Low pay. You’ll be expected to handle major accounts while doing customer service, prospecting, contracting/legal, and administrative work. In a mature sales organization these would be separate roles, since it’s impossible to be great at all of them. Compensation is in line with a call center, not a sales role.
There is no work life balance. I was commonly asked to work early mornings or into the evenings. The majority of my PTO days involved ‘hopping on for a quick call’ or ‘just sending a few quick emails.’ I was yelled at for taking sick days.
The management is just bad all around. Micromanagement, unnecessary metrics, and truly just a lack of business/sales acumen. If you are even halfway decent at sales you won’t learn much here.
I can truly say there was nothing positive about my experience at Euromonitor. It was stressful, the pay was low, and there were no development opportunities. The career path was non-existent.
At Euromonitor you are nothing but an ATM for the owners of the company. They quite literally host annual meetings to talk about how rich they are - the last one I attended was so great that they made jokes about the tornado that struck Kentucky around that time (as they’re in the UK it seems like they enjoy making fun of the US whenever possible).
With all honesty I regret ever taking the job. It became clear what kind of company it was quickly, but with their archaic commission structure I had to wait until the end of my second year to actually get paid.
To top it all off, after achieving over 200% of my quota, my boss refused to provide a recommendation for my next job.
Avoid this company unless you have some odd desire to be underpaid and treated poorly. There are much better sales jobs in Chicago that provide development opportunities for substantially higher pay.