Does anyone have any real information about the Respiratory Sales Positions?

Discussion in 'AstraZeneca' started by Anonymous, Oct 8, 2014 at 3:47 PM.

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  1. Anonymous

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    Will we have to post to interview for them or will we simply be selected? What is your opinion on these positions? Will they simply be overlay reps covering a larger geography calling on only specialists? Or will they call on large volume primary care as well?

    If you are currently selling Crestor only, would this be a good move? Crestor is gone in April of 2016. Will the Crestor reps pick up Movantik and the gout drug? Maybe an increased emphasis on Symbicort as well?
     

  2. Anonymous

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    Symbicort will be gone in 2017, or sooner with a successful patent challenge. The constipation drug will hit a brick wall unless AZ gives it away like Farxiga. The gout drug is practically an orphan drug. In 2016, XR and Crestor will lose patent protection. Billions of dollars will fly out the door. AZ will have to continue to give their drugs away to gain market share, reducing profit, EPS, etc. The pipeline will prove to be a joke. Make your own decisions.
     
  3. Anonymous

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    If I were you I would look for a job with a different pharma company. AZ has a crappy company culture along with bleak products in the pipeline. Unless AZ acquires new drugs there is going to be little to promote in the future.
     
  4. Anonymous

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    AZ will be a generics company in a few years if the name AZ continues.

    Everything with patent protection is going away. The profits on patent protected drugs is gargantuan. Drug reps used to say that these profits are necessary in order to pour in to R & D, but AZ and most other majors have farmed out R & D. The chickens are coming home to roost.


    The implication is, is it fair for the executives, seeing this coming, to write golden parachute agreements for themselves? Does that not disincent them from making the entity a going concern? Why should they care when no matter what happens they get to live like third world dictators?
     
  5. Anonymous

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    Has anyone heard of any realignment going on? Are they looking at realigning for the constipation drug? Are they keeping the same head count for diabetes? Seems like it is time to do some rearranging.
     
  6. Anonymous

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    Supposedly CBD's from primary care have already interviewed for Respiratory CBD jobs. They will then pick the managers, or at least offer them.
     
  7. Anonymous

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    I've heard two things about the constipation drug. It is a shitty drug, and it may not come out too quickly.
     
  8. Anonymous

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    No interviews, hand picked right down to the reps. Enjoy your day.
     
  9. Anonymous

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    These positions are going to be hybrid specialty/hospital jobs. The positions are going to fall under the Medimmune umbrella. There will not be interviews or self selection. The team will be made up of current respiratory overlays and Medimmune respiratory reps, if you are not currently on either of these teams than you have close to a zero percent chance to be selected.
     
  10. Anonymous

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    I had a discussion with my DSM today about these jobs. This is not what he had heard.
     
  11. Anonymous

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    very few Medimmune. Almost all will be pulled from PC1 or RESP positions. That is, if you were considered a better than average rep. If you weren't they would look at others, but you would at least need to have sold Symbicort.
     
  12. Anonymous

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    I wish they would just tell us already and end the speculation!
     
  13. Anonymous

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    go on and re-read original post in this thread. It's a laughable cut and paste of what some consultant got assigned to research on us for a competitor. First, Competitor, you got smoked because you coudl easily cut and past these questions anonymously onto CP yourself, then monitor the replies. You'd save a LOT of money. Second, poster, will you ever feel badly that you constantly over-inflate your network and have to resort to these anonymous bait-like posts? Any guilt for being fake and always conning people into giving you free intel? zero shame.
     
  14. Anonymous

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    The Resp. Specialty positions will NOT fall under Medimmune/Specialty Care umbrella. That is reserved for Oncology, Infectious disease and CNS (ask a CBD or someone higher up and you will get this answer). Also, you do NOT have to necessarily be a current resp. overlay rep to be asked to accept this position, although it does help your chances. No interviews. If you fall into the criteria, then the judgment of management that you fit the position, you will get a call from DM asking you if you want the position.
     
  15. Anonymous

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    What happens if you don't want the position due to an increase in geography or you don't like the new manager you would be reporting to?
     
  16. Anonymous

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    Are there any Managers within AZ that are actually "likeable?"
     
  17. Anonymous

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    Yes, there are. The ones who understand what an open fly means on a field ride.
     
  18. Anonymous

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    You ride with your fly open or your DSM rides that way?
     
  19. Anonymous

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    They both ride that way so they can play swords together...
     
  20. Anonymous

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    Got a call today for this position. Turned it down for many reasons main one being the manager. Dsm very pushy on the phone and not happy that I didn't want it. Announcements are being made on Monday and calls were bring made today. Thought this was optional not mandatory assignment.