Wondering if I can get some insight into this. I am 6 months into a new role, it is a specialist role and I am the only person in the company managing the topic. I have been within the comms team, with the head of comms being my line manager.
This person has resigned and we have had a quick conversation just now where the director of the department has said my current colleague, same level as me and also a different specialist comma role will be my line manager and other people in our team transferred to different teams under the director.
The new line manager is a great guy and I know he will be supportive, it just feels a bit like a demotion for me, because my old manager was the head of our department and more senior - whereas now my manager will be just a manager of a different specialist function?
I’m new (he’s only been there a year longer) so in some ways I feel like I should just accept this. I know we will work together well and he will be supportive in the day to day elements of my role, and I will closely interact with the team director anyway
I’m just wondering if I’m missing a trick and should put in a request to report directly to the team director/some other department - eg I could equally work with/report to head of HR.
Or is there some other request to make, like a request for horizontal management?
I’m not experienced with big corporates and just wonder if I don’t act now if I’m doing myself a disservice in terms of jostling myself up the pecking order when I had the chance.
as an aside, it was a 15 mins teams call with no warning, I really feel that the director should have chatted to me about my thoughts first! No consultation whatsoever! Maybe that’s normal though.
Or do I just remain enthusiastic, see how it goes and address any issues later down the line once I’m more established?