AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals Reviews

Pros

Salary and benefits package Bonus structure and vehicle

Cons

Found messaging physicians a difficult way to sell.

Pros

excellent benefits, competetive salary, good training, excellent industry, company car, relaxed management as long as you perform, competetive products in cardiovascular and neurology as well as respiratory and cancer

Cons

some products reaching an end of patent life which might ultimately effect job security. pharmaceutical industry as a whole is oversaturated in the sales force

Advice to Senior Management

need to acquire smaller companies with promising pipelines and/or team up with smaller companies to utilize astrazencas existing relationships with physicians

Pros

Work life balance, great benefits,you are not just another rep, they seem to value your opinions and try to make the best decions for the company as well as the patients that use their products

Cons

At times things move a little slow, but it is usually due to ultimately making the best decision and that takes time.

Pros

Work Life Balance is good
Benefits are fair

Cons

Missing from AZ are the key things that make people work hard:
Consistency
A future
Input
Mission

Advice to Senior Management

Better development for sales roles to move into other divisons of the Company. Would be nice to see some diversity at director level.

Pros

Professional growth, working relationships, co-workers are pretty good.

Cons

THis is a shrinking company folks, so the number of available positions will be fewer in the future, most likely.

Advice to Senior Management

If it were my place, continue rightsizing until the past expiries stop and new compounds allow for growth. It will happen eventually....

Pros

Pay, benefits, car, co-workers are very nice and good working environment

Cons

No successful future at AZ....no pipline...Az is truely big pharma...all about marketing, role playing and manager ride alongs. Only prob is manager is only goal is observing rep unstead of taking the time to know the customer, their needs, and building relationships. Way too many managers that add no value to experienced reps.

Advice to Senior Management

They are trying but need R&D to be 100x better and also look for first in class meds. No deep pipeline and unfortunate as we have long ways to go in beating cancer

Pros

People, products and work environment

Cons

Big pharma issues and industry pressures from external environment

Advice to Senior Management

Business beyond Resize and Reshape?

Pros

-Great people
-Great products
-Company VERY well respected by Drs
-Good work/life/balance

Cons

-Management always seem to be 1 year behind. Projects are launched before all the etails have been worked out.
-Career progression depends solely on your manager.
-Bonus structure is a joke - no transparency and always a reason each quarter why it wont be paid out
-Metrics are used as the barometer here - no importance placed on value of customer

Advice to Senior Management

Before you launch something make sure all the details are worked out.
Base bonus structure on market share, not from targets set in an office in Singapore

Pros

They respect you. The compensation is quite competitive. Benefits are pretty good too. They strike a decent balance between work, life.

Cons

It would be nice to cut out some of those processes that are not necessary to speed up the decision making to move thing forward.

Advice to Senior Management

US business accounts for about 50% of the total business, US management team should be the one making speedy decision after careful consideration instead of letting UK mgr hold thing up.

Pros

benefits, salary, vacation time, opinion surveys, products

Cons

decrease in number of clinical specialist, clinical monitoring positions

Advice to Senior Management

put the employees and patient health first