I was recently offered a job to be an agency relations manager at a pharma company. Anyone who has experiences in this area can offer advice, that’d be wonderful.

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How did you get an offer if you have no experience in this area?

I come from the agency side but was offered a job through my current client who is just a marketer. I was searching trajectory for position like this but found not many are in this field so wanted to ask here!

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