If you are reading this and curious about the openings popping up on the website, keep watching. They will be adding up. It is suspect that a job applicant to take advice on Cafepharma but here’s a warning - do not apply unless your home is being repossessed.
This is THE WORST pharma (if you want to call it that) company or damn close. Calls per day, micromanagement, weekly numbers grind (what patient?), PIPland, and worse yet they have a twenty-something Harvard grad who is buddies with the CEO who has been given a job entitled Director of Field/Sales Force Effectiveness. No sales experience, condescending and grills you with excel sheets about the ROI on calls entered versus sales. We all get that you need ROI but she is clueless personified and is the kiss of death if she starts having meetings with you.
The sad thing is they have a reasonably good product they mismanage. The reps are very good people but this not a place for pharma reps. This is a place that should hire only people who are renal dietitians or someone who works(ed) in a dialysis unit - not for any reason other than they have relationships that can pull this product through. It’s not a clinical sell. It’s like working at GNC that wants to be sheik biotech pharma.
Prior auths, 2/3 out of 10 approved. Walking in the wind and peeing. Why is it a good product? It has a unique iron benefit. That’s it.
They have a new product coming out but it has failed CV safety tests and will have a black box warning next year...maybe. Second in line to Astra Zeneca. This company can not launch a patient assistance program without screwing it up. They are HIGH if they think their setup can launch a major drug like vadadustat without F’ing this up. Good Lord.
So if you need the job or willing to take the risk that you survive the inevitable downsizing to merge with Otsuka, climb aboard the show.
Disgruntled employee? Maybe. But this is pretty close to the truth. Thanks Dell for coming in and destroying a potentially good thing when we could have been a contender with vada. And cancer and Candy start with C. Stop hiding behind these people and find a real leader BOD.
This is THE WORST pharma (if you want to call it that) company or damn close. Calls per day, micromanagement, weekly numbers grind (what patient?), PIPland, and worse yet they have a twenty-something Harvard grad who is buddies with the CEO who has been given a job entitled Director of Field/Sales Force Effectiveness. No sales experience, condescending and grills you with excel sheets about the ROI on calls entered versus sales. We all get that you need ROI but she is clueless personified and is the kiss of death if she starts having meetings with you.
The sad thing is they have a reasonably good product they mismanage. The reps are very good people but this not a place for pharma reps. This is a place that should hire only people who are renal dietitians or someone who works(ed) in a dialysis unit - not for any reason other than they have relationships that can pull this product through. It’s not a clinical sell. It’s like working at GNC that wants to be sheik biotech pharma.
Prior auths, 2/3 out of 10 approved. Walking in the wind and peeing. Why is it a good product? It has a unique iron benefit. That’s it.
They have a new product coming out but it has failed CV safety tests and will have a black box warning next year...maybe. Second in line to Astra Zeneca. This company can not launch a patient assistance program without screwing it up. They are HIGH if they think their setup can launch a major drug like vadadustat without F’ing this up. Good Lord.
So if you need the job or willing to take the risk that you survive the inevitable downsizing to merge with Otsuka, climb aboard the show.
Disgruntled employee? Maybe. But this is pretty close to the truth. Thanks Dell for coming in and destroying a potentially good thing when we could have been a contender with vada. And cancer and Candy start with C. Stop hiding behind these people and find a real leader BOD.