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Has anyone here gone from Account to Copy?
Who has the Novartis US Eyecare biz?
I’d consider it an uncommon adverse event.
^ Now I have to report you. #adverseevent. 😂
Same as any agency:
Win new clients or existing clients increase spend - hire.
Lose clients or client budgets - fire.
You’re not officially in advertising unless you’ve been laid off. It’s a rite of passage, in both pharma and general .
Every healthcare agency I have been at has had layoffs at one time or another.
Freelanced at one pharma agency and when they’d lose clients, they’d lay off the entire team who had those lost clients. Agency had four groups, so they lose a 1/4 of their creatives. But then they’d win a client or two and then staff up (with all new people) and get back that lost team. Very weird.
Healthcare agencies are more unpredictable because the client-side has a more severe regulatory landscape than consumer goods. For example, I once had a client that received an overturned verdict on their patent validity and thus suspended their marketing budget overnight. On the other hand, pharma specialists are always in demand because when agencies win pharma business, it’s often easier to hire folks who know the obstacle course than it is to train fledgling account services staff
As common as at any other ad agency. I've been laid off twice in my career which has been entirely in healthcare advertising.
Really depends on where you’re at, but layoffs are pretty uncommon here because the company has to jump through hoops with legal.
Fire your medical copywriters at your own risk. Other roles? Meh.
We have layoffs occasionally, like when a drug didn’t get FDA approval as expected, and they had already staffed up for a launch. Bummer
It depends on the viewpoint of the agency leadership. If you’re pitching all the time, you can’t lay people off when they lose an account. Pharma clients are onto the bait and switch general consumer shops played with pharma, (pitch talent disappears once the account is awarded) so they demand to know who will be the day to day team. That means you need people free to take on the account if you win it. Now if you consistently lose new business pitches, yes there will be layoffs.