It depends on your motivation. However, it's better to switch within consulting or transition to a business/strategy role.  
  
 Too much supply of PMs would make the transition unfavorable. You don't have hands-on experience, the only way is if past engagements are relevant to the company's domain.  
 Think if you were the hiring manager, would you want to take a risk with someone inexperienced (in PM) at senior level?

Product Manager

Don’t do it. Consulting is end game for Product Management

Working in EY as a consultant in business consulting. Planning on switching soon  so looking for opportunities.   Is product management worth it?  Tips on switching to PM role?

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Working in EY as a consultant in business consulting.
Planning on switching soon - so looking for opportunities. 

Is product management worth it? 
Tips on switching to PM role?

How to jump from management consulting to product management role? Is it a good idea?

Consultant

How to jump from management consulting to product management role? Is it a good idea?- Grapevine

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Hi folks, hope you all are having a wonderful day!

I'm in a dilemma and need your expertise!

I'm a senior consultant(mix of business analyst and consultant) at a mid size organization with 3 YOE, 16 LPA from tier 1 college. 

From my understanding I'm entering a stage where i can still pivot to product management, as later on it will be pretty hard!

So my question to you all is that is it worth it to change career or should i climb ladder in consultancy.

I don't really have any passion, my main focus points are money and job security. 

What do you think i should do?, what pays more?, which field has more future opportunities?

Please advice.

Ciao

PM Vs Consultant

Senior Consultant

I’m currently a data consultant with 3 YOE, 22 LPA. How can I best make the switch to PM? Would I have to take a cut to get a Product Analyst role and work upwards?

Switching from consulting to PM

Data Consultant

Want to switch my career from enterprise sales, to a product management role, any pointers for the same, will be really helpful. As to ,how to go about it

Sales to Product Management role

Growth Manager

How easy is it to switch from PM to product marketing manager ? I am currently working as PM and was considering a role change, what other roles accept PM ?

Alternate career path for PM

Hi,

8 YOE, Security engineer trying to switch to PM role. Studied everything related to PM. Joined cohort based course who promised interviews but nothing came. Currently writing cold emails.

I am expert at cyber security who can understand code, write scripts, do front end dev, can design

What should I do to land a PM role?

Trying to find PM role for past 6 months without success. What should I do?

Security engineer

I want to learn about product management and switch my career path. Can someone please suggest the some useful and good resources to learn and how is the market for a product manager now?

Switching to Product manager role

Senior Engineer

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I am currently working as a management consultant with a top firm (MBB, Kearney, Strat&, OW equivalent). I'm considering switch to PMM roles. On paper, both PMM and management consulting have some overlap in required skillsets (strong communication, problem solving, stakeholder and project management) but it is still not a popular MBB exit for consultants. Want to understand what's the industry expectation wrt PMM roles and if management consulting experiencd will be valued.

Any further insights from PMM or product/ growth folks will be highly appreciated. TIA.

Switch from consulting to product marketing

Management consulting vs product management

Which is better pay wise ?

Although I am aware that management consulting is little bit hectic and demand long working hours but still which can be good during initial years of career and keeping in mind the long term goals and promising outcomes🤔🤔🤔

Management consulting vs product management

🚀 Seeking advice! 🤔 Wanting to shift gears from software development to product management, but feeling a bit lost. 😕 How do I make this transition smoothly? 🌟 Any tips from those who've successfully navigated this switch? Share your wisdom!

Developer to Product manager

Software Developer

I have close to 4 years of Consulting Experience. Want to break into Product Management. How do I go about it.

Consulting to Product Management

Management Consultant

Hey folks, wanted to understand how to transition to a Product Management role.
Context: No PM background with 2 YOE in DevOps.

How to transition to PM role

Analyst

I am a Software Engineer(3-YOE) and want to transition to Product Management role.

Does the ISB PM certifications help us in any form for that or regular MBA is required to get the role.

Transition to PM role🧐

Software Engineer

I am a Finance guy with around three years of experience but thinking to move to Product roles in fintech or a products that has anything to do with transactions. Where do I start?

Want to switch to Product Management

Director Finance

Hi, I have close to 2 years experience in consulting mostly in implementation and support. 

I am looking forward to making a career in product management and would like to know how can someone with no product experience make this transition and land a job? 

Also what would be the best way to make this transition?

Switch to Product

Biggest query:
Does this career move make sense? Or should the aim be towards a Manager position after spending 6+ years in Product Management?

Switch advice: SPM w/ 6+ YOE --> Management Consultant

Hi, I'm currently working as a Product Analyst at a promising startup, where I've been working on enhancing product delivery processes, keeping a check on deadlines (part of PMO), and driving client adoption for the past 1.5 years. 

Here my primary responsibilities involve conducting data analysis of projects and tickets, identifying trends and patterns, and providing insights to inform product decisions. However, I'm not directly involved in the core decision-making processes that shape product strategy.

This is my first job and I feel there will be nothing specific that I will own in project management and/or process excellence, there is nothing much to grow in this field, and pretty much anybody can replace this task, *please correct me if I'm wrong. 

I'm particularly fascinated by the prospect of building solutions that will directly impact our clients hence the real world, developing innovative product strategies, and bringing impact to the business. 

I have some questions and seeking guidance. Insights, personal experiences, or any guidance will help me a lot. Thanks in advance.

- Should I consider pursuing a product management role?
- Or should I step toward product strategy? 
- If I need to get into product strategy, how can I do that? is an MBA a must for this kind of role?
- Or are there other avenues that might be more suitable for my current skillset and experience?

Looking for answers and guidance on my career.

Product analyst

Hey guys, I’m from a non-tech background working in sales (with MBA) & looking to get into PM role. Can grapevine family help/share some tips as to how can I switch to PM role?

TIA.

Product Mgmt. Role

Account manager

I ak literally unable to decide between product management and management consulting, i am i last year of my college , i want to build a great career ahead.  layoffs and recession is going on, i talked to product managers and they say it's not that much glamourous as folks on LinkedIn present it and even  you are in a startup  , devlopers first build the core then role of PM comes into play . I talked to few management consultants as well they say WLB is not that great but it's okayish most of the times . I am literally confused, i know the grass is always greener on other side but my long terms goals are money and growth in my early to late 20s and upto early 30s  , the priorities might be change after that.

Guys please help me out to choose better as I have still some months left so I can upskill myself accordingly also it would be great if you could present the future scopes ,growth and ROI in both the fields with the boom of AI.
I am open to suggestions :)

Product management vs management consulting

I am an MBA in Marketing and currently working as a Market Researcher. I want to switch to Product Management. 
Suggest a good online course which is not too heavy on my pockets or if I should I consider something else? I’m looking to pivot from MR as the pay I’m getting is peanuts here, extra long working hours without any compensation and too slow of growth, monetarily. Help a brother out. TIA.

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