The phrase "a high ranking position" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to a job or role that has a high level of authority, or a job or role that is close to the top of an organization in terms of importance. For example: John has been appointed to a high ranking position in the company's accounting department.
A more recent example is the case of Kendall Myers, who after being recruited to work for the Cuban government by an anonymous stranger they met while on holiday in that country, set out to obtain a high ranking position within the State Department specifically to obtain access to US government secrets.
Correlations of age and education with a high ranking position were tested for pre-discussion and post-discussion rankings with the Spearman coefficient.
The title patricius is usually translated as patrician, which ultimately means noble, but in the latter days of the Roman Empire represented a high ranking position, second only to the emperor.
This result confirms that in fallow deer, as in several other ungulates, reaching a high ranking position is important for males to gain matings [53], [54], [55].
He said that the entire story was a "conspiracy by rival judges and provincial elders" to prevent him from getting a higher ranking position.
Lightfoot was associate administrator, the third-highest ranking position at NASA.
Dolezal isn't even the first "white" person to hold a high-ranking position in the NAACP.
What if you previously held a high-ranking position and see a job that you consider "beneath" it?
Justice Jaynee LaVecchia also excused herself because she once held a high-ranking position in the attorney general's office.
Sheila Burke, the top aide to Bob Dole when he was majority leader of the Senate, was named to a high-ranking position at the Smithsonian Institution today.
Coca-Cola named a new director of diversity strategies today, the company's second appointment of a black executive to a high-ranking position in two days.
