2 and half years. During that time 2 restructures.

Management is very weak. They have no idea of what you do. Too many managers in front of the main manager. You never really know who you report too.

There is lack of support. No structure.

Made very few friends.  Everyone was out for themselves no teamwork. 

I loved my job and what I did everyday, but the environment was stifling. Not enough to stay.

Good place if you are lazy and don't want much progression. As the managers are stuck their for life and unless they are made redundant for poor performance (which they never will be as they shift any blame or issues to subordinates) then you will not progress there.

Definitely a good place for someone who has kids, can just chill. Customers come last at Thomson Retuers. Managers come first.

My summary says it all. I loved this company and would recommend to anyone who is thinking of applying for a job.

Global travel is embraced as well as autonomy and trust to work from home or report to a manager in another country.

The culture is family, friends, work hard, play hard... a joy to have been a part of.

A good work/lifestyle balance, and stimulating work - especially in terms of the creative and technical aspects of writing and publishing   legal content and also in terms of the challenging "modern publishing environment" .

Worked here for 2 and half years.  New management came and it went downhill from there. I was bullied by my manager. Left before  it ruined me. 
Not a friendly place to work. Everyone looks after themselves.  No team morale. Everyone I worked with has since left for similar reasons. 

The individuals working at Thomson Reuters within my team were wonderful. However, the atmosphere towards management and the company were fairly negative.

Contractors were not made aware whether their contract would be renewed until sometimes the day before their contract was due to run out.

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