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Area Business Manager roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a related field. Many employers in pharma, medical devices, and consumer goods sponsor H-1B holders for these roles, which typically carry SOC code 11-2022 for Sales Managers.
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Get Access To All JobsMake a meaningful difference to patients around the world. Driven by a passion to help patients live healthier and more productive lives, our Sales teams embrace Edwards Lifesciences’ values to build trusting, lasting relationships with medical professionals and industry partners. Your insight and dedication will help deepen and broaden clinical knowledge of our company’s innovative technologies, while creating connections between providers and teams across our businesses to ensure patients receive the highest quality of care.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Sales Enablement professional to join a team that is boldly designing transcatheter mitral and tricuspid therapies from the ground up. TMTT is dedicated to solving the complex challenges of mitral and tricuspid disease in order to transform treatment and significantly improve patients’ lives.
As part of the Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies Sales Enablement team, this role supports our growing national field sales team, as well as the broader TMTT organization. Serving as the area operations business manager, you will partner closely with the Area Vice President of Sales to drive commercial success. You will leverage key business metrics, pricing, sales, and market trends (and much more) to partner with our sales organization and cross-functionally in improving patient access to lifesaving technologies. We need your strategic mindset, exceptional talents, and creativity to scale the insights and solutions we deliver to the broader business. You will also strategically analyze operational and market data and provide insights and solutions to senior leadership decision making.
How you will make an impact:
Serve as the operations business manager for the East region
- Partner closely with Area Sales leadership as a trusted liaison, contributing to business reviews, strategic planning, operational efficiency and other key initiatives
- Apply deep expertise in Area business trends, pricing, rebates and contracts to deliver actionable analyses and insights through comprehensive workups and rigorous account due diligence
- Generate strategic insights for management decisions via ad hoc analyses, reporting and scenario modeling
- Consolidate and transform complex data and analyses into compelling presentations that communicate results, recommendations, and insights to management
- Own Sales Enablement platforms, leading systems onboarding, technical troubleshooting and cross-functional partnership to ensure seamless operations
Lead strategic sales enablement initiatives that deliver measurable business outcomes through cross-functional collaboration with key partners such as Marketing, Sales Operations, Sales Training, Physician Training, and IT. Examples include:
- Deploy and optimize customer segmentation models, ensuring alignment of business resources to high-value opportunities
- Drive utilization and effectiveness of cross-functional customer-facing programs by improving visibility, assessing impact and refining strategies in partnership with key stakeholders
- Design, deliver and train on customer-facing and internal sales tools that enhance decision-making and accelerate business growth
What you'll need (required):
- Bachelor's Degree in related field, 10 years experience of previous related experience or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria
- Experience in architecting, developing and deploying business intelligence, analytics and reporting solutions to internal and external stakeholders or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria
What else we look for (preferred):
- Master’s Degree or equivalent with 7+ years of related experience working in Sales, Marketing or Sales Operations in the medical device, healthcare or cardiovascular space
- Experience interfacing and influencing stakeholders in complex organizations with multiple BUs and global cross-functional groups including the ability to gain resolutions and build consensus with key stakeholders in challenging situations
- Experience working within healthcare or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria
- Proven successful project management skills
- Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite, business intelligence and analytics tools (e.g., Tableau, Python) required
- Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
- Recognized as an expert in own area with specialized depth and breadth of expertise within area of work in the organization
- Expert understanding of quantitative methodologies, techniques and tools to develop best in class analytic solutions
- Understanding of industry trends as it relates to sales and marketing optimization and data analytics
- Strict attention to detail
- Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment
- Interacts with team members and peer managers, normally involving matters between cross-functional teams and the company; often leads a cooperative effort among members of a project team
- Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control
Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.
COVID Vaccination Requirement
Edwards is committed to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them. As such, all patient-facing and in-hospital positions require COVID-19 vaccination. If hired into a covered role, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in locations where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination.
Make a meaningful difference to patients around the world. Driven by a passion to help patients live healthier and more productive lives, our Sales teams embrace Edwards Lifesciences’ values to build trusting, lasting relationships with medical professionals and industry partners. Your insight and dedication will help deepen and broaden clinical knowledge of our company’s innovative technologies, while creating connections between providers and teams across our businesses to ensure patients receive the highest quality of care.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Sales Enablement professional to join a team that is boldly designing transcatheter mitral and tricuspid therapies from the ground up. TMTT is dedicated to solving the complex challenges of mitral and tricuspid disease in order to transform treatment and significantly improve patients’ lives.
As part of the Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies Sales Enablement team, this role supports our growing national field sales team, as well as the broader TMTT organization. Serving as the area operations business manager, you will partner closely with the Area Vice President of Sales to drive commercial success. You will leverage key business metrics, pricing, sales, and market trends (and much more) to partner with our sales organization and cross-functionally in improving patient access to lifesaving technologies. We need your strategic mindset, exceptional talents, and creativity to scale the insights and solutions we deliver to the broader business. You will also strategically analyze operational and market data and provide insights and solutions to senior leadership decision making.
