Animal Health vs. Pharmaceutical Sales Rep

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Lets see...you want to go from being a physician to being a pharma sales rep? All I can say is that you need to take a test to check your mental stability. Go on any Pharma board and see how bad it is being a sales rep. Also lay-offs are coming for everyone. 20-30 years ago it was great, but not any longer. The only position you should remotely be looking at is a MSL (Medical Science Liasion) and nothing else. As a sales rep you would be a fish out of water.
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Absolutely correct.

This industry is garbage.

Best move for newbies in sales is real estate/insurance, no question about it.

M S L is good for sure, if you have the background for it. Pharmaceuticals/Medical industry is a scam for the most part, if you carefully look at it.

The biggest tell? Well, are people living longer? NO. they are not. The lie is over.
 












Depends on what you are looking for. Lower stress, no insurance or formulary issues (for the most part), minimal competition for doctor face time, easy of access, softer egos, receptive staff, etc. This is animal health. On the other hand, if you’re basically money motivated and don’t really feel the need to take pride in making a difference in patient lives, and pretty much the opposite of everything I said above, go the human pharma / medical direction. I’ve done both - you couldn’t hold a gun to my head to make me go the human route again.
 






anonymous said:
Depends on what you are looking for. Lower stress, no insurance or formulary issues (for the most part), minimal competition for doctor face time, easy of access, softer egos, receptive staff, etc. This is animal health. On the other hand, if you’re basically money motivated and don’t really feel the need to take pride in making a difference in patient lives, and pretty much the opposite of everything I said above, go the human pharma / medical direction. I’ve done both - you couldn’t hold a gun to my head to make me go the human route again.
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Human Pharmaceuticals don’t make a difference in patients lives? Really? Bet you have a prescription drug benefit.

let’s play a game. Imagine if all human pharmaceuticals were removed from the market. What do you think would happen? Not contrast that to all meds for our pets. Which would have the biggest adverse effect on society?
 






You are completely missing the spirit of the post. The question was human versus animal pharma sales positions, not products. And having done both, the vast majority of human pharma reps contribute little to the overall industry and clinical knowledge of the drugs they are so supposedly “selling”.

OK, play this game. Take a poll of all human pharma reps versus animal health reps, and you’ll see a direct correlation between human pharma and dissatisfaction, and animal pharma and positive job satisfaction. Hell this website is full of evidence of this very thing.
 






anonymous said:
You are completely missing the spirit of the post. The question was human versus animal pharma sales positions, not products. And having done both, the vast majority of human pharma reps contribute little to the overall industry and clinical knowledge of the drugs they are so supposedly “selling”.

OK, play this game. Take a poll of all human pharma reps versus animal health reps, and you’ll see a direct correlation between human pharma and dissatisfaction, and animal pharma and positive job satisfaction. Hell this website is full of evidence of this very thing.
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I for one wouldn’t be happy with the total comp in Animal Health. I’m in specialty Biologics selling innovative therapies...so not your typical big Pharma Gen Med gig.
 






You are most likely right, comp for a manufacturers rep on the animal health side is not great compared to even new human pharma reps in mainstream companies calling on FP‘s. If you can get a distributor rep job with a kick ass territory you could hit 200K a year. Sadly, the days are numbered for the distributor rep as those jobs will more than likely not exist in five years. I’m actually surprised they still exist today.
 












anonymous said:
You are completely missing the spirit of the post. The question was human versus animal pharma sales positions, not products. And having done both, the vast majority of human pharma reps contribute little to the overall industry and clinical knowledge of the drugs they are so supposedly “selling”.

OK, play this game. Take a poll of all human pharma reps versus animal health reps, and you’ll see a direct correlation between human pharma and dissatisfaction, and animal pharma and positive job satisfaction. Hell this website is full of evidence of this very thing.
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you can get away with a lot more in animal health which adds to job satisfaction. If you are a guy and can have multiple women report to you then you are in even better shape. Liz T has set the tone for the women in our company. They know if you sleep with the boss your job and promotions are secure. Kinda nice to have some pickings.
 






Yes you can get away with a lot more, forget the Compliance and HR webinars…if you like your male colleagues asking you what your wearing, requesting a bikini pics, what’s your room number etc..taking pics of LT tits & showing the team at dinner its the place for you…don’t forget working with diverters & paying off staff to sell product will get you more money, promotions and President Circle wins just ask the strategic actt manager in GA
 












I disagree dumb A$$…just ask the 2 doc practice running thru 200K in Apoquel..I get it.. if I chased that much a$$ on the side l’d feel need to take my wife on a nice trip too
 






anonymous said:
Yes you can get away with a lot more, forget the Compliance and HR webinars…if you like your male colleagues asking you what your wearing, requesting a bikini pics, what’s your room number etc..taking pics of LT tits & showing the team at dinner its the place for you…don’t forget working with diverters & paying off staff to sell product will get you more money, promotions and President Circle wins just ask the strategic actt manager in GA
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Apparently knowledge of basic grammar and punctuation isn’t necessary.
 






Looking for honest feedback/opinions: from
those who switched to animal health from human, is it really much better? I’m considering pursuing companion animal health sales and leaving the human Pharma side. Have almost 5 years combined experience in primary care and specialty and am so tired of the metrics, calls per day, lunch sign in sheets, access issues, etc. etc. As a pet owner I can imagine that vets have emergencies come up and will cancel meetings on you, but I’ve heard they’re much more welcoming to reps and it’s more of an actual sales job/account management. Just don’t want to make the big jump if it’s still just waiting for a signature and delivering lunch for a 5 minute conversation if that makes sense….
 






Pre-covid it was night and day better than human Pharma. But these days with a good chunk of hospitals still doing curbside, and ALL of the hospitals short-staffed - it’s a lot of unanswered or delayed-answered emails/vms, drop offs and metrics. Access to decision makers is more difficult than ever before - no matter the company or products. Animal Hospital people are nicer in general and hopefully it gets back to pre-covid access and territory management, but at this point it sounds pretty similar to your current gig.
 






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