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• I am an experienced B2B sales professional looking to break into pharmaceutical sales. What is the best place to find pharmaceutical sales jobs from top pharmaceutical companies?

• Answer:

  First, you have to have a 4-year degree. This degree can be in anything, mind you. Having the B2B experience is good, as long as you have documented success. Medreps.com is a great place to start. A subscription costs money but it's money well spent. Obviously, larger metroplex areas will reveal a greater number of jobs, both in pharma sales and device sales (devices being hip/knee replacement parts, pacemakers, insulin pumps, etc. -- great money and a different type of sales than pharma sales). Find a pharma recruiter on Yahoo or Google. Have 2-3 working for you all the time. If you're willing to move, tell them. Ensure your resume is professionally updated, preferably by someone who specializes in resumes for pharma companies). It's a great career but I'm not sure it will be that great long-term, especially with the current administration. More and more pharma companies are hiring contract reps to do their work: their salaries are much lower and the pharma companies don't have to pay insurance/benefits. If I were young and could do it over again, I'd get into pharma, produce 2-3 years of stellar sales results, then jump directly into device sales. Best of luck.