Hospital Anti Infectives Marketing Undergrad Review
at Pfizer
Placement (10 Months+)
Pharmaceutical
Surrey
Review Submitted: July 2023
Overall Rating
3.3 /5
The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!
3/5
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Overview of Role
3/5
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Skills Development
4.5/5
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Support and Guidance
3.3/5
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Company Culture
2.5/5
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Overall Experience
4/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- managing brand website, materials, videos: to maintain compliance
- Create new webpages, emails to drive traffic.
- assisting in organising conferences making sure materials are approved in time- attending regular meetings create new materials, being the middle man between agency and approval team
- organise staff events for special events: eg World antimicrobial awareness week educational event, 2-day long summer meeting
- assist other teams with their projects e.g Superbugs join the fight school competition
- financial reporting monthly revenues
- Create new webpages, emails to drive traffic.
- assisting in organising conferences making sure materials are approved in time- attending regular meetings create new materials, being the middle man between agency and approval team
- organise staff events for special events: eg World antimicrobial awareness week educational event, 2-day long summer meeting
- assist other teams with their projects e.g Superbugs join the fight school competition
- financial reporting monthly revenues
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Some but not a lot as I didn't have the power to finally publish my own work. Everything I did was checked by someone else so never 'left to my own devices' but that is the nature of the systems we used and the company is highly highly cautious due to the consequences were we to breach industry compliance.
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
3/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- select and edit appropriate/ relevant content for website or email communications
- auditing current content regularly
- analysing data
- forming strategic campaigns
- communicating with stakeholders on various requirements
- utilising various digital marketing platforms together
- auditing current content regularly
- analysing data
- forming strategic campaigns
- communicating with stakeholders on various requirements
- utilising various digital marketing platforms together
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
4/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
3/5
How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
2/5
Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
3/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
I received a lot of support with 2-3 times a week meetings with my supervisor and once a week with my assigned buddy, then after the initial 3 month induction or this was reduced to once a week with supervisor only.
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
5/5
How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
4/5
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
People were always positive and smiling and the company has very high retention rates with many (>50%) being there for decades and this can make it feel like a members only club, where you as an outsider find it hard to break in. At networking events many 'veterans' congregate in small groups and I found these events made me (shy person) feel very lonely, I could only talk to the other undergrads.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
3/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
3/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
2/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
5/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I did not enjoy it. I wasn't sure of the value I was contributing eg some videos had 0 views over 2 years; my work felt futile. I also felt the degree of strictness and 'compliance' was a waste of my time sometimes (several hours spent working to approve the use of a Pfizer table cloth for promotional meetings with instructions etc). First 3months was confusing, at the end my motivation was very low.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
2/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
3/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at Pfizer
4/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Pfizer to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Pfizer
It depends on who you are. The permanent staff / other interns seemed to genuinely believe in their work. Maybe it's my personal qualities not aligning to this type of work.
I would say they value work to excellent standards but the approval process is extremely tedious and slow, feels like wading through treacle to reach your goals, high sense of frustration in any pharma work. Low sense of value personally in my brand.
I would say they value work to excellent standards but the approval process is extremely tedious and slow, feels like wading through treacle to reach your goals, high sense of frustration in any pharma work. Low sense of value personally in my brand.
