Thoughts on switching between healthcare provider consulting and life science/pharma consultant

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Curious also - lots of recruiters reaching out last year but I wasn’t interested then, crickets now

Pharma is transforming. Tons of opportunities for the right people.

Transforming how ? - it’s in the news everyday. Tariffs, tax, generic deflation, specialty boom, gross to net bubble, trump’s blueprint, Amazon, WBAD, 340B and part D and so on. Right background being you either have experience in pharma industry or you are good with pricing/sourcing analytics. HIA PLS has been hiring a lot of people like that.

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