How is, say,
laboratory sales different from medical device sales different from pharmaceutical sales?
Not exact matches
If you've read my blog for very long, you know that I don't think that pharmaceutical
sales requires reps to be all that skilled in
sales: they don't ask for a close, they don't place orders, they have no power over pricing, and they have no power in the relationship... so, when he said that to me, it made me think he hadn't done his research about the
different types of
sales jobs, or really put that much thought into it at all.When I told him that with his background, he should think about
laboratory sales, or field applications, he said to me, «All I want to do is get off the bench.»
In healthcare
sales,
laboratory sales, clinical diagnostics
sales, medical device
sales, biotech
sales, pathology
sales, imaging
sales, or pharmaceutical
sales, customer interaction is key — so how you handle people in a wide variety of situations, under pressure, in
different circumstances, becomes a critical factor to hiring managers.
While I'm at it, I have three posts that explain
different types of medical
sales — Part I, Part II, and Part III, as well as posts on
laboratory sales vs. medical device
sales, and how pharmaceutical
sales compares.
One thing about pharmaceutical
sales: it's very
different from all other areas of medical
sales (
laboratory sales, clinical diagnostics
sales, medical supplies
sales, medical equipment
sales, surgical supplies
sales, imaging
sales, biotechnology
sales, cellular / molecular products
sales, medical device
sales, hospital equipment
sales, imaging
sales, etc.).
There's a big difference in the various areas: medical devices looks a lot
different from pharmaceutical
sales; surgical
sales is
different from
laboratory sales; and imaging
sales is
different from clinical diagnostics.