business development executive

sales representative

customer service representative

merchandiser

owner operator driver

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

You will work with many talented colleagues who will all labour under the same frustration at being micro managed by people who know little of the technology or business processes they are supposedly managing. Their only concern is that they appear to be on top of their jobs to layer of management above them. Actual value added activity does not enter the equation. Attempts at planning are thwarted by over optimistic estimation of effort and resources to meet impossible deadlines agreed to in order to appear tough and bottom line driven. In reality it's cowardly capitulation by managers beaten into submission, top-down. Attempts to redress year after year poor "engagement survey" results fail when line managers demand mandatory attendance of half day "team building" exercises, after hours drinks or lunches, where staff are torn between attending and knowing that the time "off" has not been planned and so their work backlog will build in their absence. Ditto for "state of the nation" addresses by the CIO, where one has come to anticipate the bi-annual tale of how tough the industry is doing it, a list of all the projects delivered on time and in budget, followed by a long monologue as to why you must redouble your efforts for the coming half year, and should therefore take all your leave during the mandatory annual shut down so that you can be revitalised and the balance sheet look better without the leave provisions. You will be required to work after hours, on weekends and public holidays at the drop of a hat and then will be required to submit written justification for time in lieu, which will be questioned by the very manager who demanded you work overtime and who will look upon the request with disdain, with a facial expression and body language that suggest you are asking for something you do not deserve, is unreasonable, un-"professional" and counter company culture. You will wear a cloak of administrative system concrete in every process you are compelled to follow, whether using an operational system, applying for leave, time recording and project allocation, requesting help, system change request and change management or, my pet aversion, preparing for the farce that is staff appraisal (which has devolved into a session where you are required to tell your manager what you've been doing for the appraisal period as they have no idea, at which point the manager deems it necessary and proper to downplay your achievement in case you have any smart ideas regarding pay increase or promotion. The manager will then devote their remaining effort to bending the appraisal content to demonstrate achievement of THEIR appraisal goals (which trickle down into your appraisal) so that  they can say, "See, (the royal) we achieved our team goals through my terrific management, despite you dragging the chain on these points." The failure of the monolithic processes is manifest by all the planning and record keeping done outside of the various official systems, which are maintained for little more than "tick the box" reasons and blame apportionment when the chips are down. The worst effect of this cultural rot is that virtually everyone is turned into a busy fool, i.e. they spend a disproportionate amount of time on admin and window dressing versus value adding activity in their true areas of expertise. This furthermore results in self-centred behaviour, where people cannot afford to spend time assisting colleagues as they strive to meet ever more unreasonable deadlines whilst the administrative cloak of concrete weighs ever heavier and heavier. Add to this growing number of increasingly burdensome governance systems and processes and an increasingly complex technology platform, the components of which change so frequently that there is little motivation to really get to understand or document a system or process because it is likely to become redundant soon and it is easy to see that the CCA environment is at best extremely challenging to the point where mere survival is a daily achievement and at worst, so toxic as to be debilitating. A lot of work, no play or thanks, for a normal remuneration. A pity, because it could be a great place to work, for all the reasons that people who haven't worked there think it would be.

When I started working here, everything was fine and they gave me many opportunities to better myself as a trainee. However, once you stopped becoming a trainee, they didn't care about you at all. They would force you to work overtime, and you weren't allowed to go home at all, even though you were assigned for only 8 hours. This included 11 hour work shifts. My back would hurt everyday, and even though I'd tell them, they'd just tell me to man up. 
In addition, competition and work was unbelievably biased and unfair. Coca-cola set up a system where you had to at least pick on average 200 cases an hour, however, they did not take into account how HARD or Easy each pallet was. It was based purely on what pallets you were assigned, It was never random as managers were able to assign a person pallets to increase their score. From experience, I always tried to ask for at least a bit of help in terms of pallets to increase my score. I would always get harassed because of my low score, but that was because of the incredibly hard pallets that I was doing. My SKU rate in comparison to other employees was always higher and I explained that to my managers. However, they didn't care at all. They told me that they could not care less about SKU rate and kept harassing me about how bad I was at working. Over time, I could not take it anymore and decided to leave because of the toxic environment. I created many friendships, however the work environment and competitiveness is atrocious. I hate this place for doing this to me, and I hope anyone that reads this can see how bad of a place this really is.

My time at Coca Cola Amatil was one which i will never forget.This job helped me grow as a person, father ,and until now being a grandfather.My day consisted of working ,a whole production line for bag and box.Which supplied syrups in boxes for customers like ,MacDonalds,Hungry Jacks,Subway and pubs and hotels etc.I would run the filler, packer,labeller and palletised of that line.As well as data entry through our Sap systems with a lot of support from managers or production managers they were called.I would supply raw materials for my line also which required my forklift license ,which i acquired in 1997.I also obtained skills to work on other lines for cans and PET bottles and spent time training in the syrup batch rooms, and the warehouse side of the job.There was not a hard part of my job as the pay was good, and the people were awesome to work with.The hardest part was actually leaving Coca Cola as i had spent 20 years there and made great friendships with colleagues as well as managers.I am still to this day forever grateful to Coca Cola AMATIL for the experience of work and people that i enriched my life with to this day.And for that i will be eternally grateful..

