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Clinical Trial Manager roles qualify as E-3 specialty occupations, requiring a bachelor's degree in life sciences, nursing, or a related clinical field. Australian professionals can secure E-3 visa sponsorship without competing in the H-1B lottery, and the visa renews indefinitely as long as your sponsoring employer remains active.
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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
Trial Surveillance & Analytics (TSA) is a newly formed center of excellence in Data & AI Acceleration, part of AbbVie's Data and Statistical Sciences organization. Our mission is to transform how AbbVie conducts ongoing clinical trial surveillance — integrating trial data, analytics and AI so that study teams and patient safety colleagues see emerging safety and efficacy signals early, and can act on them with confidence. This is work upstream, inside ongoing clinical trials, where insight can still change decisions for the study and for patients.
The Senior Manager, Trial Surveillance & Analytics is a hands-on, full-stack data scientist who takes a surveillance question from intake to a working solution. You will work in a small team that owns a capability end to end — from the data, through the analysis, to the tool that study teams use — and you will own your solutions from problem statement to a working product that people use. The team is AI-native from day one: agentic coding and AI agents are part of how we work, with room to experiment and to scale what works. You will combine depth in one area (such as statistical programming and reporting, data integration, data visualization, data science and machine learning, or data and software engineering) with enough breadth across clinical data, analytics and AI to deliver on your own, with the support of the team. As an early member of a new center of excellence, you will help define how it works, the standards it sets and the capabilities it builds, partnering across Global Patient Safety, therapeutic area clinical development teams, Statistics, Statistical Programming and data engineering across the portfolio.
Key Responsibilities:
- Frame surveillance problems with stakeholders before building: understand the decision to be supported, design for adoption, and iterate with users.
- Design and build data pipelines and analysis-ready, integrated data on SDTM, ADaM and integrated databases to support safety and efficacy surveillance.
- Lead blinded, standardized analytics across studies and compounds to detect emerging safety and efficacy signals early.
- Deliver reporting — tables, listings and figures, safety reports and listings — and automate it wherever possible.
- Develop applications, dashboards and self-service tools that study teams and patient safety colleagues use themselves; drive their adoption and measure their use.
- Apply generative and agentic AI across the analysis workflow, build AI agents on the clinical data foundation, and measure the gain in time and quality.
- Integrate clinical trial and real-world data where the science requires it, assessing comparability and data quality first.
- Lead projects and small cross-functional pods; coach and mentor team members. May include indirect supervision of employees and contract staff.
- Represent the team in cross-functional forums and communicate technical concepts and results clearly to non-technical audiences.
- Ensure adherence to applicable regulations, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), ICH guidelines, AbbVie Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and functional quality standards.
Minimum Qualifications:
- MS (with 8+ years of experience) or PhD (with 4+ years of experience) in Statistics, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Machine learning and AI or a highly related field.
- Experience may be in pharmaceutical, biotech, health technology or related industries.
- Strong hands-on programming in R and Python, plus SQL and version control (e.g. Git), with a track record of writing production-quality code for end-to-end analytical pipelines.
- Demonstrated experience applying generative or agentic AI to analytical or programming work, with measurable results.
- Experience working with clinical trial data (e.g. CDISC SDTM/ADaM) and/or real-world data (e.g. EHR, claims, registries).
- A track record of building analytical tools or solutions that were adopted and sustained by their users.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain analytical and technical concepts in plain language and to influence cross-functional partners without direct authority.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience designing and building agentic AI systems (e.g. multi-step agents, tool use, retrieval and evaluation), with a track record of solutions delivered and used in production.
- Experience in clinical development, drug safety, pharmacovigilance, clinical trial monitoring or regulatory evidence generation.
- Knowledge of clinical trial design and of methods for real-world evidence, such as cohort definition, confounding control and external comparators.
- Experience building interactive visualizations and data apps with modern frameworks (e.g. Plotly / Dash, Streamlit, Shiny, React / D3) and deploying on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS).
- Familiarity with SAS.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives; formal business or leadership training is a plus.
- Publications, presentations or community leadership in data science, statistics or AI.
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 long-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
Trial Surveillance & Analytics (TSA) is a newly formed center of excellence in Data & AI Acceleration, part of AbbVie's Data and Statistical Sciences organization. Our mission is to transform how AbbVie conducts ongoing clinical trial surveillance — integrating trial data, analytics and AI so that study teams and patient safety colleagues see emerging safety and efficacy signals early, and can act on them with confidence. This is work upstream, inside ongoing clinical trials, where insight can still change decisions for the study and for patients.
The Senior Manager, Trial Surveillance & Analytics is a hands-on, full-stack data scientist who takes a surveillance question from intake to a working solution. You will work in a small team that owns a capability end to end — from the data, through the analysis, to the tool that study teams use — and you will own your solutions from problem statement to a working product that people use. The team is AI-native from day one: agentic coding and AI agents are part of how we work, with room to experiment and to scale what works. You will combine depth in one area (such as statistical programming and reporting, data integration, data visualization, data science and machine learning, or data and software engineering) with enough breadth across clinical data, analytics and AI to deliver on your own, with the support of the team. As an early member of a new center of excellence, you will help define how it works, the standards it sets and the capabilities it builds, partnering across Global Patient Safety, therapeutic area clinical development teams, Statistics, Statistical Programming and data engineering across the portfolio.
