Pharma Jobs Help

This site is meant to help people who want to get into the pharmaceutical/biotech industry with resources, links, and advice. For experienced reps wanting to make a change, this is the place to find the links to companies, recruiters, job sites. (For some browsers, the links are at the bottom of the page) Image hosting by Photobucket

Monday, February 27, 2006

Ventiv Expansion

I received this information and thought it worth passing along. If interested, feel free to contact Christine at the number listed below. Good luck!

I have a client doing a market expansion. Their original sales force calls
on key opinion leaders selling a high end product for a life threatening
illness called PAH or Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.

To compete in the market, because Pfizer in revamping an existing drug and
calling it Ravadio, their target is the internal medicine doctors, they want
to hire 40 reps across the country.

Here's how it works...Each candidate will be interviewed and hired by the
client, they will report to an the Manager but because the client does not
have the back office staff to handle the operations needs of that many reps,
these 40 new hires will have their check, car allowance and benefits paid by
Ventiv healthcare, that will be for the time of the contract only.
After that 12 to 18 month period should things go as planned, each rep will
become a full fledged employee with all the benefits and compensation as
that of their specialty sales force. Each candidate must understand that
they could become unemployed at the end if the contract but that is
unlikely. They also could be kept on based on there performance and put into
the specialty sales force. Either way it is a great opportunity for someone
who may have left the industry and wants back in....someone who may have
recently become unemployed or someone who is tired of selling a me to type
of product and really wants to be involved with a very high end very
specialized product with a life threatening disease state.


I am looking for pharmaceuticals reps that might have been displaced, left
the industry and want to return, or primary care reps that want specialty
and would only have 2-5 years experience, This is a phenomenal company with
a great pipeline of products.

Territories:

San Francisco Bay Area 3 Reps
Los Angeles/ Orange County 3 reps
San Diego 1 Rep
Seattle 1 Rep
Portland OR 1 Rep
Minneapolis 2 Reps
Chicago 3 Reps
Dallas TX 1 Rep
Houston TX 1 Rep
Austin TX 1 Rep
Phoenix 1 Rep
Denver 1 Rep
Detroit 1 Rep
Western Michigan 1 Rep
St Louis 1 Rep
New Orleans 1 Rep
Omaha NE 1 Rep
Indianapolis 2 Reps
Boston 2 Reps
Manhatten NY 1 Rep
Long Island NY 1 Rep
White Plains NY 1 Rep
New Jersey 1 Rep
Philadelphia 2 Reps
Pittsburgh 1 Rep
Washington DC 2 Reps
Baltimore 1 Rep
W Virginia/Williamsburg area 1 Rep
Memphis/Nashville 1 Rep

Please let me know if you know of anyone for this.

Thanks
Christine Poltorak
SFG International
908-272-9600 x19

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Pharmaceutical Representative Magazine


I've received Pharmaceutical Representative magazine for years. As a drug rep, most companies have it sent to their reps for free. They have great articles on the industry, selling, politics, medicines, etc. Heidi (in Florida) suggested the link for the magazine's website as well as a link to their list of pharmaceutical representative associations. Makes great sense as a networking tool to have access to this list. Thanks, Heidi. Will someone please hire her soon! Here are the links...

Pharmaceutical Representative Magazine

Rep Association Directory

Monday, February 20, 2006

Tips for new reps (and new managers)



This comes from an article by Janet H. Cho in the (Cleveland) Plain Dealer. It's meant for new leaders, but most are smart ideas for new reps, especially those working with pods/counterparts/alliance partners.

Here's a direct link to the article: The Plain Dealer.

Under a section titled Do's and don'ts for new leaders:

Do:
  • Be humble.

  • Ask lots of questions.

  • Meet one-on-one with everyone you'll be supervising.

  • Use plural nouns whenever possible.

  • Create an enthusiastic, upbeat, inspiring atmosphere.

  • Seek out mentors, both inside and outside your company

  • Keep your ears open to new ideas and your office door open to feedback


  • Don't:
  • Be bossy.

  • Go around barking orders.

  • Bully or belittle the people who report to you.

  • Be afraid to admit you don't know something.

  • Assume you know more than your colleagues about how to do their jobs.

  • Forget to praise your staff in public and criticize them in private.

  • Stop learning about your company, your industry and your competition
  • Saturday, February 18, 2006

    CareerBuilder.com


    Here's my weekly update. For the time being, I'll try to update the postings once-a-week, with updates to the listed companies and headhunters as needed. If you'd like to be a part of an update list, sign up on my new link to the right...

    Career Builder.com is a nice site for job searching. You can specify by zip code, category, etc. Worth checking out. Once nice option is that this site allows you to Exclude national and regional jobs (and concentrate on postings that are specific to your area).

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    Saturday, February 11, 2006

    Pharma Yellow pages


    Thanks again to Heidi for this link. There's a list of about 150 drug companies with websites. Some are extremely small and some don't have U.S. sales forces, but it's a good list of pharma companies. I have only listed some of the larger companies (and I keep adding to it). If someone wants me to add others, please feel free to suggest it. This is a work in progress and I plan on adding (or subtracting) as the readers see necessary.

    Pharma Yellow Pages

    As always, good luck! And send suggestions.

    Top 50 Pharmaceutical Companies



    Thanks to Heidi for this tip.

    She recommends this site (Pharmexec.com) for research purposes, specifically the article mentioned below. The top 50 pharmaceutical companies are listed (for 2004) along with additional research info.

    It is a PDF file and worth checking out for those starting their research.

    Top 50 Pharmaceutical Companies

    Tuesday, February 07, 2006

    Johnson & Johnson



    The website for Johnson & Johnson has some great search capabilities. They also have many different companies to search from. Be sure to use their search controls or you'll be scrolling through about 3000 job opportunities all over the country. One final plus about this company is that they have pharma jobs, biotech jobs, medical sales jobs, etc. It all depends on your interests. Good luck!

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    Job Agents tip

    If you've ever gone to Monster.com, you've probably tried their job agents. Using your criteria to search, they will email you daily/weekly/monthly an update of jobs available based on THAT criteria. Well, many of the company websites will also do that. Medzilla is also good about that and they send some of the message board postings. So, when you do a search at Sanofi, for example, be sure to add your search to a job agent. Follow their instructions, it's pretty easy and only a few steps. Then you don't have to keep going to their site to search. Good luck!

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    Sunday, February 05, 2006

    Medzilla



    Medzilla is probably my favorite search site for pharma/biotech jobs. The reasons are simple:
    1. It's free
    2. Many companies and headhunters post positions here
    3. You can apply directly from the site
    4. There's a great message board system where people are much more sincere and kind than some of the other sites. If you ask a question, you can expect an answer from an experienced rep (usually) who may already be with that company.

    Check it out...

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    Saturday, February 04, 2006

    First Post

    Welcome to Pharma Jobs Help. I am currently in the Pharmaceutical industry as a sales rep. I have about 14 years experience with two different companies. This blog is in reponse to the many questions I get about getting into the industry. I plan on putting many links here to help people who would like to get in, but don't know how. This will allow me to refer people here to have all these resources available in one site. If anyone would like to contribute, that would be great.

    I will also put interview tips/links here. Fortunately, I have been able to sit in numerous times on interviews and seen the many mistakes people make. Hopefully, I can help you avoid these problems. And best of all, the price of all this info is:

    FREE...

    You can have all this info for free, mostly because I wouldn't know how to charge for it, but also because I would have liked to use a web site like this when I was searching for a pharmaceutical job.

    Regards,

    Nicotine Jones

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