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Working at Virbac Animal Heath was an extraordinary business experience from a healthcare company perspective.  The Veterinary industry is a profound, complex and often under appreciated profession which I grew to love and respect during my time as a territory sales manager.  To be able to provide medications, over the counter (OTC) products and life saving preventatives for veterinary practitioners and their clients brought great joy to every workday. Anyone who owns a pet, myself included, know how valuable and heartfelt our Veterinarians are to our world of animal health care. What I learned from this invaluable experience was a handful of business opportunities that were either seized or missed due to who was managing at the current time of the opportunity.  Managers are just as important as the territory representative and their devout presence is vital for the success of any territory.  I had the opportunity with working along side exceptional colleagues and mentors in the industry.  There was never a moment where I needed some help and my requests were denied from my co-workers.  What a loving and respectful group of people to have shared a business experience with and for that I am very grateful.  I would have to mention that the toughest challenge in this industry was enduring moments where business shortfalls were out of my control; i.e., product recalls and withdrawals due to lack of active ingredient potency and/or non-compliance with FDA regulatory guidelines at the manufacturer level.  These moments were adaptable and were able to be overcome but nonetheless, discomforting and unpleasant.  However, my overall experience was magnificent and extremely satisfying.  I would work in this industry all over again.

Terrible management and Terrible culture. It's the union vs the company. The supervisors even tell you they don't like the union and if they don't like you, they can easily make your job harder. It's set up for new employees to fail. And you get ZERO sick days. ZERO. They have a point system for missing days or being late. 6 points and you're gone. To get rid of ONE point, you have to work 90 days consecutively. It's 90 days from LAST occurrence. New employees are set up to fail. Newest person gets forced over time and if you miss over time, you get a point. The culture is "if it doesn't benefit me then I don't care". And new employees have a 6 month probation period and they can fire you for anything, Literally. 

Work here if you want ZERO sick days and constantly want to worry about the point system. 

The work isn’t too complicated. The most you’ll do is paperwork, assemble, & disassemble machinery. However, everything goes off of seniority, which is understandable, however management has their favorites & they absolutely show it. HR doesn’t do much but compromise & contaminate the reports & complaints they have with their sloppy investigations. Management also go off of hear say a lot without investigation & will cause you to be written up. Some in management will misplace very important paperwork that belongs to you as well such as doctor’s notes, training paperwork, & other requests so make sure you keep your copies. One of the worst places I’ve worked where people do things on a highly inappropriate level. 

New CEO has brought needed changes to the North American affiliate. Lots of growth, energy, and improvements. It's exciting to see the changes and be a part of a growing and respected team. If you don't like to be challenged, grow outside of your comfort zone, problem solve, and are okay with things staying the same it may not be the place for you.

The hardest part is navigating the processes and owners of processes. Knowing who to contact for set things can be challenging. The tenure of employees are able to help you navigate but can also be a challenge.

Lots of system implementations new operating systems, sales reporting, HR tools, all pushing things to be more current.

Worked here for almost 4 years. First job out of college, so I thought it was great. Over time, I started to feel I had no more room for career building with this company. Also they were under an FDA mandated cease manufacturing because of incompetent management. The final nail in the coffin for me was the level of disrespect from management and human resources. Don't expect to be acknowledged or respected for your level of knowledge, skills, or ability. If you know the right people people, however, three thumbs up to you. You will do just fine.

They play favorites, not allowed to leave small rooms unless to go to the bathroom. Not allowed to drink water unless you can find someone to cover for you and even then youre timed. They definitely do not have an open door policy. Many refuse to train unless they know you or you "fit in". The training was among the worst. Entire building floods, no alarms for tornado or fire. During my orientation there was a tornado warning and no one took cover till nearly 15 min after. Over all very unperfesional. Save yourself the wasted time and look elsewhere. 

Save you time and look else where. Unless you can get hired on as a Director, Manager, or supervisor your not ever going to be treated fairly. Believe me when I say there is plenty of upper management to make sure you never get  fair raises, equivalent benefits. Their human resource department will always rule in favor for the company and act more like bean counters. 

Work is somewhat easy but management makes it harder than it needs to be. You’ll get no assistance on certain duties and they tend to throw extra work on you with no SOP in place. Terrible work environment when it comes to accommodations such as restrooms and break rooms. Infested with nats and spiders etc. and will not take consideration in cleaning it up.  No support from management, and will put off other warehouse and clerical  work on you as well.

Good place to be able to work with multiple instrumentation, but training is mostly inadequate.  Management can be over demanding when scheduling work.  Management doesn't always realize how long it takes to complete a task.  Company as a whole, takes care of it's employees.  The site is transitioning and growing which makes aspects of the job more complicated than what it should be.

I love what I do on the daily! I have an amazing team and so much support from corporate. Everyone works together to make it happen. It’s not a top-down management style, there is freedom in your role. The leadership team will step in and assist with absolutely anything to ensure a great outcome for our employees and clients.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Territory sales 1 salary reported	$132,500 per year
Veterinarian 2 salaries reported	$130,000 per year
Route driver 1 salary reported	$21.00 per hour
Process engineer 1 salary reported	$94,414 per year
Manager 1 salary reported	$100,000 per year

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