Growing Pains; Work Life Balance is a problem for Sales Team - Regional Client Executive Vizient Employee Review

1.0
Jun 30, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits - Good not great Pay - Base pay is high but commission structure needs work Meetings are well done with an annual supplier and member meeting in Vegas yearly in which they spare no expense. Training is encouraged and readily available Impressive breadth of services for a healthcare company with impressive people and culture

Cons

Work Life Balance is horrible expecially for anything client facing. After the merger they cut down the sales team significantly and now everything is overwhelmed with the amount of accounts we have. You travel 3-4 days a week and in between meeting you have a full schedule of conference calls mostly internal. On Fridays when you would like to try and get caught up, we have training calls for about 3 hours. You have no choice but to work late at night just to get through the 100s of emails being sent around during the day. Advancement Opportunities are limited without moving into a totally different department. For instance, once you are in sales there is no step to get to the next level and its very small. There will be a lot of turnover at this organization in the next year because of the chaos with the merger and lack of advancement opportunities compared to other companies. Disorganized Since Merger - The systems are still being integrated so its hard to do anything easily. Sales reports are very difficult to run, support functions are minimal, RFPs take forever to complete and everyone pushes back when asked for something due to being so behind. Focused only on bookings - Company changed from being very focused on keeping the members happy to focused mainly on getting new sales. This has become a high pressure sales organization where as a client advisor you feel like you are always being asked to push new product and services into the hospitals for other groups who have a quota to hit. They need to figure out the right balance between sales and client management. Pay is ok but not for the amount of work and responsibility. Other companies in this consulting world pay much better since they know you are on the road all the time etc. 401 match was decreased recently by 2% which is a big hit

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5.0
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Pros

Company culture. Good PTO. Communication from executives.

Cons

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3.0
Apr 11, 2026
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Pros

Good company culture from c-suite down. Genuine care for employees as people with families. We work hard and the vast majority of coworkers and leaders are fantastic.

Cons

In 2025 Vizient fully restricted virtual employees from being promoted and from making any lateral moves. All impacted employees were hired BEFORE this policy was enacted. I was hired at the beginning of 2021 as a virtual employee with the expectation of occasional travel for on-site team and project/client meetings. Now, with the forcing of all employees back to the office, they’ve also restricted virtual roles. Prior to this policy enactment, we were NEVER told our roles could be restricted one day. Now, if we want to apply for lateral or promotional roles we have to move to a city of Vizient’s requirement (Dallas/Chicago primarily). This is extremely unfair. Families can start and roots put down in 4 years. Now, if I want or am recommended for a promotion I have to unexpectedly and without any prior expectation set, uproot my family and our lives to a congested city so I can commute 2-hours roundtrip to be in the office THREE (3) days a week as required by the in-office requirement and take VIRTUAL CALLS from a cubicle. Nothing about this is fair or makes sense. Even with employees being required to be in-office, they just stay half a day or less. Why do this to everyone? Are you planning to lay off all virtual employees?

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