Lead Executive Sales Representative Perspective - Lead Executive Sales Representative Merck Employee Review

3.0
13 Sept 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Lead Exec Sales Rep Pros: High Profile Position in Sales Organization, Additional Leadership in Region, Responsibiity for high profile account management or peer to peer mentoring. Role is 80% field sales and 20% Leadership Role. Higher bonus potential. Company had a deep and rich pipeline of products for the future.

Cons

Large Company that is ultra conservative and weighed down by compliance policies and top heavy management. The Sales organization is slowed down many times by waiting to see if the legal department is going to approve our "messaging, marketing pieces, etc." This is likely a problem for all sales organizations -- but it is a challenge for sales reps.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
30 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great benefits like medical/dentist/vision, pension, stock option, 401k match. Co workers are excellent, pretty good on site symposiums, lot of diversity clubs/activities. Innovation is extremely welcomed. Diversity in research portfolio. AI/ML is heavily invested to make databases more efficient.

Cons

Micro managing, especially within the biologics department, potentially others. Promotions are limited, and pay bump is poor. Company invests too much in buying companies rather than keeping talent - lay offs let go of great talented people. Merck is afraid of investing into exploratory biology and doesn’t take risk - they even admit they would rather see other companies clinical data or R&D data rather than taking a risk. Although it’s slow going in building new software, current databases are slow and needs much improvement. Extremely poor work/life balance.

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