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Senior Researcher roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations when the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field. Research-intensive employers across biotech, technology, academia, and policy regularly file LCAs and sponsor H-1B petitions for qualified candidates.
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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
Purpose:
The Senior Manager of Marketing Research & Analytics will design, implement, manage, analyze, and effectively communicate marketing research and analytics initiatives across the portfolio. The individual will derive high-impact learnings from qualitative and quantitative primary and secondary research, behavioral analytics, market intelligence, and internal stakeholder initiatives, and partner across verticals as well as with Brand partners and external agencies to inform strategic and tactical decision-making. The ability to influence decisions based upon careful and strategic thinking and understanding of the business is critical to success.
Responsibilities
- Act as intelligence partner across AbbVie's verticals (e.g. Marketing, Patient Services Strategy, etc.) focused on providing strategic insights, forming a trusted relationship, and staying abreast of commercial issues and burgeoning trends within the patient support space.
- Be conversant with custom research methods, adept at supplier and stakeholder management, and able to independently lead custom research projects that deliver compelling and actionable learnings.
- Perform thought-provoking and sophisticated syntheses of learning across research, analytics, and market intelligence sources to develop actionable insights and recommendations that shape strategies and tactics.
- Maintain organizational knowledge of the market, competitive trends, and industry developments and effectively communicate this knowledge to internal stakeholders.
- Design and execute against measurement plans, inclusive of selected operational and performance indicators, to ensure the organization’s understanding of execution of, engagement with, and impact of patient support programs and tactics.
- Coordinate and manage quarterly program performance assessments (i.e. quarterly business reviews) on selected patient support programs.
- Help manage data strategy efforts to ensure accurate and reliable data assets are incorporated within agile analytics capability to enable seamless, codeless, visualization-enabled analytics.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure Brand and Market Access intelligence is leveraged appropriately to inform development of AbbVie care models.
- Build solid relationships as a team player, while maintaining objectivity and lack of bias to represent the voice of the customer.
- Demonstrate thoughtful confidence in presentation of learnings across all levels of the organization.
- Appropriately manage and collaborate with both onshore and offshore research and analytics suppliers.
- Monitor and manage research and analytics programs within budget and identify opportunities for cost savings where appropriate.
- Ensure all research and analytics activities are conducted in accordance with financial and ethical compliance guidelines.
Qualifications
- BA or BS degree required. Advanced degree (MA, MS, MBA, PhD) preferred.
- 7+ years relevant marketing research and/or analytics experience required.
- Experience in pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceutical data (physician-level prescribing, institutional sales data, payer-prescriber-level data, formulary data, patient-level data, etc.) preferred.
- Analytical reasoning abilities, intellectual curiosity, strong business acumen, superior organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail, and creativity in problem-solving.
- Ability to interact effectively with/present to (verbally and in writing) all levels of the organization.
- Proven experience as an integral member of a high-performing work team.
- Experience with and strong aptitude navigating a heavily matrixed and fast-paced environment.
- Strong leadership skills and the ability to collaborate effectively cross-functionally within the organization and with external agencies.
- Demonstrated project management skills.
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
Purpose:
The Senior Manager of Marketing Research & Analytics will design, implement, manage, analyze, and effectively communicate marketing research and analytics initiatives across the portfolio. The individual will derive high-impact learnings from qualitative and quantitative primary and secondary research, behavioral analytics, market intelligence, and internal stakeholder initiatives, and partner across verticals as well as with Brand partners and external agencies to inform strategic and tactical decision-making. The ability to influence decisions based upon careful and strategic thinking and understanding of the business is critical to success.
Responsibilities
- Act as intelligence partner across AbbVie's verticals (e.g. Marketing, Patient Services Strategy, etc.) focused on providing strategic insights, forming a trusted relationship, and staying abreast of commercial issues and burgeoning trends within the patient support space.
- Be conversant with custom research methods, adept at supplier and stakeholder management, and able to independently lead custom research projects that deliver compelling and actionable learnings.
- Perform thought-provoking and sophisticated syntheses of learning across research, analytics, and market intelligence sources to develop actionable insights and recommendations that shape strategies and tactics.
- Maintain organizational knowledge of the market, competitive trends, and industry developments and effectively communicate this knowledge to internal stakeholders.
- Design and execute against measurement plans, inclusive of selected operational and performance indicators, to ensure the organization’s understanding of execution of, engagement with, and impact of patient support programs and tactics.
- Coordinate and manage quarterly program performance assessments (i.e. quarterly business reviews) on selected patient support programs.
