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Corporate Development Manager roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree or higher in finance, business, or a related field. Employers in investment banking, private equity, and large corporations regularly file H-1B petitions for this role. The annual cap applies, so timing your job search around the October 1 fiscal year start matters.
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We are the people who give possibilities purpose. BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic, scientific, operational, and organizational leadership for CPDT, aligning capabilities, priorities, investments, and service delivery with BD strategy and portfolio needs.
- Oversee internal and external programs addressing toxicology, biocompatibility, chemical characterization, and preclinical safety for medical devices and combination products.
- Serve as Testing Facility Management for applicable Good Laboratory Practice studies and ensure appropriate personnel, facilities, equipment, methods, quality oversight, and corrective actions are in place.
- Provide executive leadership for the CPDT Quality Management System and maintain compliance with applicable GLP requirements, ISO/IEC 17025, data integrity expectations, and internal quality requirements.
- Provide clear scientific and operational direction while balancing patient and user safety, regulatory expectations, quality, cost, schedule, and portfolio priorities.
- Partner with R&D, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Medical Affairs, business units, and other stakeholders on innovation, product development, regulatory submissions, sustaining engineering, investigations, and post-market needs.
- Translate complex scientific and regulatory matters into clear options and recommendations for executives and cross-functional teams.
- Represent BD with regulatory authorities, customers, auditors, industry organizations, standards committees, and external scientific partners.
- Lead, develop, and retain a diverse organization of scientific, technical, quality, project management, informatics, and business professionals, with a strong focus on succession, capability, engagement, and accountability.
- Own financial and resource stewardship, including operating and capital budgets, forecasts, capacity planning, external spending, vendor strategy, cost models, and investment trade-offs.
- Establish portfolio priorities and allocate resources across competing needs using transparent criteria, effective governance, meaningful metrics, and timely escalation.
- Drive continuous improvement in operating models, workflows, digital systems, data governance, service delivery, productivity, and customer experience.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Education: Ph.D. in toxicology, biology, chemistry, biomedical engineering, or another related discipline. Other degrees and relevant experience will be considered.
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in preclinical safety, toxicology, biocompatibility, regulated laboratory services, medical devices, or a closely related technical field.
- Leadership experience: Demonstrated success leading managers and multidisciplinary scientific or technical teams within complex, highly regulated organizations.
- Scientific breadth: Broad scientific expertise in toxicology, biocompatibility, biological evaluation, chemical characterization, and preclinical safety. The role requires broad scientific credibility.
- Regulatory and quality knowledge: Demonstrated understanding of regulated product development and laboratory operations, including applicable GLP requirements and ISO/IEC 17025. Familiarity with ISO 10993 and global expectations for biological safety is strongly preferred.
- Business leadership: Proven business leadership capabilities, including strategic planning, portfolio management, resource and capacity planning, budgeting and investment decision making (informed trade-off decisions).
- Communication and influence: Excellent executive-level communication, presentation, and scientific writing skills, with the ability to effectively influence senior leaders, business partners, customers, regulators, auditors, and external stakeholders.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:
- Board certification or relevant professional credential, such as Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology (DABT) or Regulatory Affairs Certification (RAC).
- Experience supporting medical devices and combination products across innovation, development, regulatory submission, sustaining engineering, and post-market activities.
- Experience leading enterprise laboratory networks, digital laboratory systems, data integrity, continuous improvement, and insourcing or outsourcing strategy.
- Experience serving as GLP Testing Facility Manager, laboratory director, or equivalent executive quality-system accountability/leadership role.
- Experience interacting directly with global regulatory authorities and representing an organization in standards committees, industry associates, or scientific forums.
WHY JOIN US?
To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.
We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.
PRIMARY WORK LOCATION
USA NC - Durham - Davis Drive
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS
WORK SHIFT
INTRODUCTION
We are the people who give possibilities purpose. BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic, scientific, operational, and organizational leadership for CPDT, aligning capabilities, priorities, investments, and service delivery with BD strategy and portfolio needs.
- Oversee internal and external programs addressing toxicology, biocompatibility, chemical characterization, and preclinical safety for medical devices and combination products.
- Serve as Testing Facility Management for applicable Good Laboratory Practice studies and ensure appropriate personnel, facilities, equipment, methods, quality oversight, and corrective actions are in place.
- Provide executive leadership for the CPDT Quality Management System and maintain compliance with applicable GLP requirements, ISO/IEC 17025, data integrity expectations, and internal quality requirements.
- Provide clear scientific and operational direction while balancing patient and user safety, regulatory expectations, quality, cost, schedule, and portfolio priorities.
- Partner with R&D, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Medical Affairs, business units, and other stakeholders on innovation, product development, regulatory submissions, sustaining engineering, investigations, and post-market needs.
- Translate complex scientific and regulatory matters into clear options and recommendations for executives and cross-functional teams.
- Represent BD with regulatory authorities, customers, auditors, industry organizations, standards committees, and external scientific partners.
- Lead, develop, and retain a diverse organization of scientific, technical, quality, project management, informatics, and business professionals, with a strong focus on succession, capability, engagement, and accountability.
- Own financial and resource stewardship, including operating and capital budgets, forecasts, capacity planning, external spending, vendor strategy, cost models, and investment trade-offs.
- Establish portfolio priorities and allocate resources across competing needs using transparent criteria, effective governance, meaningful metrics, and timely escalation.
