Info on the Seqirus Contract Please

So do we know what territories didn't roll over? What about Brian?

 

Jervis has no idea! Brian has burned people away. A candidate in past didn't take job because of Brian I've heard. He insulted and micromanaged candidate before even taking job! No adult needs a Brian in life. It is hell !

 

Brain just lost two more reps that were new hires. Is anyone taking notice?

 

84 is very low. I guess it depends on part of the country.

 

I am at 96k, but the stress is getting unbearable.

 

Im at 106K - u are underpaid

 

Help! Help! Help! I am very new to Seqirus and Brian is my manager. After reading all these messages about him on here I needed a job so I took it. Does he really micromanage like this all the time. Does he have any hospital experience except for the last year with touchpoint on the Seqirus contract? I am trying to explain to him how my hospitals along with my hospital systems work and all he keeps telling me is "find a champion, keep going into the emergency department (even after I have been told not too with out approval)". Any manager with hospital experience would understand that most hospitals need approval from materials management or pharmacy to get access to other departments within the hospitals. He doesn't even understand that most hospitals require appointments. I am hearing from others in the territory that the last person quit because of Brian. Help!

 

OMG! I can not believe that my manager Brian just sent out a text message calling us all "Knuckleheads". What kind of company am I getting myself into? I have never had a manager call his/her team "Knuckleheads".
Brian seems like he is a bigtime micromanager, seems since I have started he wants a different report done all the time. Are we field sales or are we inside sales base where we should just make phone calls all day and update all the different administrative reports for Brian. Why do they ask us for sales numbers, doesn't Seqirus pay sales data? New with the Seqirus team, and now having second guesses about this company with all these reports (I have been in pharma for almost 20 years and have never had to do all these reports, even back when on paper didn't have these types of busy work reports) is this just my manager Brian thing or is this companywide?

 

Is the rumor true? Steve Mieske got the Regional manager position? If it is true we should all be looking for new jobs if you have not started to look already. Steve didn't even sell double digits in Rapivab so how is he going to coach me to sell Rapivab, a product that I sold over 10 times the amount that he sold. Steve ranked 4th from the bottom in the rankings. Steve did a ride along with me and it was the worst experience I have ever had, 100% times worse then when Kevin rode with me. Must be the good ol boys club with Kevin, Steve, Frank and Jonathan all from Sunovion. Yes I am female so I can not be in the good ol boys club. I would have stayed for another internal candidate. Time to really find a new company to work for. Thank you Kevin. Steve is going to be miserable to work for, just like I keeping hearing Brian is with the East team.
When is management going to learn that reps work hard for managers they enjoy working for and feel that the manager is also working hard for their team?

 

Glad you are paying attention to the details. First he didnt get the job, at least that we know of. Second, using last years numbers you are correct but he started in March so not an accurate gage of success. He sold more since then than the rest of the district. Third, we only have one female on the team that has been here since last year so you are lying. Fourth, you should have applied for the position and if you are really that good you dont need help from a manager to show you how to sell Rapivab and that statement shows how good you really are. Pretty sure we all know who this is one of two people and the truth to what you said is that you are girl, at least gossipp and complain like one instead of offering any value. You either didnt make the cut or will be cut shortly which is why you are on here deflecting. Sorry the good ole boys club consists of people who know their stuff. I along with others on the team received a call and all endorsed him. If you are still here and didnt get one, hopefully u get the message. Its funny how the people who work hard and sell and the ones who dont get let go. I am fine with that good ole boys club. Quit crying and do something.

 

I find this very funny how everyone is talking about Brian, Kevin, who is going to get the new manager position who isn't. I think any one of the Seqirus sales force could handle the job if they wanted it. I am already a manager, I manage my own territory. I have been with Seqirus part of last year and all of this year, and I did receive the ranking report from last year (so yes I do know where everyone ranked and got paid on Rapivab bonus) and I also received the numbers from the middle of November that we got a few weeks ago (so again I know what everyone has sold). All I am going to say about the managers is I wish they would be more in tune with each individual territory, hospitals, hospital systems and how each territory is different in the hospital(s) process for representatives and new products.
What I am going to talk about is how everyone with Seqirus should be looking for a new job. Yes we all should be looking now. If you have not taken notice yet, all these reports they are asking us to do, the lack of current sales, lack of communication, we should all be looking. The information they are asking for will be then passed over to the new IDN-account positions and they will be working all of our accounts with flu vaccines and Rapivab. These reports line the sales force up perfectly to get all the info we know about our territories, pass it onto these IDN-account lead positions and then let the sales force go. Remember that Seqirus also has an inside sales team who if you talk with your inside representative will tell you that their focus is 100% on the accounts that we have on our business plans.

