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Account Specialist roles in the U.S. qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree in a relevant field like business, finance, or communications. The E-3 has no lottery and no cap, so Australian professionals can pursue these roles year-round with a willing employer and a certified Labor Condition Application.
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About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Job Description
This role is field-based and candidates should live within a reasonable distance from the primary city. Talent will be hired at a level commensurate with experience.
The Account Specialist is responsible for maximizing opportunities for the product portfolio in single layer geography. This individual will develop and maintain strategic business relationships with a wide spectrum of customers to include Hospitals, IDN’s, Academic Institutions, Outpatient Accounts, Long Term Care Facilities, Government Accounts, and Specialty Private Practice. Business relationships will focus on increasing patient access to portfolio products, consistent with approved labels, developing new business, expanding current business, maximizing resource utilization, and increasing sales to achieve geography sales goals through a solution oriented and collaborative approach. The role will involve networking, client services, and a thorough understanding of institutional and medical practices.
Responsibilities
- Advances hospital and specialty customers along the sales continuum and gains prescriber commitments through effective questioning, active listening, and utilization of approved data and resources. Delivers on-label presentations/sales calls to appropriately highlight the benefits and risks of the product portfolio to create awareness of product solutions and address gaps in therapeutic areas, resulting in sales goal achievement.
- Develops professional relationships and differentiates the Anti-Infective portfolio’s value proposition at all levels (C-Suite, Physicians, Hospital Staff, Support Personnel) within accounts and departments to further the use of the product portfolio.
- Strong understanding and ability to problem solve product and patient flow through Specialty Pharmacy, Specialty Distribution, and Buy and Bill channels. Ability to coordinate and mobilize key stakeholders across multiple departments with competing goals to align individuals on patient focused solutions.
- Uses opportunities to understand and address customer needs. Builds strong relationships that provide market intelligence and support development of compliant and innovative programs and initiatives. Builds and maintains relationships across accounts that result in opportunities to benefit patients, physicians, and other HCPs within the geography.
- Ability to achieve success in a complex, matrixed, account-based selling environment in which the need for collaboration and cross functional discipline is critical. Consistently partners with AbbVie in-field (MSLs, National Director of Accounts and Key Account Directors) to and in-house teams to identify, design, and/or adapt appropriate approaches and tactics.
- Creates, develops, executes, and monitors strategic geography business plans. Determines appropriate department, channel, HCP focus and frequency by account to deliver on sales objectives. Aligns appropriate resources to support tactic execution and adjusts as needed.
- Sources, interprets and utilizes key data by account to develop and maintain working account profiles and relationship maps for all territory accounts to maximize call continuum and communication. Consistently targets key stakeholders and decision makers within each hospital/institution/outpatient setting to expand physician usage and customer base.
- Attend and actively participate in local boards, societies, conventions, and other HCP meetings when appropriate. Represent AbbVie and assigned products at such venues, build/improve new/existing relationships. Channel key information, developments, or findings to internal partners/stakeholders. All communications in these forums are on-label.
- Complete all AbbVie required training and maintain adherence to all company policies and OEC/Legal procedures.
Meet health care industry representative credentialing requirements to gain entry into facilities and organizations that are in assigned territory. These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, and proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases.
- Proactively collaborates across multiple departments within healthcare institutions and across organizations. Seamlessly works with cross-functional partners including National Director of Accounts and Key Account Directors to develop processes within the account base while working with Medical Science Liaisons to develop compliant communication strategies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in health, sciences, pharmacy or business-related field preferred or relevant and equivalent industry experience required. Relevant and equivalent industry experience required in lieu of a bachelor’s degree is at least five (5) years of experience with three (3) or more years of experience within the pharmaceutical/health/science industry preferred and a high school diploma/GED required.
- Account based selling experience (Hospitals, Wound Care Centers, or Infusion Centers) and experience building advocacy in hospitals, with or without a formulary win, for acute products. History of navigating the matrix environment within accounts and complex customers such as IDN’s, Academic Institutions, Hospitals, Outpatient accounts etc.
- Knowledge of formulary approval process and driving formulary approvals. Experience with Buy and Bill and specialty pharmacy products is preferred.
- Documented history of strong sales performance, consistent top performer, in a challenging market space or product portfolio. Proven advanced sales skills, ability to communicate novel or complex products and process while keeping it simple and overcoming customer concerns, advancing the sale and gaining new business. Strong team player mentality and a successful history of working as an individual contributor within a collaborative environment.
- Strong business acumen: individual accountability and ownership of sales geography with the ability to multitask in a productive manner, solving problems and influencing without authority. Strong desire to “explore the unknown” and continuously enhance personal, professional, and account knowledge. Ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple accounts. Business savvy, analytical ability to analyze diverse sets of data using multiple tools and define account/program strategies that drive.