Key Responsibilities:
- Frame surveillance problems with stakeholders before building: understand the decision to be supported, design for adoption, and iterate with users.
- Design and build data pipelines and analysis-ready, integrated data on SDTM, ADaM and integrated databases to support safety and efficacy surveillance.
- Lead blinded, standardized analytics across studies and compounds to detect emerging safety and efficacy signals early.
- Deliver reporting — tables, listings and figures, safety reports and listings — and automate it wherever possible.
- Develop applications, dashboards and self-service tools that study teams and patient safety colleagues use themselves; drive their adoption and measure their use.
- Apply generative and agentic AI across the analysis workflow, build AI agents on the clinical data foundation, and measure the gain in time and quality.
- Integrate clinical trial and real-world data where the science requires it, assessing comparability and data quality first.
- Lead projects and small cross-functional pods; coach and mentor team members. May include indirect supervision of employees and contract staff.
- Represent the team in cross-functional forums and communicate technical concepts and results clearly to non-technical audiences.
- Ensure adherence to applicable regulations, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), ICH guidelines, AbbVie Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and functional quality standards.
Minimum Qualifications:
- MS (with 8+ years of experience) or PhD (with 4+ years of experience) in Statistics, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Machine learning and AI or a highly related field.
- Experience may be in pharmaceutical, biotech, health technology or related industries.
- Strong hands-on programming in R and Python, plus SQL and version control (e.g. Git), with a track record of writing production-quality code for end-to-end analytical pipelines.
- Demonstrated experience applying generative or agentic AI to analytical or programming work, with measurable results.
- Experience working with clinical trial data (e.g. CDISC SDTM/ADaM) and/or real-world data (e.g. EHR, claims, registries).
- A track record of building analytical tools or solutions that were adopted and sustained by their users.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain analytical and technical concepts in plain language and to influence cross-functional partners without direct authority.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience designing and building agentic AI systems (e.g. multi-step agents, tool use, retrieval and evaluation), with a track record of solutions delivered and used in production.
- Experience in clinical development, drug safety, pharmacovigilance, clinical trial monitoring or regulatory evidence generation.
- Knowledge of clinical trial design and of methods for real-world evidence, such as cohort definition, confounding control and external comparators.
- Experience building interactive visualizations and data apps with modern frameworks (e.g. Plotly / Dash, Streamlit, Shiny, React / D3) and deploying on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS).
- Familiarity with SAS.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives; formal business or leadership training is a plus.
- Publications, presentations or community leadership in data science, statistics or AI.
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 long-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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Translate your AHPRA credentials for U.S. employers
Australian clinical trial certifications and AHPRA registration don't map directly to U.S. standards. Frame your credentials in terms of ICH-GCP compliance, FDA-regulated trial experience, and any ACRP or SOCRA certifications to signal immediate readiness to U.S. hiring managers.
Target CROs with established Australian hiring pipelines
Contract research organizations like ICON, Labcorp Drug Development, and IQVIA regularly sponsor E-3 visas because they already operate in Australia and understand the visa. Prioritize these employers early, their HR teams won't need educating on the E-3 process.
Search for verified E-3 sponsorship roles on Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Clinical Trial Manager roles by employers with active E-3 and LCA filing history. This cuts out roles where sponsorship is listed as possible but never actioned, saving weeks of back-and-forth with recruiters.
Clarify sponsor eligibility before the offer stage
Some sponsors are biotech startups without an established DOL wage compliance process. Ask early whether the employer has filed an LCA before, if not, confirm they're prepared to engage legal counsel or use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork before you give notice at your current job.
Confirm the role meets DOL specialty occupation standards
A Clinical Trial Manager title doesn't automatically satisfy the E-3 specialty occupation requirement. The job description must specify a degree requirement in a relevant field, not just preferred qualifications, or your LCA and visa application faces rejection at the DOL certification stage.
Request E-3 processing at an Australian consulate, not by mail
Applying for the E-3 visa stamp at a U.S. consulate in Sydney or Melbourne is faster than USCIS change-of-status processing from within the U.S. If you're currently onshore, factor the consulate appointment wait time into your employer's proposed start date.
E-3 Visa Clinical Trial Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Clinical Trial Manager jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to search, it filters Clinical Trial Manager roles by employers with confirmed E-3 and LCA filing history, so you're not applying blindly to positions where sponsorship is listed as possible but rarely actioned. CROs and large pharma employers are the most consistent E-3 sponsors in clinical research.
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 the E-3 visa work better than the H-1B for Clinical Trial Managers?
For Australian nationals, the E-3 is significantly more practical. There's no annual lottery, no cap that fills within days, and no random selection risk. You can apply directly at a U.S. consulate in Australia once you have a certified LCA and job offer, with the visa typically processed within weeks rather than months.
What qualifications does a Clinical Trial Manager need to qualify for an E-3?
You need a bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field, life sciences, nursing, pharmacy, or biomedical science are the most commonly accepted. The job offer itself must also specify a degree requirement, not just a preference. Australian three-year bachelor's degrees are generally accepted as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree for E-3 purposes.
Can a biotech startup sponsor my E-3 visa as a Clinical Trial Manager?
Yes, any U.S. employer can sponsor an E-3, including early-stage biotechs. The requirement is that they file a certified LCA with the DOL before your visa application. Smaller companies without prior sponsorship experience often need support navigating the DOL wage compliance and LCA filing process, so confirm their readiness before accepting an offer.