Pharma Rep to Device

Discussion in 'Wright Medical' started by anonymous, Dec 29, 2015 at 9:34 AM.

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  1. anonymous

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    I am a Pharmaceutical rep that is trying to break into device sales. I have five years of experience since college and have been in the top 10% nationally for the past three. With this success however I cannot even land an interview with a major player. Can anyone offer suggestions?
     

  2. anonymous

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    I made the jump from Pharmacy to device. Most device managers don't consider pharma experience to be relevant to device. I would agree with that assessment. My advice is to get 1099 gig so you can call on a similar call point. I broke in because I basically agreed that pharma experience is crap but I had the sales skill set and drive to do well in device. Good luck.

     
  3. anonymous

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    Go to your local gym and wait for the douchey looking guy with shaved arms and manscaped eyebrows in scrubs to come in. Then ask to work in a set during his bench press session. Strike up a conversation and act all surprised that he works at Stryker.
     
  4. anonymous

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    Then watch that stryker guy drive off in his brand new Mercedes because he is actually killing us everyday. They are scum bags though...
     
  5. anonymous

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    I will give you honest and sincere advice because I was in your shoes fifteen years ago. At that time, it was even harder to go from pharma to device. I made it to devices and now at this point in time, I will tell you to look somewhere else. The time to be selling medical devices has passed. The money is considerably lower even with jobs that always offered the potential of high incomes at the expense of your personal life. It is only a short matter of time before reps will not be allowed in the operating rooms. Hospital systems are looking for every way to keep reps out and that is the only place you can sell and build relationships. More and more hospitals control pricing even if the surgeons want something else, you must pay for scrubs in many hospitals, vendor credentialing and policies that change at a moment's notice which can keep you out of a surgery...this is no longer the field to go into
     
  6. anonymous

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    Have to buy your own acrubs? You're kidding me. Hospitals don't want to supply your wardrobe anymore? How callous of them. May e they're tired of seeing the douchebags in airports & grocery storeS or at the kids' soccer games in their scrubs. Why can't you but your own scrubs? Oh, peopleigt figure out you aren't as cool as they thought when you wear the same scrubs as the dog groomer.
     
  7. anonymous

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    That's so offensive...to the dog groomer!
     
  8. anonymous

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    You must be a hospial empoyee or have no experience with this or business in general...so let me explain this to you I don't care if I have to pay for my own scrubs since I make a good living but I don't expect the hospital to take advantage of sterile policy and make several dollars on each purchase of scrubs. That's just ripping people off. We sell but also go into the ORs because we are proficient with our products and can help the flow of bumbling OR staffs who are not familiar with the product or are too arrogant to admit that they are bumbling. We save time and help make the surgery flow smoother....why should the hospital profit on cheap paper scrubs, they are saving time in the OR with us there already.
     
  9. anonymous

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    And I look cool in my scrubs at Starbucks