Been unemployed since December, freelancing here or there and finally landed an offer from a pharma agency (I’ve never worked in pharma before). Outside pharma I’m at ACD level, and the agency that made an offer offered me a copy supervisor position which I’ve been led to believe is a couple of rungs below ACD. How do I renegotiate the title?

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I would take the position. Forget about titles. You’ve got no pharma experience, yet got an offer from a pharma agency. TAKE IT. Pharma is different from “regular” advertising. Knowing how to do pharma can extend your career by decades. Take the job. Even if you just stay a year, you’ll be extending your career. I’m in my 60s and turning work away.

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The rate was appalling—$35/hour.

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Also! Right now, with zero pharma experience, you’re not qualified to be a pharma ACD. Do you know how to reference and annotate? What PDUFA is? How about what MLR/PRC are? The wonderful world of Veeva? There’ll be a bit of a learning curve (but let’s face it—it’s NOT rocket science. However, it’ll take you a while to get the hang of it.) Take the gig. Expand your skill set.

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A bit more context: there is absolute transparency regarding the fact that there’s going to be a learning curve. They know that, I know that. The ECD in the interview asked me to ask for the title if I wanted it for optics.

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Wow! That’s great. You’re in a really good spot here, frankly! Good luck!

Coming in at Copy Sup level is definitely appropriate given the lack of pharma experience. By all means, ask for the ACD title, but if you’re leading a team and have no clue what the rules are for the day-to-day work, the people under you won’t trust you and will probably resent you.

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I always thought copy supervisor was ACD level in pharma

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Apparently not? There’s copy supervisor, senior copy supervisor and then ACD

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