Senior Specialists & Managers · 6 months · Pharma Career Coaching
ACCELERATOR
Lateral moves, promotions and complete changes of direction.
ACCELERATOR is the MoreThanCareer.de mid-career pharma coaching programme for senior specialists and managers with two or more years of pharma experience who are pursuing a lateral move, a promotion, or a deliberate career pivot.
Search for help with a job application and the first results are companies that write documents. That is a different service with a different price logic. You buy a document, once, with no market knowledge behind it. Here you buy consultancy time across several weeks, the repositioning of your profile, and the read of someone who spent 17 years on the hiring side of the pharmaceutical industry. Comparing the two numbers is misleading, because the two offers solve different problems.
What's included
- 5 × 45-minute consultancy sessions: strategy, personal branding, salary negotiation, interview mastery, and integration planning
- Premium CV with achievement quantification. German Lebenslauf option included
- Complete LinkedIn overhaul, headline, banner, summary, and experience sections
- 8 weeks' messaging support
- 1 × 30-minute mock interview with structured feedback
What clients use it for
- Convert lateral moves into upgrades, not sideways shifts
- Position for promotion with quantified evidence rather than tenure arguments
- Re-enter the senior-specialist market after a maternity, sabbatical, or international assignment break
- Pivot between pharma functions (PV → Regulatory, Clinical Ops → Medical Affairs, etc.) credibly
Frequently asked questions
Who is ACCELERATOR for?
Senior specialists, project managers, and managers in pharma functions (Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, Quality Assurance, Market Access, R&D, Data Science, Commercial) with 2 to 10 years of experience.
What's the difference between ACCELERATOR and one-off coaching sessions?
Individual sessions are a tool. ACCELERATOR is a programme, strategy, document transformation, mock interview, and eight weeks of messaging support, with the five sessions scheduled freely within six months of the first one. Most clients see compounding benefit by week three.
Does ACCELERATOR include interview preparation?
Yes. One 30-minute mock interview is included, with structured feedback covering both behavioural and competency-based questions used by Top 10 pharma and Global Top 3 CROs.
Can I add salary-negotiation coaching?
Salary negotiation is one of the five included consultancy sessions. The session covers benchmarking, counter-offer construction, and the total compensation calculation that DACH pharma employers actually use.
Why am I rejected when I am technically a good fit?
Because being a good fit and being read as a good fit are two different things. A rejection rarely means someone examined your qualifications and decided against them. It usually means your profile was not recognisable as a match in the first few seconds. The order of your roles, what you call the function, whether a line states a result or describes a task: that is what decides whether anyone reads on.
What happens to my application after I send it?
It goes through an applicant tracking system, usually Workday or Eightfold, which compares your profile against the requirements in the posting. A recruiter then sees a filtered list. The first look at a profile takes seconds rather than minutes. Knowing that sequence changes how the documents are written.
How does a shortlist actually get made?
Rarely by comparing every application. More often a handful of profiles are marked as promising early and everything else is measured against that set. Arriving late, or convincing only on second reading, means competing against a standard that is already fixed. That is not a complaint about recruiters. It is what time pressure and case volume produce.
The first step is a free 20-minute getting-to-know call. No obligation, no sales pitch, just an honest assessment of whether ACCELERATOR fits your situation.
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