Cardinal Health reviews

success is based on the GPO contracts either won or lost by the company. If Cardinal does not have the contract sales are difficult and yet you are still expected to meet your quotas, Territories can be quite large and overnight travel not highly accepted. Therefore, after 6+ hours of driving, 2-3 hours of meetings with customers, still must find daily time to so office work including training modules, answer emails. Dealing with the contracts department loading accurate pricing is a challenge and can hurt your business if not down promptly, which creates more credit/rebill work for you to submit. Although, not stated in your sales position they will put you in the position of bill collector, which also effects your rep with customers. As a result there is very little life and work balance, Management expects work to be priority number one even if it means emailing past midnight. Best job for a single person who lives for their work and work only.

The major downside is being worthy of promotion but getting passed up time and time again because of politics or not being in the "in" crowd. You can do everything right and be in the right place at the right time and have someone from a different area of the company steal a promotion because it is about who you know and patting each other on the back. Other downside is the job got to be too routine at times and became boring. Some managers micromanaged to the bitter end and that made it difficult to own anything. Another downside is the program for kids fresh out of college. If you participate in this program and complete it, then you can get just about anything you want--including promotions before other non program talent, even if that talent (myself) had many years of total experience.