- Strong planning and organization skills. Strong presentation and facilitation skills. Proven ability to learn procedural, technical, and clinical information quickly. Ability to understand, articulate, and routinely present complex scientific information to a variety of audiences. Strong problem resolution skills.
- Influences others and is viewed as a credible and respected role model and resource among peers. Builds collaborative partnerships with colleagues and cross functional team.
- Leads by example; Consistently displays positive behaviors and peer coaching through changing and challenging environments. Ability to fully cover the assigned geography.
- Valid driver’s license: Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test and meet safe driving requirements.
- Ability to travel adequately to cover territory, as well as overnight attendance at scheduled training events and sales meetings.
- Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment.
- An essential requirement of your position is to satisfy all applicable health care industry representative (HCIR) credentialing requirements to gain and maintain entry into facilities and organizations that are in your assigned territory. You must also be in good standing and/or eligible to obtain these credentials.
- These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases, fingerprinting and specific licenses required by individual state or cities. Please remember that you are solely responsible for ensuring that you satisfy all HCIR credentialing requirements and for any associated liability for failing to do so. AbbVie has resources available to you to help answer questions you may have.
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
Company Description
About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Job Description
This role is field-based and candidates should live within a reasonable distance from the primary city. Talent will be hired at a level commensurate with experience.
The Account Specialist is responsible for maximizing opportunities for the product portfolio in single layer geography. This individual will develop and maintain strategic business relationships with a wide spectrum of customers to include Hospitals, IDN’s, Academic Institutions, Outpatient Accounts, Long Term Care Facilities, Government Accounts, and Specialty Private Practice. Business relationships will focus on increasing patient access to portfolio products, consistent with approved labels, developing new business, expanding current business, maximizing resource utilization, and increasing sales to achieve geography sales goals through a solution oriented and collaborative approach. The role will involve networking, client services, and a thorough understanding of institutional and medical practices.
Responsibilities
- Advances hospital and specialty customers along the sales continuum and gains prescriber commitments through effective questioning, active listening, and utilization of approved data and resources. Delivers on-label presentations/sales calls to appropriately highlight the benefits and risks of the product portfolio to create awareness of product solutions and address gaps in therapeutic areas, resulting in sales goal achievement.
- Develops professional relationships and differentiates the Anti-Infective portfolio’s value proposition at all levels (C-Suite, Physicians, Hospital Staff, Support Personnel) within accounts and departments to further the use of the product portfolio.
- Strong understanding and ability to problem solve product and patient flow through Specialty Pharmacy, Specialty Distribution, and Buy and Bill channels. Ability to coordinate and mobilize key stakeholders across multiple departments with competing goals to align individuals on patient focused solutions.
- Uses opportunities to understand and address customer needs. Builds strong relationships that provide market intelligence and support development of compliant and innovative programs and initiatives. Builds and maintains relationships across accounts that result in opportunities to benefit patients, physicians, and other HCPs within the geography.
- Ability to achieve success in a complex, matrixed, account-based selling environment in which the need for collaboration and cross functional discipline is critical. Consistently partners with AbbVie in-field (MSLs, National Director of Accounts and Key Account Directors) to and in-house teams to identify, design, and/or adapt appropriate approaches and tactics.
- Creates, develops, executes, and monitors strategic geography business plans. Determines appropriate department, channel, HCP focus and frequency by account to deliver on sales objectives. Aligns appropriate resources to support tactic execution and adjusts as needed.
- Sources, interprets and utilizes key data by account to develop and maintain working account profiles and relationship maps for all territory accounts to maximize call continuum and communication. Consistently targets key stakeholders and decision makers within each hospital/institution/outpatient setting to expand physician usage and customer base.
- Attend and actively participate in local boards, societies, conventions, and other HCP meetings when appropriate. Represent AbbVie and assigned products at such venues, build/improve new/existing relationships. Channel key information, developments, or findings to internal partners/stakeholders. All communications in these forums are on-label.
- Complete all AbbVie required training and maintain adherence to all company policies and OEC/Legal procedures.
Meet health care industry representative credentialing requirements to gain entry into facilities and organizations that are in assigned territory. These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, and proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases.
- Proactively collaborates across multiple departments within healthcare institutions and across organizations. Seamlessly works with cross-functional partners including National Director of Accounts and Key Account Directors to develop processes within the account base while working with Medical Science Liaisons to develop compliant communication strategies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in health, sciences, pharmacy or business-related field preferred or relevant and equivalent industry experience required. Relevant and equivalent industry experience required in lieu of a bachelor’s degree is at least five (5) years of experience with three (3) or more years of experience within the pharmaceutical/health/science industry preferred and a high school diploma/GED required.
