Need Feedback on District Manager Position

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  1. Anonymous

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    I'm interviewing for a District Manager position. Can anyone give me the low down on compensation, commission, car-expenses, 401-Health? All feedback is appreciated.

    It was also mentioned that I would have to be a product specialist or something else before going into the DM role? What's that all about??
     

  2. Anonymous

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    So they tell you that you need to be a product specialist before you can be a DM? Yet, they are interviewing you for the DM position? Sounds like typical Applied. On a serious note it can be decent money, but the turnover is high and a lot depends on your region's market share.

    401k see the thread below.

    Health is mediocre but it's health insurance.

    Car expenses are below average.

    Comp is below average for a DM role in med device.

    Commission depends on growth (see above about region market share).

    Hope this helps.
     
  3. Anonymous

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    I would agree with most of the above posters comments, except the health benefits are horrendous. I am paying twice as much as my previous company for health benefits here & receiving 1/2 the coverage. Having a family of 4, it's disconcerting that I have to pay $500+ per month for the LOWEST cost coverage (higher deductible). If you opt for the PPO plan, you will be paying even more per month for a lower deductible. Trust me, I researched both quite thoroughly and any way you spin it sucks.
    401k: don't even waste your money. It's a joke. The company match is almost nothing, the options are average at best, and I can do a better job myself investing.
    Car allowance is avg to fair in my opinion.
    Total comp for a DM is around $160 but it's HIGHLY dependent on growth and what kind of team you have. If you have a territory entrenched in Applied products, youre screwed. The above poster was dead on and the revenue plan is based almost entirely on growth. The other components are based around stupid buckets your reps need to hit like selling Alexis retractors (not alot of growth opportunities in the country since the product has been around for YEARS. Or selling fios. This is probably the dumbest of all because doctors hate it (no need for a hole in a trocar) and Applied is trying to combat Ethicon/Covidien/reprocessing). At the end of the day, moral here is God awful, my reps are all looking for new jobs or already left, and the only reason I'm still here is because I make pretty good coin for only working 15 hrs a week.
     
  4. Anonymous

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    This company has great products and is making ton's of money! It is very sad that they don't pay their reps or managers anything! On top of that - their benefits SUCK! Changes are needed NOW in order to retain their top talent!! WAKE UP!!!!!!
     
  5. Anonymous

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    You forgot "no disability", but you can buy it through Applied for a good price! Many are not aware that you get good benefits if you live near RSM, you know family is always taken care of.
     
  6. Anonymous

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    I have a better question. What the hell do DM's actually do? Mine doesn't cover cases. Never does field rides. He has the occasional conf call to ask me what I'm doing to bring in new business, but other than that, he's useless. I've heard through the grapevine that the ZM's spend half their day on calls talking about insignificant things, CRM (which needs to go), and throwing reps underneath the proverbial bus left and right. Anyone care to agree or disagree here?
     
  7. Anonymous

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    You've heard through the grapevine? Seriously?
     
  8. Anonymous

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    Touchy touchy! If the shoe fits a$$hole.....and it's so true! Y so defensive? U DM's are useless. Now get off cafepharma and get back on another conf call with DM and DG. We have a big push this qtr to sell more fios!
     
  9. Anonymous

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    How is the product pipeline?
     
  10. Anonymous

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    Gelport is coming out in new colors.
     
  11. Anonymous

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    Read the responses in the blogs to summarize what kind of competition you will be facing. Then ask yourself can I beat them? That is what Applied is looking for in a District Manager.
     
  12. Anonymous

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    One can surmise that morale is at an all time low.
     
  13. Anonymous

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    Answer the reciprocal question of why morale is at an all time low and you have the answer to Applied Medicals greatest problem.
     
  14. Anonymous

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    Pay no attention to the monkeys throwing feces at each other they eventually end up eating it anyway.
     
  15. Anonymous

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    Which is why you were hired in the first place????
     
  16. Anonymous

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    Applied is looking for managers that can outshine the negativity like a lot of the comments on this blog.

    Is the Applied Medical trouble free? No, it is a privately owned company that has financial constraints in order to pass on savings to the customer. As a privately owned company is has a different management structure than publicly traded companies.

    Has there been employee and account issues? Sure there has been considering the competition and self absorbed sales reps. Is this an easy industry to work in? If it were easy then everyone would be selling for a company where they can easily make 100k by hitting quota. Are there things that need to be changed in order to turn around certain markets?

    That is why Applied Medical will hire you as a DM, they are looking for results within Applied Medical sales model.
     
  17. Anonymous

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    What exactly is your sales model? I just called to find out and after listening to some monkey say ur a "new generation medical" company, I laughed & hung up. Wtf does that mean exactly? Cheapest materials wins? Treat the doctors and [from what I gather from reading this board, the employees] like crap? U guys crack me up
     
  18. Anonymous

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    Single source manufacturing, abiding by laws, providing cost savings to hospitals. What sales manager is dumb enough to treat a surgeon poorly?
     
  19. Anonymous

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    Get real Jack. Everyone in the industry knows how cheap you guys are. Read the Advamed Code of Conduct. Newsflash for all of you reps at Applied: you CAN take surgeons and hospital staff out to dinner or lunch or buy them a friggin bagel, but there has to be some sort of medical educational component associated to it and there are dollar thresholds. That's a fact. Read it. Applied Medical flat out LIES to everyone and makes you all believe its "illegal." It's not. It's THEIR policy. I know this because i know people at Covidien, Ethicon, Stryker and some other small companies and they all abide by the same rules. Applied is just f'ng cheap.
     
  20. Anonymous

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    Biggest constraint, the Family. They stay private to keep their pockets lined, not so they can pass savings on to customers. They use 'Team Members' like toilet paper. I have seen people fired for no reason, and family members who straight out screw up don't get promoted they just move them to another department or create one for them. I have by some miracle been here just over four years and just keep my head down and don't associate with family members, so that way they don't know your name.