Rexel Group Reviews

Where do I start - This is probably the worst I’ve seen in a while - Leadership is completely oblivious to the direction in which they are wanting to take this company. Every week the direction changed, with no explanation or clear objective as to what they are trying to achieve. -“Managers” were hired/promoted into positions that they were under- qualified for. Contrary to Rexel’s belief, management does need to know how to manage people before they get into these positions. -I’ve questioned how some of these “technical” people were able to keep and maintain a job here. Completely incompetent in the space and position they were hired in. If it were just one person I would omit this, but this was the case across departments. Even worse, the egos of these people are through the roof, so good luck with convincing them there’s better ways to handle things. -The environment is toxic. I’ve been on many internal phone calls that have turned into yelling matches by the end of the meeting. It was beyond uncomfortable -Archaic thought process, business model and strategy. The company is so far behind, that sooner than later they will have to shut the doors. Every decision that is made is to appease to leadership, not the customers so they are losing customers at a rapid pace. -Employee Moral was at an all time low and so was retention. People looked like they were depressed everyday. And the turnover rate is crazy high! But no one from leadership cares -The HR department is a nightmare. Poor onboarding process, attitudes were through the roof if you asked a simple question. Once you accept the position, you can forget about them caring, they are just there to collect a paycheck. I can keep going but I’ll end with this, believe the reviews because I didn’t and now I’m wishing I had. RUN!!!

Rexel were the worst company I have ever worked for, if I was allowed to score them 0 stars I would have, luckily for them 1 is the lowest score you can give. This is a company stuck in the 1980’s, their branches are old and falling down, the systems crash on a weekly basis and the culture is horrific. During my time there I witnessed bullying of colleagues, suppliers and customers! The senior management team have an inflated opinion of Rexel’s size and importance in a very competitive market and instead of focussing on attacking the opposition they spend their time witch hunting and bulling colleagues and attacking suppliers who they then claim are working in partnership with them! For a company with a CEO who is ex DHL the supply chain and availability of products to customers is a joke, many customers have walked away over the past year because of this. The leadership of the commercial departments idea of growing categories is to see how much more rebate they can get, the concept of growing categories through product and brand development is alien to them and frankly beyond their abilities. The recent coming together of N&E, Wilts, WF Sentate & Parker Merchanting is billed as One Rexel, for this you can read N&E takeover. Any process now follows the N&E way, which is the best way!!! From experiences in several organisations bigger and more advanced than N&E or Rexel I can tell them that this is definitely not the case, their thinking on supply chain, category management and marketing are decades behind competitors and industry best practice. I would urge anyone thinking or going to work for them to seriously think again, and for anyone still there to get out now.