Pro Chem, Inc. reviews

I was hired in with the company with the understanding that I would receive an account list after six months. I was also told that the previous sales representative left to pursue pharmaceutical sales and that I would have the entire territory.They also will tell you that they will help you. This was all lies! The previous representative was fired after 15 years on Christmas Eve. There is no management team/help in place for each territory. They will give you a rookie coach. If you are lucky, you will have one that will help, I didn't. In fact she told me that she hated coaching! My territory was cherry picked by five other sales representatives. Some didn't even live in my state and upper management could care less. I drove 800-1000 miles a week to find left over scraps. The other thing that is bad about the company is there are no training guidelines in place. It differs between the office, coaches and management. This makes the company look bad to customers. I had to do research on my own to be effective at my job. I believe that this is because they want women to flirt with customers and do other unprofessional things to get orders. This has been my experience with the other representative in my area. The company doesn't care that someone behaves this way. They only care about money. If you don't believe me ask other competitors in your area. Pro Chem is know to hire women between 25-35. They will use them until they get about 50 and push them out the door. My advice to anyone considering going with this company is to run! I just found out about this website and it would have definitely made a difference for me.

When you are hired, you are told that the goals are attainable and that you should be able to make two sales per day. I consider myself a good salesperson and a hard worker, but it took me three days to land my first account and only to people that I knew. It is hard to gain access to the decision makers in many of these industrial accounts due to security and when I did get in front of the buyer, they wanted samples of the product (which I didn’t have due to cost and discouragement from Pro Chem to give them out) or they flat out said no due to prices being 2 to 3 times higher than that of the competitors. When I did make a sale, it was difficult to get repeat business. My territory had been notorious for its inability to keep reps. Lots of turnover, yet I was told that I was the problem, not the territory. Very stressful because of pressure to make $650 worth of sales a day. If you didn’t make quota, you’d get a phone call. Took a toll on my mental health. Luckily, 4 months after I left Pro Chem, I found a great sales job with much better base and bonus structure, plus company car, PTO, expense account, etc. where I have been ranked as high as #3 in the company for generating new customers, so obviously I don’t suck at sales.