 

I could not agree more with the above post. I am scared to death about this company and my job. This company is in the red big time and if you can not tell that with the conference calls that we are having you are drinking the kool aid. I took this job because I needed a job, but I am finding out this place is crazy, no communication, a manager who is threatened by his team (which I can understand, he does not know the hospital systems and how they work) and takes it all out on his team. Seqirus calls it growing pains, I call it come 2017 we have no job pains. Seqirus wake up and spend some money to make some money, and not just on inservices that do no good if the product isn't currently on formulary. I am warning everyone to start looking now and get out. Seqirus is a sinking ship with a sales force, when inside sales and the account mangers can handle everything we do in the field.

 

Honest feedback about Seqirus. (former employee who wasn't with Seqirus long) Went in with a total open minded. Started asking a few questions, got answers to those questions and did a little research and come to find out the answers that I received were a lie. Found out that my territory had been filled twice before, 1st time was for about 7 months, and the 2nd time was filled through a training period like I was. Once I started I realized this was not the right position for me. As an experienced sales rep, I did not need to have my hand held, or babysitting through the training and onboarding process (even if there is no formal training). There should be no need to mirco-manage every step and communicate when every step was complete (I was afraid that's the way he would have been in the field as well, micro-managing every step). Bottom line is I was not going to work for a manager like Brian. Even after reading all the posts about his style, I was open minded about the opportunity. Brain has to be the most closed minded manager I have worked for and I didn't work for him for long. Seqirus is going through some start-up growing pains, which I am sure they will get fixed out. What they need to get fixed first is the realistic start-up period and growth for a product, managers that do not lie to you about the open position, and a manager that respects you as a person, as an asset to the team, and not someone who feels you are micro-managing, holding hands with and taking baby steps. Talking to the few on the other team that reached out to me, seems these comments hold true across the team. Thank you Seqirus for the quick journey, I am sure things will get figured out, I just could not see eye to eye with a manger who I feel is always questioning my abilities.
Good company, decent pay, good benefits, good portfolio of products (if you get to sell them all), but one bad apple of a manager.

 

Poster #70. If you are paying attention Stevieboy did get the job. Guess you don't work for Seqirus. Or maybe you don't work for Stevieboy. Useless!

 

Seqirus is all about reports and administrative work. Get out and sell, and at night do all the daily reports that need to be done and submitted to management.
Seqirus should just pay for the sales data so we have accurate information to report, so the sales force isn't guessing on sales numbers, and the sales force can just go out and sell.

 

No you are wrong and useless. He is not the manager because I keep sending my admin stuff to somebody else and nobody has made an announcement otherwise. You are so bitter because you didn't get the job and choose to blame other people instead of looking in the mirror. Rumor is you won't be around much longer.

 

Happy Holidays!

 

Rumor is the sales force is not going to be around much longer.

 

Can I get some information about the Atlanta position that is open? This is the 3rd time it has been open in the last 6 months. What is going on with the territory? Manager issues (reading all these posts is Atlanta manager this Brian guy)?, product issues?
Any good advice would really help. Atlanta open 3 times in 6 month period isn't a good record. I have worked the hospitals in Atlanta for many years and they are not that complicated.

 

Honest info about the Atlanta position. Product is a very hard sell. Easy product to learn, very hard to sell as the product is priced way to high, along with lack of clinical data. Other countries use the product like crazy because government is paying for the drug and not insurance companies, and the cost in other countries is cheaper. Seqirus is going through a lot of growing pains currently and the forecast they have given out is way to high. The majority of the people in home office are on the vaccine line and not the Rapivab front which is where the majority of the focus is. Pay is decent, in my mind could have been better. Company needs to spend some money to make some money so paying for reports on vaccines and Rapivab would be a great source for spending some money and seeing the return on investment as this would tell the reps in the field where their business is coming from instead of just relying on what you are being told at the hospital. Now the real meat of the questions. Why is Atlanta open for a 3rd time in about 3 months. THE MANAGER! Brian. Everything you read on here is pretty much true. Micromanages, wants constant contact with you, will text at 9pm at night and on weekends. More importantly he does not understand the hospital business. Understanding that most hospitals require pharmacy/P&T, approval before physicians can order the product. He is a babysitter. He would be best suited for a primary care manager position where he understands the physicians and understands that you are in those offices weekly or bi-weekly, where as with hospitals you are in usually once a month sometimes more depending on the IDN and the hospital guidelines. Atlanta most you have to have appointments to access the hospitals and they do not give those out weekly. (If you work the Atlanta market you already know this.) I am speaking the truth here. The only reason this territory is open again is because of the manager Brian. If you are going to interview for this position ask him to provide the names of people in his district so you can reach out to them (4 of them have been with Seqirus since the start)
How do I know all this information you ask..... Well I was one of the reps who took the position and then left because of the micro management, and babysitting that Brian was doing as I was going through training.
Hope this information helps you make a informative decision.