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Sween was the best company I had worked for! 
Sween was the leading innovative  medical manufacturer of wound care products, skin care for incontinence, anti-fungal cream & powder, alpha hydroxyl cream, no rinse bathing, hand washing, ostomy appliances, catheters and urological products for Hospital, Long Term Care and Retail healthcare.  Peri-Wash and Sween Cream were the gold standard! I really enjoyed calling on Hospitals and the Practitioners to get Sween Products on Hospital Formulary!
I enjoyed the challenge to sell an expensive product line against inferior competitive look-a-likes by selling Features and Benefits with  financial comparison.
This was the best Professional Sales Team and Management structure I had worked for and was due to advance into management, until Coloplast purchased Sween Corporation! In 1 1/2 years after the acquisition, Coloplast methodically downsized all of the Sween Sales Force and restructured the compensation and benefits. I was the highest paid Senior Sales Representative and the first they downsized! I was shocked and disappointed! 
I enjoyed the 12 1/2 years and moved on.

My accomplishments were:

•	Awarded “Presidents Inner Circle Award” in 1991, 1992 and    
1993 in recognition of having doubled sales objectives. 
•	Qualified and won the Presidents Honor Council Award - eight consecutive awards for achieving sales revenues in excess of sales objectives. 
•	Honored as the “No. 1 Sales Representative” among 49 peers in 1993.
•	Increased gross revenues from $176M in 1986 to $1.2 MM in 1996.
•	Increased Market Share from 2.5% to 45.7% in 12 years.




Working for Coloplast as a Territory Manager for the Continence Care Division has been extremely rewarding. I had the pleasure of working on a team where, encouragement, positivity, and competitiveness surrounded me throughout my tenure. The upper management staff challenged and pushed us to always give 150% and to not take "NO" for an answer. I learned that clinical selling and challenging my customers goes much further with sales success and developing a trustworthy relationship among my call points and in turn helped me achieve the success I had within my territory. The relationships I have built with my co-workers at Coloplast are some of the most genuine relationships I have had within a company atmosphere and I look up to many of the reps I worked with on the Continence Care team. 
The most challenging part of this role as Territory Manager was attempting to change the behaviors of certain call points we had to call on. I have such a passion in teaching and educating clinicians on ways to improve patient outcomes however, not all of the office staff involved in referring patients for our products had the same passion which resulted in more challenging roadblocks. The most enjoyable part of the job was changing lives!! Experiencing the life improvements that were made when a clinician and their staff decided to start prescribing our products to their patients. Hearing the stories directly from the end users themselves. Hosting lunch and dinner presentations to educate nurses, physicians, therapists, etc... on how my products could impact their patients lives and overall bladder health was one of the most rewarding parts of my role as a TM.

They tout how great their leadership is publicly to themselves and how they strive for it.  If striving for great leadership is measured by firing your executive leaders and replacing them in annual intervals, then according to their constant preaching to us they are great.

Other companies I have worked for define leadership not by the king in charge, but by making quick good decisions, defining company direction, supporting employees, mutual respect, giving praise, motivating the teams and developing managers vs. canning them.

Here's the reality of doing the opposite of what I list and have experienced above; new direction, new quotas, new plans, new compensation, and all from new leaders that arrive annually with little or no experience in the company and the business.

It's an exhausting place to work, a treadmill that no one can stay on, with little quality of life, nor career growth potential.

When I first work here in Marietta 2005 it was a small warehouse job and was very easy to handle shipping. Then they got bigger and took over the entire warehouse with everything and then it became the impossible job to ship ever order everyday. I took receiving position and was happy at this until they started making us do shipping and receiving. This was way to much for anyone to have to work. They also wouldn't give no raises for doing the extra work. This is why I'm not there anymore. I would say this was the hardest warehouse I have ever worked at now. Maybe because this is a European company is why they try to work like this and not the American way?

A typical work day would involve working with external distributors regarding their sales data and rebates requested and also providing scheduled and adhoc reports and data for internal customers.  Coloplast was a team oriented workplace but also allowed for individual work pace.  The hardest part of the job was ensuring that all data was completed prior to month end.  The most enjoyable part of the job was the satisfaction of completing all processes in the required timeframe and also resolving external customer issues.

Management will lie to you and tell you there's advancement, but if you ask tenured coworkers you'll soon realize it's not true. They'll say they're changing, but I worked there for 2 years (and worked with supervisor for advancement opportunities) and was let down when an opportunity arrived. Basically told me they only hire from outside after people get more experience. 

Turnover was over 100% in the two years I was there. It's hard to make lasting friends and connections when people leave shortly after starting.

Countless promises from management about developing employees and promotion from within with no follow-through.

Department drives revenue (more than field sales team), but is not compensated as such. 

Management flies in from Denmark for three years maximum, enjoys America, then flies back home.  No consistent plan from management.  No understanding as to how things really work.  

Co-workers are great - it's amazing people work for this company and management team.  

Cafeteria is nice, staff is very pleasant.  

Facility is gorgeous - a prime location.

Top down leadership from Denmark HQ. The culture has shifted significantly over the last years. There are some wonderful people but others are fostering toxic environment. 

Overall, great products and impact on patients’ lives. Just wish the culture was more diverse and inclusive. More attention needs to be paid to professional development and investment into current employees instead of hiring externally due to staff turnover. 

the beginning of the process was ideal and fun while you learn the products, but quickly turns when you are thrown in. great benefits, subpar pay for all the work that you do on a daily basis. and if you want to move up in the from the current position, it will likely not happen because they will only hire from the outside. the people make the job fun but besides that the direction that is being asked of you is never clear and concise for you to understand. you are on the phones all day and you are terribly micromanaged.

No minorities and they will change your monthly goal without telling you so you won't hit goal or get paid your commissions. Yes, seriously, they do that all the time! If you don't go over your numbers with a fine tooth comb you will be sorry. They will train you on catheters above and beyond. So not necessary. They also like to keeps reps out of the territory as much as possible by requesting numerous reports and meetings all over. Customer service are idiots but the company values them over reps.

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