Have a senior consultant offer from a Big 4 and a product manager offer from a pharmacy retailer (cvs, walgreens etc), but both are similar roles in digital PM/strategy. Which offer would be best to take to help me eventually exit to the tech industry in a similar role?

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I feel like tech companies will take the PM role at the pharmacy way more seriously than consulting. You are actually working on a product.

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No if the work you're doing is PM. Consulting is very much a mixed bag with little guarantee you'll be doing the work you like or want to do. Tech companies won't like that if they're looking to hire a PM.

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The SC offer seems like more of a BA role whereas the product manager role is more of a true manager role. But Big 4 would allow me to work with multiple products and may be a better “brand name” so i’m conflicted

From the product management standpoint, you'll have more flexibility and industry resources in consulting. If the client/product stinks, you can move. At CVS would likely be harder IMHO

Just because pharmacists handle product doesn’t make them product managers

If you actually have an offer from CVS feel free to message me regarding PM roles.

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