KPMG reviews

Procurement's leadership prohibits any form of diversity or dissent. Whoever disagrees or even thinks differently than leadership is publicly disrespected, humiliated and admonished. It’s worse for women over 40, the primary targets. No one is allowed to work from home and you will see leadership walk up and down the aisles 3x/day to see who’s at their desk working. Yet, leadership can work remotely whenever they want-- even 2 wks/mo. First line managers don’t have a say in who gets hired, promoted, salary increases, etc. It is not a democracy here. Leadership's transformation has only created massive confusion and frustration for both the internal customers and the procurement staff. Almost everything that has been claimed to be accomplished is just smoke and mirrors but the senior executives seem to believe it. Some of the staff in the department actually wish that Internal Audit would take a good look into the claims of success as they are subjective and unfounded. Leadership says and does things that are highly inappropriate, but the staff is terrified of their leadership and afraid of losing their jobs. There is no one for the staff to turn to as most of management seems disconnected and the staff’s complaints to HR have done nothing but make them feel worse. Last year about 20% of the department was "laid off" --mostly women over 40! On the very same day they were being let go, contractors were being onboarded and assigned to their seats. Whenever someone displeases leadership or dissents, it seems like HR just gets out the paperwork and executes without question. These are just some of the things I can write about. For many of us here, we have lost hope that it’s going to get better, Even hand-picked new hires are leaving. My advice is to avoid Procurement until current leadership changes.

With extensive prior experience of working within a corporate environment, I have never seen the amount of inconsistency that is experienced throughout the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement department. The department is so top heavy that the associates to manager positions are being spread so thin with little to no regards from upper management. Leadership does not delegate the department resources properly which in turn forces the lower levels to pick up the slack of upper managements poor project planning and work more hours/ on weekends for truly nothing; no recognition, no acknowledgment and definitely no promotions or raises to the people that deserve it. Leadership did not even follow up with employees performance leaders to find out how they were doing at year end, therefore no one received proper promotions/raises since the funds were allocated to whom upper management thought "deserved" it. They barely treat the lower level employees with dignity and respect, let alone allow the team the privileges allocated to employees at KPMG. There is absolutely no growth or future under SSP current management. I’ve never been apart of such a toxic, condescending environment where everyone is waiting to be fired since that’s all management is good at enforcing; the bottom level employees are all “replaceable”. They do not care to make their employees happy or let their employees enjoy KPMG privileges!! Management thinks that this is a dictatorship and that they can pick and choose which firm perks the department can utilize (such a work from home, alternate work arrangements, volunteering, etc. ) It's a sick power move. Upper management of this department does not believe that KPMG is a progressive firm (in which KPMG PRIDES itself on) and they do not trust their employees at all. No employee would consider top level managers as leadership as they do not LEAD, they force upon us what they want and do WHATEVER they want. You have the top manager being bicoastal 2 weeks out of every month and over seas for non-work purposes about 3 weeks, yet will not allow lower level employees to benefit from the alternative work arrangement (they want to implement only 1 day a month per employee, how is that LEADING your team?! you're MICROMANAGING!) Mind you, we are in 2019; the outdated mindset of a 9-5 has been replaced YEARS ago and if KPMG wants to keep employee satisfaction high (and have a decent employee satisfaction survey), I recommend that SSP should implement the alternate work arrangement to their employee like every other department in KPMG has.