Careers
If you're looking for a rewarding career in sales and marketing, the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries offer exciting opportunities. Your USP education will prepare you to work in companies ranging from large, well-established pharmaceutical firms to small, fast-paced equipment manufacturers.
Potential employers include both large and small pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and equipment and service providers. Or you could work within the industry in research, purchasing or human resources with the background you are provided.
As a sales representative you would:
- Develop relationships with customers by studying them and their businesses
- Understand their needs and wants and develop solutions using company resources
- Develop company wide contacts to help you better solve customer problems
- Work both on your own and in teams to provide solutions for your customers business and health needs
A career in marketing would offer you opportunities to:
- Be highly creative in designing advertising and promotional tools
- Analyze customer wants and needs and propose and develop solutions
- Manage the process of bringing a new, multimillion dollar product to the marketplace
- Work with healthcare professionals to design marketing and advertising tools to be used in product promotion.
Your Future in the Pharmaceutical Industry
The pharmaceutical industry is booming. Despite the economic downturn, most pharmaceutical firms continue to grow at a rate faster than the American economy. As these companies continue to produce pharmaceutical products and medical devices, the need increases for savvy marketers and managers with knowledge in the pharmaceutical industry. Job opportunities and advancement are always available.
Sales jobs at the larger pharmaceutical companies start around $50,000 with bonuses and commissions as well as a company car and benefits as add-ons.
Through the Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management program at USP, you will be prepared to:
- Immediately assume an entry-level sales and marketing position in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries
- Fulfill leadership and management responsibilities in a variety of healthcare industry settings through the curriculum's emphasis on both knowledge and practical experience
- Understand the basic scientific, professional, economic and practice-related factors that influence the pharmaceutical market
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