Fierce Pharma Marketing | Emily Wasserman
Job satisfaction can be elusive, as pharma sales reps
know all too well. A new report from MedReps.com, a job board for medical sales
reps, shows that while pharma reps and their biotech rep peers are mostly
content with their jobs, they're still hankering for a change.
MedReps surveyed more than 1,400 medical sales reps
about the best places to work in the industry, tallied results for all the
respondents and also broke down the numbers by field. While exactly half of
pharma reps said that they are satisfied or somewhat satisfied in their jobs,
more than three-quarters, or 76%, of reps said that they are somewhat likely or
very likely to leave their jobs in the next year.
Biotech reps had similar qualms. More than half of
reps said that they were satisfied or at least somewhat satisfied with their
jobs. But a little more than three quarters of biotech reps also said that they
would probably leave their job this year. Neither biotech nor pharma reps
spelled out exactly why they wanted to leave their current position, though.
Nor did they say where they would go once they left.