How you will make an impact:
Serve as the operations business manager for the East region
- Partner closely with Area Sales leadership as a trusted liaison, contributing to business reviews, strategic planning, operational efficiency and other key initiatives
- Apply deep expertise in Area business trends, pricing, rebates and contracts to deliver actionable analyses and insights through comprehensive workups and rigorous account due diligence
- Generate strategic insights for management decisions via ad hoc analyses, reporting and scenario modeling
- Consolidate and transform complex data and analyses into compelling presentations that communicate results, recommendations, and insights to management
- Own Sales Enablement platforms, leading systems onboarding, technical troubleshooting and cross-functional partnership to ensure seamless operations
Lead strategic sales enablement initiatives that deliver measurable business outcomes through cross-functional collaboration with key partners such as Marketing, Sales Operations, Sales Training, Physician Training, and IT. Examples include:
- Deploy and optimize customer segmentation models, ensuring alignment of business resources to high-value opportunities
- Drive utilization and effectiveness of cross-functional customer-facing programs by improving visibility, assessing impact and refining strategies in partnership with key stakeholders
- Design, deliver and train on customer-facing and internal sales tools that enhance decision-making and accelerate business growth
What you'll need (required):
- Bachelor's Degree in related field, 10 years experience of previous related experience or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria
- Experience in architecting, developing and deploying business intelligence, analytics and reporting solutions to internal and external stakeholders or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria
What else we look for (preferred):
- Master’s Degree or equivalent with 7+ years of related experience working in Sales, Marketing or Sales Operations in the medical device, healthcare or cardiovascular space
- Experience interfacing and influencing stakeholders in complex organizations with multiple BUs and global cross-functional groups including the ability to gain resolutions and build consensus with key stakeholders in challenging situations
- Experience working within healthcare or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria
- Proven successful project management skills
- Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite, business intelligence and analytics tools (e.g., Tableau, Python) required
- Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
- Recognized as an expert in own area with specialized depth and breadth of expertise within area of work in the organization
- Expert understanding of quantitative methodologies, techniques and tools to develop best in class analytic solutions
- Understanding of industry trends as it relates to sales and marketing optimization and data analytics
- Strict attention to detail
- Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment
- Interacts with team members and peer managers, normally involving matters between cross-functional teams and the company; often leads a cooperative effort among members of a project team
- Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control
Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.
COVID Vaccination Requirement
Edwards is committed to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them. As such, all patient-facing and in-hospital positions require COVID-19 vaccination. If hired into a covered role, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in locations where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as an Area Business Manager
Match your degree to the SOC code
Area Business Manager roles are classified under SOC 11-2022. Pull the O*NET profile for this code and confirm your degree field aligns with the listed education requirements before applying. Mismatched credentials are the most common RFE trigger for this title.
Target industries with consistent LCA filings
Pharmaceutical, medical device, and specialty chemical companies file LCAs for Area Business Manager roles far more consistently than retail or hospitality employers. Filter your search by industry on Migrate Mate to surface employers with verified H-1B filing history in your target region.
Verify the prevailing wage before negotiating
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level II or Level III prevailing wage for SOC 11-2022 in your target metro. Your offer must meet or exceed this figure for DOL to certify the LCA, so entering negotiations without this number puts you at a disadvantage.
Clarify territory structure during interviews
If the role covers multiple states, confirm which address the employer will list as the primary worksite on the LCA. A mismatch between your actual territory and the certified LCA worksite location can create compliance issues at the H-1B petition stage.
Ask about premium processing before accepting
Area Business Manager roles often have defined sales cycle start dates. Confirm whether your employer will file with premium processing so USCIS adjudicates within 15 business days. Standard processing can run several months and conflict with your planned start date.
Document field-based work authorization carefully
If your role requires working from a home office or traveling across territories, your employer must file an amended H-1B or include short-term placement provisions in the LCA. Ask HR whether their counsel has handled field-based H-1B structures before signing your offer.
H-1B Visa Area Business Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Area Business Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B?
Yes, if the employer requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field such as business administration, marketing, or life sciences. Generic management roles that accept any degree may not qualify. The job description must demonstrate that the theoretical and practical application of specialized knowledge is a normal requirement for entry into the role, per USCIS specialty occupation standards.
Which industries sponsor H-1B visas for Area Business Manager positions?
Pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and specialty healthcare companies are the most consistent H-1B sponsors for this title because the roles require field-specific scientific or clinical knowledge. Consumer packaged goods and financial services companies also sponsor regularly. You can find employers with verified LCA filing histories for this role on Migrate Mate, filtered by industry and location.
Can I change territory or worksite location while on H-1B as an Area Business Manager?
A worksite change may require an amended H-1B petition if you move to a new metropolitan statistical area not covered by your original LCA. Short-term placements within your existing territory generally don't trigger an amendment, but relocating your primary worksite does. Your employer's immigration counsel should evaluate any territory restructuring against your current LCA certification before the change takes effect.
How does the H-1B prevailing wage apply to commission-based Area Business Manager roles?
Your total guaranteed compensation, excluding variable commission, must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage for SOC 11-2022 in your certified worksite location. Employers cannot rely on expected commissions to satisfy the wage requirement. Use the OFLC Wage Search to verify the applicable wage level for your metro before finalizing your compensation structure with the hiring manager.
What happens to my H-1B status if my employer restructures or eliminates my territory?
If your role changes substantially, your employer may need to file an amended H-1B. If your position is eliminated, you have a 60-day grace period to find a new sponsoring employer and begin a transfer. Starting your job search immediately is critical. Document your last day of employment precisely, since the 60-day clock starts from that date, not from when you receive formal notice.