what is the difference between the job of 1st line and 2nd line manager in pharma industry ?

Answer Posted / p.k. pradhan

The role of first line managers is basically supervisory in nature,they supervise the activities of medical representative and ensure that all the plans of compny are implemented by the grass root workers,that is a m.r.The first line managers are implementors of the company's strategy,their job is see that a m.r implements the compny' strategy in the field. They play low role in planining
the second line managers and above come under senior managers like zsm/sm they play key role in business planning which is suppose to be implemented by first line managers and m r.So the basic difference between first and second or third line jog function is that the first is implementor while the second and third line manger have to do lot in terms of planing,they dont just implement.

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