Pay is much smaller than Altria or British American Tobacco. Better to go there! Bonuses are $10-$15,000 less too. Even though we have the number 1 nicotine product in the country, it seems the company keeps cutting costs. Most of us received 2.5% raises & $5G bonus, a real spit in the face. Employees are ticked off!! Altria & BAT get $15-20,000. We didn’t hit our bonus max this yr do to no fault of our own. Management couldn’t forecast what was needed & we had shortages. Retailers hate us due to untimely payments & Zyn shortages. PMI says they value their employees but don’t want to give us our piece of the pie. They’re basically destroying the culture. Two yrs of corporate restructuring & horrible communication. They managed to hire so many managers & upper management that have zero knowledge on the tobacco industry thus a lot of chaos. Promotion within is getting a little better. They basically gave us iPad tablets, took away our laptops & said figure it out. Threw us on Sales Force & it’s been horrible. Never works smoothly & they can’t seem to settle on 1 thing. Constant changes. No real goals for two yrs or they keep moving the goal posts. Blitz’s upon Blitz’s hitting 12-14 stores a day when the norm is 8 in other companies. They’re squeezing us & basically making it miserable to get rid of the bad apples I believe. Using technology to watch your every move & micromanaging us into a cookie cutter approach. Swedish Match was an incredible place to work for & PMI has destroyed it. National Sales Meetings gone!! Work harder & receive less pay, bonuses & incentives. Now they not only want you to do your job but cover vacant territories & do the training for new employees for the RTMs. TSMs don’t get paid extra so new employees don’t get trained well.