- Help manage data strategy efforts to ensure accurate and reliable data assets are incorporated within agile analytics capability to enable seamless, codeless, visualization-enabled analytics.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure Brand and Market Access intelligence is leveraged appropriately to inform development of AbbVie care models.
- Build solid relationships as a team player, while maintaining objectivity and lack of bias to represent the voice of the customer.
- Demonstrate thoughtful confidence in presentation of learnings across all levels of the organization.
- Appropriately manage and collaborate with both onshore and offshore research and analytics suppliers.
- Monitor and manage research and analytics programs within budget and identify opportunities for cost savings where appropriate.
- Ensure all research and analytics activities are conducted in accordance with financial and ethical compliance guidelines.
Qualifications
- BA or BS degree required. Advanced degree (MA, MS, MBA, PhD) preferred.
- 7+ years relevant marketing research and/or analytics experience required.
- Experience in pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceutical data (physician-level prescribing, institutional sales data, payer-prescriber-level data, formulary data, patient-level data, etc.) preferred.
- Analytical reasoning abilities, intellectual curiosity, strong business acumen, superior organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail, and creativity in problem-solving.
- Ability to interact effectively with/present to (verbally and in writing) all levels of the organization.
- Proven experience as an integral member of a high-performing work team.
- Experience with and strong aptitude navigating a heavily matrixed and fast-paced environment.
- Strong leadership skills and the ability to collaborate effectively cross-functionally within the organization and with external agencies.
- Demonstrated project management skills.
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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Senior Researcher
Align your degree to the role
USCIS scrutinizes whether your academic background directly matches the research specialization. A degree in a tangentially related field can trigger an RFE, so document the connection explicitly in your CV and any supporting materials before applications go out.
Search LCA filings by research occupation code
Use the OFLC Wage Search to filter LCA filings under SOC code 19-1099 or 19-4099, which capture most Senior Researcher titles. This shows which employers have filed recently and what wage levels they certified, before you spend time applying.
Target cap-exempt institutions strategically
Universities, nonprofit research organizations affiliated with universities, and government research entities are cap-exempt H-1B employers. They can file year-round without lottery risk, making them strong targets if you're between status or facing cap-subject delays.
Confirm the prevailing wage level before negotiating
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for your SOC code and work location. Pull the current figure from the OFLC Wage Search so you know the floor going into salary discussions and can flag any shortfall early.
Filter for verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Run your Senior Researcher job search on Migrate Mate, which surfaces employers with confirmed H-1B LCA filing history by occupation code. This cuts out roles where sponsorship is implied but never filed.
Understand the 60-day grace period before your start date
If you're changing employers, USCIS allows a 60-day grace period after your prior role ends. Your new employer must file the H-1B transfer petition within that window. Confirm your new employer's filing timeline before you give notice.
H-1B Visa Senior Researcher: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior Researcher role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, if the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific research discipline. USCIS evaluates the job duties and the employer's own hiring requirements, not just the job title. Research roles at biotech firms, think tanks, and universities typically qualify, but a posting that accepts any science degree or equivalent experience can complicate the petition.
Which types of employers most commonly sponsor H-1B visas for Senior Researcher positions?
Pharmaceutical and biotech companies, federal contractors, university research centers, and technology R&D divisions are the most active H-1B sponsors for senior research roles. Cap-exempt institutions like universities and affiliated nonprofits file outside the lottery, which is a meaningful advantage. You can identify employers with active LCA filing history for research SOC codes on Migrate Mate.
What happens to my H-1B status if my research project ends before my petition expires?
Your H-1B status is tied to your employer and the approved petition, not to a specific project. If your role continues under the same employer, status is unaffected. If the position is eliminated, you have a 60-day grace period under USCIS rules to find a new sponsor or change status before you're considered out of status.
Can an employer sponsor me for an H-1B Senior Researcher role if I hold a three-year bachelor's degree?
USCIS evaluates whether the degree is equivalent to a U.S. bachelor's degree. A three-year degree combined with relevant postgraduate credentials or substantial research experience may satisfy the requirement through a credential evaluation. Your employer should obtain a foreign credential evaluation from an accredited evaluator and include it with the I-129 petition to avoid an RFE.
How does the DOL prevailing wage requirement affect H-1B sponsorship for Senior Researcher roles?
Before filing the I-129, your employer must certify through an LCA that your offered salary meets or exceeds the DOL prevailing wage for your specific SOC code and work location. Prevailing wages for senior research roles vary significantly by geography and specialization. You can look up current wage levels for your position using the OFLC Wage Search before negotiations begin.