Employee training

Daiichi Sankyo provides a broad range of training opportunities for its employees, both office-based staff and field sales employees. We recognize that our competitive advantage is the talent and diversity of our employees, and we know that investing in our employees through targeted training is a sound investment in the future success of our company.

Training for office-based employees

• New-Hire Orientation provides an immediate overview of Daiichi Sankyo's products and our robust product pipeline, our history, and our culture and work processes. Sessions are conducted by department heads and senior executives, giving new hires an immediate connection to Daiichi Sankyo's leadership. Presenters describe how their functions connect with other departments to contribute to the overall goals and objectives of Daiichi Sankyo.
  
  
• Management Training offers Daiichi Sankyo's Managers and Directors a series of developmental training sessions aimed at strengthening their current management skills and knowledge. The purpose of this program is to make these managers more effective in their current roles, and to provide a strong foundation for future career opportunities.
  
  
• Japanese Culture and Language Training provides the opportunity to strengthen employees' knowledge of Daiichi Sankyo's Japanese heritage and to foster strong working relationships between our Japanese and American colleagues.
  
  
• Business Education and Skills Training (BEST) offers informal sessions on a quarterly basis for headquarters employees. A variety of topics are presented to provide additional knowledge of company processes, more in-depth information on department functions, or reinforce specific business skills. These informal training sessions are hosted by members of management.
  
  
• Daiichi Sankyo Information Sessions, hosted by the President, are quarterly all-hands meetings that provide business updates and educate employees about industry trends and topics that affect the pharmaceutical industry.

Daiichi Sankyo has a proud history of promotion from within the company and managers work with their employees to identify career paths. Employees are encouraged to work with their managers to identify professional development opportunities that are most relevant to their career aspirations and to create a suitable development plan to help them reach their goals.

Training for our sales force

Daiichi Sankyo offers its sales force the most dynamic, interactive, results-oriented training curriculum in the industry. Daiichi Sankyo's training professionals are committed to developing and enhancing core industry competencies through an innovative learning environment. The company provides a solid foundation for success while incorporating vital aspects of the corporate culture. Training programs have a real-world focus and are designed to meet the needs of all pharmaceutical representatives, from the novice to the seasoned professional.

Daiichi Sankyo offers a multi-phased sales training program:

• New Hire Training begins the day a representative joins Daiichi Sankyo. This phase is characterized by extensive self-paced learning that includes individual study coupled with significant Field Manager interaction. This initial training will help to prepare a new representative to compete in the pharmaceutical industry through various industry acclimation tools such as medical pronunciation tapes, basic science primers, and more specialized product-learning systems.
  
  
• Primary Training is the next phase of training a representative receives as part of the initial sales training. This three-week training class utilizes a highly interactive format by providing extensive product knowledge and real-world role-play sessions, often with the participation of Daiichi Sankyo's executive management.
  
  
• Advanced Training is offered to representatives with more than one year of experience at Daiichi Sankyo. During Advanced Training, representatives share their successes and best practices, while significantly expanding their product and disease-state knowledge and approaches to pharmaceutical selling.
  
  
• Specialty Training at Daiichi Sankyo provides comprehensive Hospital and Oncology sales force specific training. Since these representatives are often industry veterans concentrating on a specialized area, disease state, or institutional selling, they receive individualized training focused on their area of expertise.

Daiichi Sankyo representatives are trained by energetic and knowledgeable instructors whose industry experience provides a valuable learning environment. Daiichi Sankyo's belief in inclusion and respect for the contributions of all employees frames its corporate culture, and this culture is evident from the first day of the training experience.

In addition to one-on-one and classroom instructional training, Daiichi Sankyo has implemented web-based and distance learning programs. This training effectively prepares representatives in the areas of anatomy, physiology, disease state and pharmaceutical selling.

Daiichi Sankyo's training process is designed to provide employees with the tools, knowledge, and skills they need to be successful in the workplace. Since employees' personal growth and development leads to Daiichi Sankyo's growth as well, Daiichi Sankyo is fully committed to training programs that exceed the industry standard.