- Drive continuous improvement in operating models, workflows, digital systems, data governance, service delivery, productivity, and customer experience.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Education: Ph.D. in toxicology, biology, chemistry, biomedical engineering, or another related discipline. Other degrees and relevant experience will be considered.
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in preclinical safety, toxicology, biocompatibility, regulated laboratory services, medical devices, or a closely related technical field.
- Leadership experience: Demonstrated success leading managers and multidisciplinary scientific or technical teams within complex, highly regulated organizations.
- Scientific breadth: Broad scientific expertise in toxicology, biocompatibility, biological evaluation, chemical characterization, and preclinical safety. The role requires broad scientific credibility.
- Regulatory and quality knowledge: Demonstrated understanding of regulated product development and laboratory operations, including applicable GLP requirements and ISO/IEC 17025. Familiarity with ISO 10993 and global expectations for biological safety is strongly preferred.
- Business leadership: Proven business leadership capabilities, including strategic planning, portfolio management, resource and capacity planning, budgeting and investment decision making (informed trade-off decisions).
- Communication and influence: Excellent executive-level communication, presentation, and scientific writing skills, with the ability to effectively influence senior leaders, business partners, customers, regulators, auditors, and external stakeholders.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:
- Board certification or relevant professional credential, such as Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology (DABT) or Regulatory Affairs Certification (RAC).
- Experience supporting medical devices and combination products across innovation, development, regulatory submission, sustaining engineering, and post-market activities.
- Experience leading enterprise laboratory networks, digital laboratory systems, data integrity, continuous improvement, and insourcing or outsourcing strategy.
- Experience serving as GLP Testing Facility Manager, laboratory director, or equivalent executive quality-system accountability/leadership role.
- Experience interacting directly with global regulatory authorities and representing an organization in standards committees, industry associates, or scientific forums.
WHY JOIN US?
To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.
We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.
PRIMARY WORK LOCATION
USA NC - Durham - Davis Drive
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS
WORK SHIFT
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Corporate Development Manager
Frame your credentials around specialty occupation
USCIS requires your degree to directly relate to the role. A Corporate Development Manager using a finance or strategy degree is a clean fit. An MBA with an unrelated undergraduate major may trigger an RFE, so document how your full educational path supports the position.
Target employers with dedicated M&A pipelines
Companies running ongoing deal flow need Corporate Development Managers year-round, not seasonally. Focus on publicly traded companies, private equity-backed firms, and Fortune 500 corporates, these employers have established immigration counsel and budget for H-1B filing costs.
Search verified H-1B sponsors on Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Corporate Development Manager roles by employers with confirmed H-1B LCA filing history. This cuts out employers who list sponsorship as possible but have never actually filed, saving you weeks of dead-end conversations.
Verify prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for your specific location and job level. Run the OFLC Wage Search using the correct SOC code for Corporate Development Managers before you receive an offer so you can negotiate from an informed baseline.
Clarify who covers filing fees before accepting
USCIS prohibits H-1B workers from paying certain employer filing fees. Confirm in writing that your employer covers the I-129 petition fee and any asylum program fee before signing your offer letter. This avoids compliance issues after the fact.
Use the 60-day grace period strategically
If your current H-1B employment ends before a Corporate Development Manager role starts, USCIS allows a 60-day grace period. File your new employer's H-1B transfer petition before that window closes to maintain continuous authorized status.
H-1B Visa Corporate Development Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Corporate Development Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS evaluates whether the position normally requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field such as finance, accounting, business administration, or economics. Corporate Development Manager roles typically meet this standard because the work involves complex financial modeling, deal structuring, and strategic analysis. If your employer's job description allows a general business degree without specifying a field, that can create an RFE risk, so the job description should be specific about required education.
Which types of employers most commonly sponsor H-1B visas for Corporate Development roles?
Large publicly traded companies, private equity-backed portfolio companies, investment banks, and diversified conglomerates file the most H-1B petitions for Corporate Development Managers. These employers run active M&A pipelines, have dedicated legal teams handling immigration filings, and budget for the associated fees. Smaller companies may be willing but lack the infrastructure, making the process slower and riskier. You can identify employers with verified H-1B filing history for this role using Migrate Mate.
Can my H-1B be transferred if I move from one Corporate Development role to another?
Yes. H-1B portability under AC21 allows you to start working for a new employer once the transfer petition is filed with USCIS, as long as your previous H-1B was approved and you've been in valid H-1B status. For Corporate Development roles, the SOC code on both petitions should align closely to avoid additional scrutiny. Your new employer files a new I-129 petition, and you don't need to leave the country or restart the cap process if you're already in H-1B status.
How does the H-1B cap and lottery affect hiring timelines for Corporate Development Managers?
If you're not currently in H-1B status and your target employer isn't cap-exempt, your petition enters the annual lottery each March for an October 1 start date. This means a job offer signed in January may not result in work authorization until October at the earliest. Some employers bridge this gap using OPT or other status if you're eligible. Planning your job search to align with the registration window reduces the chance of a six-month gap between offer and start.
What should I check on a job posting to assess whether an employer will genuinely sponsor an H-1B?
Look for language that says "will sponsor" rather than "open to sponsoring" or "may consider." Then verify that the employer has a history of filing LCAs for Corporate Development or similar finance roles using DOL public disclosure data. Employers who say they'll sponsor but have no prior filing history often back out when they see the costs or timeline. Filtering by verified sponsorship history on Migrate Mate removes this uncertainty before you invest time in the application process.