Grifols reviews

- It's the MacDonald's of the pharma industry; high turn over, most line staff are under qualified and reality-detached remote managing on the regional level. - Doesn't pay enough for what you do, as CQM, the plasma industry is heavily regulated and you will be doing everything; - Day to day quality tasks - Inventory receiving - Auditing and hosting audits all year long - Interacting with donors (happy and angry) - Participating in marketing campaigns and grassroots - Cold calling donors - Surveying donors and talking to them about the experience and promotions - Writing investigations/audit reports all year long for different agencies - Weekly observations for staff - Dealing with staff drama - Will have to be a subject matter expert on all areas and most SOPs, all 300 of them. - Prepare documents and assist in weekly shipments. - Complete lack of work life balance. - Traveling (for training and meetings) could be extensive. - Training is insufficient, often times yo will have to travel to be trained (for management level). - Extremely toxic environment and culture that relies on competing and survival. - Mediocre benefits for a pharma Company - Often times understaffed that you wouldn't be able to replace an under-performing employee, as you will do the extra work for a long time. - high turn over and shifting in the regional management level, your future and will rely on the the manager that will replace your current manager. - Even though the plasma industry is still considered "pharmaceutical" but it doesn't help much in the the other mainstream pharma world (companies like Pfizer, J&J, Novartis...etc. Basically, the more you stay in plasma the more you are stuck, and you only have 3 or 4 other companies if considering to work for another company. Only take a job there if you just graduated, living with your parents, have no life and got nothing to lose.

Where do I begin? 1. Management treats their nurses like workhorses, not as people. They give more respect to phlebotomists than the nurses and when we want our breaks they act inconvenienced. They follow SOP based on their perception of what it says, instead of following the clearly written instruction. They’re confrontational instead of professional. Unless you’re in your 20s... keep on looking, because the immaturity of management will break your nerves down quick. 2. Treatment of donors per management designed protocols is terribly disrespectful. You never ever make a donor sit and wait an hour or more just to evaluate if their veins are suitable for donation. Do that right away and stop wasting people’s time. 3. They need to hire enough staff and stop pushing the cross training. Each person has a job, they need to be trained well for it and then the center will run far more smoothly. If a person is with the company more than a year, then they can be offered cross training options. But the nurses shouldn’t be expected to do anything but the job of a nurse, because nobody else can step in and do their job without being a licensed professional nurse or EMT. 4. Unprofessional behavior and work environment. Plasma donation is for making very important medicines. The environment should be clean and relaxing. There shouldn’t be a bunch of ghetto music blaring like everyone just showed up to the nightclub. You want responsible people donating, then make it a place responsible people would “hang out” at... like classical music or spa music. Maybe offer some spa features to the environment like scented oil diffusers. You get what you provide.