I’m just off maternity leave so not sure if I’m being overly sensitive or whether to start pushing back.
I wasn’t treated overly well during maternity leave by HR/the wider business (despite it being a big company and I’d have assumed would be on the right side of the law regarding this kind of thing)
My current job title is that of a manager, since coming back off maternity leave my team has merged with another, in this other team my counterpart is an ‘analyst’ as her title. Since we both do the same job we’ve split the workload and now have dedicated responsibilities.
An example would be if I was Recruitment and onboarding manager and she was recruitment and onboarding analyst. We were both responsible for recruitment and onboarding, now one of us is responsible for recruitment only the other onboarding only.
My new manager notified me last week he wanted to speak to HR to get my title changed to more accurately reflect one of us now does recruitment and the other onboarding. I assumed this would mean my role would now be ‘recruitment manager’
however I’ve just been sent (unofficially) the new org chart my manager has created and I’m listed as recruitment analyst.
To me the term analyst seems a lot less snr than manager, and it seems to be the case across the business and in other businesses within the sector.
Am I right to be annoyed about this and can they effectively ‘downgrade’ my title if all other benefits stay the same?