A WEEK AFTER THANKSGIVING!!

Give thanks if you are safe. You will potentially have conf calls on Monday after thanksgiving to go over changes in the sales force. You will find out during your stay home "calls" by the end of the week for your new assignment and potential new manager. Selling in the field the following week, conf calls with your new teams and home study for overlapping products to follow. This allows time for "displaced" reps to back fill open positions and have everyone trained on new products and in place by national meetings. By this time your year end rating will already be completed in the system by your previous manager for the "new" manager to sign off on.

Can be 30-40% reductions across the board in each OU. Hardest hit can be re, cvm and Gen meds managers.

There will be larger territories and portfolio selling. Criteria has already been set and determined. Last years ratings, geography, tenure and awards all have a role to play. Chronic care teams report to 1 portfolio manager. Neuro/psych combined and will overlap on products as well.

God bless us all!!

This will happen the week after dec 3rd. Heard from many sources. It will go down similar to this. Cardio/met will be cut, mgrs gone, neuro/psych combined,cv/re cut in half. 1000-1200 affected nationwide.
 






If I have learned anything in my tenure in this industry it's that half the stuff you read in here turns out to be valid. I believe a reorg is coming after thanksgiving and they are keeping it very quiet.
 






Novartis plans on rolling out a new vacation package for the week after thanksgiving. Current employees chosen by previous rankings etc will go from 10-15 days of vacation plus 5 personal days of vacation up to a full 365 days of vacation. Unfortunately it will be unpaid vacation. The new vacation initiative will be called layoff.
 






Don't know about the announcement date, but the rumor of everyone going portfolio is def. true---one of the managers who thought he was muted (?) let it slip while we were waiting for conference call to start that he had received the REclast/EP training materials for his CV reps in the mail...oops! So much for that secret!

Home training this year, certify at national meeting in Jan. A lot of territories in CA/OR/WA are already portfolio selling--honestly its not that big of a deal. The territory next to ours is low potential, they were cut down in the last layoff and they all have everything--they love it--say it is actually easier to coordinate, they choose who leads with what drug, and all report to one manager. So, hopefully a positive for those reps who will still be employed...
 






I hate to say it but it looks like changes are coming down the week of December 3rd. Just heard from a few people with reliable sources all saying they heard the same date. Time to shop on the bravo website!!!

Already did :) Everyone have a blessed thanksgiving. Our future with Novartis has already been written so we might as well enjoy the holiday.
 






Novartis plans on rolling out a new vacation package for the week after thanksgiving. Current employees chosen by previous rankings etc will go from 10-15 days of vacation plus 5 personal days of vacation up to a full 365 days of vacation. Unfortunately it will be unpaid vacation. The new vacation initiative will be called layoff.

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Novartis plans on rolling out a new vacation package for the week after thanksgiving. Current employees chosen by previous rankings etc will go from 10-15 days of vacation plus 5 personal days of vacation up to a full 365 days of vacation. Unfortunately it will be unpaid vacation. The new vacation initiative will be called layoff.

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anyone else hear about a manager's call from 4-7? if there are any manager's reading this while on the call can you give us some insight? would love to know the skinny. It is the week after thanksgiving after all, according to this something should be going down!!
 






anyone else hear about a manager's call from 4-7? if there are any manager's reading this while on the call can you give us some insight? would love to know the skinny. It is the week after thanksgiving after all, according to this something should be going down!!

i heard this is for psych and neuro managers. Any GM managers have a similar call?
 






anyone else hear about a manager's call from 4-7? if there are any manager's reading this while on the call can you give us some insight? would love to know the skinny. It is the week after thanksgiving after all, according to this something should be going down!!

True, Neuro and Psych managers had to be home between 4-7 today. They also have to be home all day tomorrow. We should know our fate by tomorrow or the next day.