Pros
- Good start for your carrier. - Good start to learn how people function in a corporate environment. - they pay for travel, car rental and lodging.
Cons
- It's the MacDonald's of the pharma industry; high turn over, most line staff are under qualified and reality-detached remote managing on the regional level. - Doesn't pay enough for what you do, as CQM, the plasma industry is heavily regulated and you will be doing everything; - Day to day quality tasks - Inventory receiving - Auditing and hosting audits all year long - Interacting with donors (happy and angry) - Participating in marketing campaigns and grassroots - Cold calling donors - Surveying donors and talking to them about the experience and promotions - Writing investigations/audit reports all year long for different agencies - Weekly observations for staff - Dealing with staff drama - Will have to be a subject matter expert on all areas and most SOPs, all 300 of them. - Prepare documents and assist in weekly shipments. - Complete lack of work life balance. - Traveling (for training and meetings) could be extensive. - Training is insufficient, often times yo will have to travel to be trained (for management level). - Extremely toxic environment and culture that relies on competing and survival. - Mediocre benefits for a pharma Company - Often times understaffed that you wouldn't be able to replace an under-performing employee, as you will do the extra work for a long time. - high turn over and shifting in the regional management level, your future and will rely on the the manager that will replace your current manager. - Even though the plasma industry is still considered "pharmaceutical" but it doesn't help much in the the other mainstream pharma world (companies like Pfizer, J&J, Novartis...etc. Basically, the more you stay in plasma the more you are stuck, and you only have 3 or 4 other companies if considering to work for another company. Only take a job there if you just graduated, living with your parents, have no life and got nothing to lose.