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Today’s investment, tomorrow’s leaders
Of all the pressures healthcare business leaders in-house and in-agency face today, one of the most common and recurrent is that of talent: attracting it, developing it, retaining it. For myriad reasons, the talent pool in this industry remains a ...

Job satisfaction
Last month, we analysed the data from the first PMLiVE.com salary survey, sponsored by Zenopa of pharma company employees, in what proved to be an interesting take on how macro changes can have reverberating effects. There’s more to this ...

The 24-hour med comms era
The medical writer’s perspective: For many years pharmaceutical companies’ operations have centred around their largest and most profitable Western Hemisphere markets, the US and the EU. This model has also been followed by many global medical ...

What are you worth?
PMLiVE's first Salary Survey, sponsored by Zenopa, comes at an interesting time for the pharmaceutical market in Europe, as companies look to realign their efforts following the worst effects of the patent cliff and a harsh economic climate. ...

Leadership Recruitment
The major challenges facing the pharma industry are driving fundamental changes to business strategies and organisational structures, resulting in a rapid evolution in the leadership competencies and experiences that companies need to take their ...

Exploring experiential learning
“I’ve never flown one of these before,” the pilot confided to me as we walked down the ramp to the aircraft.  “You’re kidding, right?”  “Well, it’s not quite true,” he laughed. “I have 180 hours in the simulator.” Settling into our seats, ...

How to become an interim manager in pharma
Many pharmaceutical companies are facing skills gaps across their organisations. Some do not have the right people in place, which, combined with freezes on permanent recruitment, means that more junior employees have to take on more complex work ...

Bridging pharma’s sales and marketing divide
Among the cultural similarities every pharma company shares is the tribalism of sales and marketing. Their suspicion of each other, their feelings of relative self-importance and their willingness to criticise rather than confer are all familiar to ...