How senior is a divisional VP position in pharma/biotech? I’m thinking about making a lateral move from consulting to a director in pharma that reports to a DVP.

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Usually, in big pharma it could be the highest title or sometimes there can be a senior VP.
With so many pharma layoffs, I am not sure how easy it’s these days to move from consulting to a Director position in pharma.
Last year at my company, all new directors hired were lateral moves from another pharma (referring to the US market).

I have seen a few people at manager level leave consulting straight to director roles in industry over the last few weeks. But it’s definitely slower than it was before

VP is typically the title directly under the CEO (the President). So it’s literally the second highest title possible (besides SVP). Usually it goes AD, Director, Senior Director, and then Executive Director for reference.

At most public companies its CEO ->EVP ->SVP ->VO

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