Overall the entire business is a fantastic experience. The only flaw is the current CEO is inconsiderate and a person of no vision. Dim witted and no idea of the long term of South Australia and the damage this close down will do to the state in the long term. For a city to prosper and increase sales they need to eliminate the correct waste. First the CEO needs to get off her perch and should never been allowed to assume this position. Secondly the sales team and scheduling needed a strict review of their practises. Thirdly the business could have corrected its poor profit by looking outside their box and promote the products aggressively that people want and need. Simply to start with water as Adelaide has had a fantastic record for water quality. The world is a big market. But sadly some have become too comfortable in their offices just following the footy. Well they have let this happen to the company in Adelaide and the poor profits are directly the fault of a few. The closure is the choice of an a fool that has a greedy purse for a bonus and with minor share increases in mind.
Well.. The damage is done now and what is the point of 1 person expressing their point of view.

Some of the best and brightest people work at CCA. Everyone is so friendly and easy to get along with. CCA operates in two locations, St Leonards and Northmead, and I've found St Leonards to have a more youthful, creative hipster culture where Northmead is more of an old school, methodical group, that work and play hard. I worked with some of the friendliest and hard working staff. The work was tough, as I worked in finance. Lots of systems to learn, for anyone new to SAP, it's a steep learning curve. Free beverages too, and drinks often rotated so it was something new every two weeks which is nice. And the Cafe was/used to be great until it was taken over recently. Lots of onsite parking at Northmead and it's a stone throw away from Parramatta, so location was excellent for anyone as it's super close to the M4 as well. Great job, great pay, great people. If you see a job opening, apply!   

FYI - Working in Finance, most customers know what they want and how they want it. Be flexible within reason, be confident, be tough, be funny and this job will be a piece of pie!

Worked at the Mentone VIC (Melbourne) branch for only a few weeks (thank god for that!); Was told it was a helpful and welcoming place where everyone helps each other out and new employees are supported and accepted. Well, the support was there only at the start while I was on my "trial period" where I would be assigned to work alongside a top employee/team leader, but once I was off and running on my own I would be told to keep up without asking too many questions (although I thought that's what the team leader was there for? to answer questions of new employees and any issues that may arise) but apparently not. 
Worst environment where they judge you more than they help you. It's run by people who don't care about your health or how much you struggle on the job, trying to keep up with silly KPI's that are not even realistic for new people just coming in. The work hours and pay is good, and it was a full-time basis job when I worked there but it's really not worth sticking around if you get treated like a piece of sh1t.
Glad I've found a place that respects me as a person now rather than working for these idiots.

Worked as a inbound finance consultant. Some of the most friendliest, hardworking people I've met. Everyone is so easy and friendly to get along with, haven't met a single person I didn't like. Work was always difficult and challenging, but I enjoyed the culture and people really supported you. It's not a role you just do for the sake of a job, you actually find yourself immersed in the role. Excellent company to work for, I would strongly recommended you to put all your chips on the table to get a job in the Northmead office, due to the excellent friendly and relaxed culture the staff has cultivated over the years, compared to other locations (wink wink St Leonards...) Make sure you are highly approachable, extremely friendly, love a good old yarn, can sell ice to an Eskimo and love drinking Coke, and the rest will fall in place!

What is the best part of working at the company?
The team relationship built between consultants, permanent positions. The accessibility to team members when required and the awesome culture of WFH.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Waiting for vendor’s response to fixing issues with their system. The frustrating time zone between the UK and Australia, and the appalling lack of commitment by the API vendor

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It is z as n awesome place to work at. Like any other place you find toxic behaviors but somehow, those behaviors were outnumbered and diminished by the rest of the teams 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
15 minutes meeting to check where we are at, execute work projected for the day, catch up with friends in messenger, meet testing team, execute testing, keep testing result up to date, manage defects, etc snd close the day with bugs/issues meeting

Coca Cola Amatil is, without a doubt, the absolute worst company I have ever worked for. Nepotism and favouritism are rife. The morale is at an all time low (and so is the share price). The managers are only interested in micro-managing staff rather than developing and empowering them. You are expected to make an unrealistic number of face to face visits every day (30!) and work through lunch breaks on a daily basis. The salary seems ok, but when you actually break down how many hours you work, and the fact that you don't get any overtime or compensation for missed breaks, the hourly rate is a joke. God forbid if you get seen in the office (even to pick something up) when you should be out 'on the road'. All in all, an extremely toxic environment, where the best people leave and the dead wood stay on to sink the ship further.

I have a lot to be very thankful for being a CCA employee for 8 years. I left CCA after going through a sale/ merger then having been kindly offered a role that would have seen me be retained. I performed the role for 6 months to which the role was not invigorating or challenging me hence the reason I decided to seek alternate employment. I have since learnt that I should have exercised a little more patience and stuck it out as I have experienced other work places that are second to none in compared to CCA. I dealt with many people across many different channels across many different levels of leadership and can honestly say that CCA is a company that genuinely cares about its people. It wasn't all rainbows and lollipops, we definitely had our challenges but all in all was a company that felt like home.

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