Content Writer and Designer Mitchell Mazurek wasn’t sure what to expect when he first joined Sysco LABS.
He knew that, within large companies, it can be hard to build connections with peers and make your voice heard. But what Mazurek didn’t realize is that Sysco LABS isn’t your ordinary organization.
He shared that, soon after stepping into his role, he discovered an army of “passionate, friendly and incredible people” eager to lend a helping hand, acknowledge each other’s talents and work together to develop impactful solutions.
With encouragement from his teammates and the company’s leaders, Mazurek has been able to leave his own mark on the company, playing a leading role in projects with organization-wide impact. As he has helped shape important initiatives, he has been able to build out his own skill set, giving way to a fulfilling career journey.
Read on to see what Mazurek had to say about what makes Sysco LABS a unique place to build one’s career, and check out the company’s open roles.
About Sysco LABS
Sysco LABS is the innovation arm of foodservice provider Sysco. Its teams develop e-commerce solutions that help the company’s customers browse products and place orders, track orders in real time and gain insight into their accounts.
Describe Sysco LABS’ culture in one word. What made you pick that word?
Dedication — inside and out. Sysco’s a pretty big company, and I know that when I first started I was a little worried that it’d be easy to get lost in the shuffle or have trouble connecting with others and have everything suddenly pass me by and fade into the background.
What I found instead was, with that many people, there are so many passionate, friendly and incredible people eager to make connections and help you feel supported. Our on-the-ground colleagues are so dedicated to supporting one another, openly communicating with and celebrating each other, and collaborating across teams and with our greater technology organization to solve problems and innovate in brand new customer-focused ways.
Our leaders, too, are dedicated to supporting us with the tools and direction we need to succeed. They’re also dedicated to finding new and meaningful routes of recognizing and valuing the contributions our people provide, whether through acknowledging and awarding excellent colleagues or boosting our colleague-driven culture committee and resource groups with some executive backup.
“Our leaders, too, are dedicated to supporting us with the tools and direction we need to succeed.”
What’s the coolest project you’ve worked on recently, and how did it help you grow professionally?
Something I’m proud to have been helping out with very recently — one that I think celebrates and illuminates the idea of dedication at Sysco — is an upcoming award ceremony for our technology organization, including Sysco LABS. From my unique point of view being behind the scenes, this long-term, cross-departmental collaborative effort isn’t just an affirming way of celebrating and gaining insight about colleagues across the company — it’s a great opportunity to flex and grow skills. From coordination efforts around driving nominations, pulling in volunteers and helping out with the myriad of moving parts of holding a corporate event to boosting the corporate communication effort of spreading the news and highlighting great coworkers, I’ve found a lot of the experience to be useful for both great corporate soft skills in communication, timing and collaboration as well as real, tangible lifts to some of my marketing abilities outside of my traditional writing and designing.