- Account based selling experience (Hospitals, Wound Care Centers, or Infusion Centers) and experience building advocacy in hospitals, with or without a formulary win, for acute products. History of navigating the matrix environment within accounts and complex customers such as IDN’s, Academic Institutions, Hospitals, Outpatient accounts etc.
- Knowledge of formulary approval process and driving formulary approvals. Experience with Buy and Bill and specialty pharmacy products is preferred.
- Documented history of strong sales performance, consistent top performer, in a challenging market space or product portfolio. Proven advanced sales skills, ability to communicate novel or complex products and process while keeping it simple and overcoming customer concerns, advancing the sale and gaining new business. Strong team player mentality and a successful history of working as an individual contributor within a collaborative environment.
- Strong business acumen: individual accountability and ownership of sales geography with the ability to multitask in a productive manner, solving problems and influencing without authority. Strong desire to “explore the unknown” and continuously enhance personal, professional, and account knowledge. Ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple accounts. Business savvy, analytical ability to analyze diverse sets of data using multiple tools and define account/program strategies that drive.
- Strong planning and organization skills. Strong presentation and facilitation skills. Proven ability to learn procedural, technical, and clinical information quickly. Ability to understand, articulate, and routinely present complex scientific information to a variety of audiences. Strong problem resolution skills.
- Influences others and is viewed as a credible and respected role model and resource among peers. Builds collaborative partnerships with colleagues and cross functional team.
- Leads by example; Consistently displays positive behaviors and peer coaching through changing and challenging environments. Ability to fully cover the assigned geography.
- Valid driver’s license: Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test and meet safe driving requirements.
- Ability to travel adequately to cover territory, as well as overnight attendance at scheduled training events and sales meetings.
- Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment.
- An essential requirement of your position is to satisfy all applicable health care industry representative (HCIR) credentialing requirements to gain and maintain entry into facilities and organizations that are in your assigned territory. You must also be in good standing and/or eligible to obtain these credentials.
- These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases, fingerprinting and specific licenses required by individual state or cities. Please remember that you are solely responsible for ensuring that you satisfy all HCIR credentialing requirements and for any associated liability for failing to do so. AbbVie has resources available to you to help answer questions you may have.
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as an Account Specialist
Align your degree to the role
Account Specialist positions must qualify as specialty occupations for E-3 visa purposes. A degree in business administration, marketing, finance, or communications directly supports the application. A degree in an unrelated field requires careful framing in your documentation.
Target employers with LCA filing history
Search DOL's disclosure data for employers who have previously filed Labor Condition Applications for account management or specialist roles. Prior LCA filings signal familiarity with the E-3 process and reduce friction during the offer stage.
Clarify sponsorship early in interviews
Raise the E-3 in your first or second interview, not after an offer. Explain that the employer's cost is minimal and there's no lottery risk. Many hiring managers confuse E-3 with H-1B visa and assume the process is burdensome.
Prepare your credential documentation upfront
Gather your Australian degree certificate, official transcripts, and any professional references before interviews begin. If your degree is a three-year bachelor's, be ready to confirm it meets U.S. equivalency standards, which most consular officers accept without issue.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for the LCA step
The LCA must be DOL-certified before your visa interview can proceed. Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork so the employer doesn't need to manage the filing process independently, which is often the sticking point for first-time sponsors.
Confirm your offer letter meets E-3 requirements
Your employer's offer letter must state your job title, duties, start date, and offered wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for the role and location. Consular officers review this document directly, so request a formal letter before your interview appointment.
E-3 Visa Account Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Account Specialist jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Use Migrate Mate to search for Account Specialist roles where employers are open to E-3 sponsorship. Standard job boards rarely filter by visa type, which means most results include roles where sponsorship isn't available. Migrate Mate surfaces positions specifically suited to Australian professionals on the E-3, saving time on outreach to employers who won't sponsor.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does an Account Specialist role qualify as an E-3 specialty occupation?
It depends on how the role is defined. Account Specialist positions that require a bachelor's degree in business, finance, marketing, or a related field qualify. Roles where any degree field is accepted, or where the position is essentially sales support without a degree requirement, may not meet the specialty occupation standard. The job description and offer letter both matter here.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Account Specialist roles?
The E-3 has no annual lottery and no numerical cap, so you can apply at any time of year rather than competing in a random selection process. H-1B registrations are capped at 85,000 per fiscal year, with selection rates well below 100% in recent years. For Australian professionals, the E-3 is the more direct and predictable path into U.S. account management roles.
What happens if my employer has never sponsored an E-3 visa before?
First-time sponsors can still file successfully. The employer needs to submit a Labor Condition Application through DOL's FLAG system and provide a compliant offer letter. Many Account Specialist employers avoid sponsorship not because they're unwilling, but because they're unfamiliar with the steps. Walking them through the process, or having a filing service handle it, often resolves the hesitation.