Vernalis Contract

Discussion in 'Syneos Health' started by anonymous, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:38 PM.

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  1. anonymous

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    Employees here are not only worried about the ethics of Vernalis leadership but also the legality of what we are asked to do. VP of sales mandating reps to call on decile 10 "pain" clinics to save the failing product and or their jobs. Clinics where the majority of their clientele do not suffer from cough and cold but are addicted to opioids. I personally have a family member who died of an opioid overdose. I refuse to call on these clinics as there are plenty of valid ways to get the business until I can get another job.
     

  2. anonymous

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    No person is asking reps to call on pain clinics. That is incorrect. They are asking to call on 8-10 deciles that would Rx cough and cold products. Many issues with the company but ethics has not been one of them.
     
  3. anonymous

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    What rock did you just crawl out from under? Several reps and managers have been fired by the VP because they pushed back on calling on some of the so called "decile 8 -10" clinics. During the roll over from InVentiv to Vernalis, highly ranked employees were let go and given no reason. Most TRUE cough and cold clinics are probably decile 5 - 8.
     
  4. anonymous

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    Anyone with credible information that the VP of sales is directly or indirectly mandating that the sales force promote opioids in clinics that clearly do not treat conditions for which the product is approved should contact the Department of Justice hotline at 1-202-514-2000.

    This is a serious matter where people's lives are at stake.
     
  5. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Not surprising. He and CEO are from AZ which is best known for off label promotion. Personal profit over ethics and integrity. They need to float the boat and it is sinking fast and will be sunk by next summer. Use your phone to discreetly voice record anyone discussing this and you can earn big as whistle blower. I know people that do this on their field rides just in case something of use is said.
     
  6. anonymous

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    The smartest and most ethical leader in the company RG left and went back to his previous company. He advocated volume over margin and ethics from the start and was ignored. Now we are relaunching the product for the third time with a co-pay card that has been revamped and revamped again. Products and cards get only one chance to get it right in this market. Will ride this out until the company collapses or I find another job which ever comes first.
     
  7. anonymous

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    Tuzistra is one of the most promotion sensitive products I have ever sold. So sensitive that the only reps with over 10 scripts per week have a few HCPs that want to get into their pants. When they find out it will not happen, scripts drop back to single digits written by a few HCPs who enjoy the free lunches. Not a good value proposition for investors.
     
  8. anonymous

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    This place is a joke. The leadership is pathetic. Selling cough medicine that has a highly inflated price to customers who haven't seen a cough patient in months has resulted in a new goal - finding a decent company to work for. One with good products, good R&D, and great leadership. Now time to deliver that lunch to an office that has not written an Rx but my former AZ manager insists I have to show activity for. Again, this place is a joke but I am grateful to know that I will be diligent in NOT working for someone from AZ ever again.
     
  9. anonymous

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    i am guessing the AZ leadership has turned this joke around by now? After the major producers were either forced out or quit, I would say the company should be closing in on their goal of 100K+ prescriptions per year ( break even point ).

    I heard the VP from India is the "come back kid" and has had a full year to prove it.

    Stock has gone from 60 pence down to 15 pence under his direction. Perhaps he shorted the stock like the other VP and made a few bucks while he was at it.
     
  10. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    You got everything right except #6 Blames reps and management. Managers are never held accountable for anything. They are "protected". Reps get the blame for EVERYTHING always.
     
  11. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    You are sort of correct. Most of the blame of a failing launch goes to the Reps in most companies. Vernalis has already run off an InVentiv National Sales Director, their own VP at launch and several managers. 20% of the sales force got the ax while 60% left voluntarily.

    All of these people were replaced with AZ thinking this would turn the tide. Problem is and will continue to be the DRUG and the PRICE!!!
     
  12. anonymous

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    Price of Vernalis stock now 12 pence ( about 10 cents ). Is the VP wizz from AZ in Alcatraz or did they send him to Singh Singh? I am staying out of the pill mills with Tuzistra given the Opioid crisis and my conscious no matter what the VP says.
     
  13. anonymous

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    Stock at 8 pence or about 7 cents per share, the majority of good managers and reps have left and gone on to real companies. Guru Gurdish still thinks Tuzasstra is not selling because reps and managers are lazy and incompetent.

    After all, why can't an innovative, revolutionary drug that is modestly priced take off like a rocket?

    Perhaps his demonic pupils, fake sincerity, no soul and no leadership had something to do with the downfall of what could have been a good company.
     
  14. anonymous

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    Lol Guru Gurdish! He creates the most demotivating environment. His quarterly incentive plans favor folks not driving real business as they are based on share and share change of a ridiculously low volume product. Rep can bang one customer and win Presidents club. One customer can go on vacation for a week and the rep is put on a PIP.

    Vernalis needs to get rid of him and start over for the third time as a company
     
  15. anonymous

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    Guru Gurdish and his AZ clan ran the company out of business. Took investor money on way out.

    RIP Vernalis!
     
  16. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Sandford S and Gurdish S, you are living examples of when poor management kills companies. Ian hired you and was sorely misled by your claims of past AZ successes. Took the two of you only 2 years to tank the entire US organization. Pitiful.