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Training and Development Specialist roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in instructional design, human resources, or a related field. Large employers in tech, healthcare, and financial services file LCAs regularly for this role and sponsor H-1B transfers year-round, outside the annual lottery.
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Title: Training & Development Senior Manager
Duration: 12-month contract
Location: Remote (U.S. only)
Top 3 skills:
- Presentation skills
- Scientific understanding and communication
- Content creation
The ideal candidate is a scientifically credible learning professional with a strong oncology background who can quickly absorb complex clinical data and translate it into engaging educational content. They should be comfortable leading learning initiatives independently, presenting to scientific audiences, and creating high-quality learning materials in a fast-paced pharmaceutical environment. Candidates should possess excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to make complex scientific information easy to understand and engaging for adult learners. Success in this role comes from combining scientific expertise with instructional design, program leadership, and strong stakeholder communication.
R& D Knowledge and Learning Senior Manager
As a Knowledge and Learning professional, you will play a strategic leadership role in shaping how our Global Medical Affairs teams learn, grow, and deliver on their mission. You will be responsible for proactively planning, implementing, and delivering scientific training globally, focused on advancing knowledge of therapeutic areas, the treatment landscape, and emerging data. This role requires close cross-functional collaboration with Global Medical, Scientific Communications, Clinical Development, and Medical Science Liaisons to ensure training strategies are aligned, integrated, and impactful. By driving a culture of scientific learning and excellence, you will ensure that medical teams are equipped with the scientific expertise needed, empowering them to advance patient care and achieve meaningful impact.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Global Medical Affairs leadership to anticipate learning needs, align scientific training with organizational strategy, and ensure they equip teams with the expertise required to meet their objectives.
- Lead the end-to-end process of proactively planning, implementing, and delivering global scientific trainings aligned with medical and organizational priorities.
- Design and implement global scientific learning strategies that deepen expertise and prepare teams for the evolving therapeutic landscape.
- Partner with subject matter experts to develop high-quality scientific training content and materials internally, ensuring accuracy, relevance, and scientific rigor.
- Lead new hire and new-to-product onboarding, ensuring teams are equipped with a strong foundation in disease state, treatment landscape, data, and strategy to be effective in their roles.
- Serve as a lead in scientific training, helping shape the long-term vision of scientific education and positioning training as a driver of organizational excellence.
- Introduce new approaches, tools, and technologies (e.g., digital platforms, modular learning, peer-to-peer exchange) to create engaging and impactful scientific training.
- Champion a culture of continuous scientific learning within Medical Affairs, fostering collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and scientific leadership development.
- Adapt scientific training to diverse geographies and functions, tailoring approaches to meet the needs of global and regional medical teams.
- Some travel may be required (approximately 20%).
Qualifications
- A professional degree of Pharm.D., or MD/DO or PhD in a relevant medical science field (e.g., biology, chemistry, pharmacology) with 5 or more years of biotech/pharmaceutical and/or clinical experience.
- Understanding of learning methodology and design.
- Excellent technical writing, oral, presentation, and project management skills and the ability to search, critically analyze, and summarize scientific literature.
- Understanding of the pharmaceutical commercialization process and knowledge of the legal and regulatory guidelines affecting promotion of prescription products.
- Ability to interface cross-functionally in a dynamic, matrixed environment.
Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual [salary/hourly rate] for this position is between $90.00 - 95.00 per hour. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits:
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance], [dental insurance], [vision insurance], [401(k) retirement plan], [life insurance], [long-term disability insurance], [short-term disability insurance], [paid parking/public transportation], [Paid time off], [Days/hours of paid sick and safe time], [Days/hours of paid vacation time], [Weeks of paid parental leave], [Paid holidays annually], [any additional benefits applicable].
Description:
Title: Training & Development Senior Manager
Duration: 12-month contract
Location: Remote (U.S. only)
Top 3 skills:
- Presentation skills
- Scientific understanding and communication
- Content creation
The ideal candidate is a scientifically credible learning professional with a strong oncology background who can quickly absorb complex clinical data and translate it into engaging educational content. They should be comfortable leading learning initiatives independently, presenting to scientific audiences, and creating high-quality learning materials in a fast-paced pharmaceutical environment. Candidates should possess excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to make complex scientific information easy to understand and engaging for adult learners. Success in this role comes from combining scientific expertise with instructional design, program leadership, and strong stakeholder communication.
R& D Knowledge and Learning Senior Manager
As a Knowledge and Learning professional, you will play a strategic leadership role in shaping how our Global Medical Affairs teams learn, grow, and deliver on their mission. You will be responsible for proactively planning, implementing, and delivering scientific training globally, focused on advancing knowledge of therapeutic areas, the treatment landscape, and emerging data. This role requires close cross-functional collaboration with Global Medical, Scientific Communications, Clinical Development, and Medical Science Liaisons to ensure training strategies are aligned, integrated, and impactful. By driving a culture of scientific learning and excellence, you will ensure that medical teams are equipped with the scientific expertise needed, empowering them to advance patient care and achieve meaningful impact.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Global Medical Affairs leadership to anticipate learning needs, align scientific training with organizational strategy, and ensure they equip teams with the expertise required to meet their objectives.
- Lead the end-to-end process of proactively planning, implementing, and delivering global scientific trainings aligned with medical and organizational priorities.
- Design and implement global scientific learning strategies that deepen expertise and prepare teams for the evolving therapeutic landscape.
- Partner with subject matter experts to develop high-quality scientific training content and materials internally, ensuring accuracy, relevance, and scientific rigor.
- Lead new hire and new-to-product onboarding, ensuring teams are equipped with a strong foundation in disease state, treatment landscape, data, and strategy to be effective in their roles.
- Serve as a lead in scientific training, helping shape the long-term vision of scientific education and positioning training as a driver of organizational excellence.
- Introduce new approaches, tools, and technologies (e.g., digital platforms, modular learning, peer-to-peer exchange) to create engaging and impactful scientific training.
- Champion a culture of continuous scientific learning within Medical Affairs, fostering collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and scientific leadership development.
- Adapt scientific training to diverse geographies and functions, tailoring approaches to meet the needs of global and regional medical teams.
- Some travel may be required (approximately 20%).
Qualifications
- A professional degree of Pharm.D., or MD/DO or PhD in a relevant medical science field (e.g., biology, chemistry, pharmacology) with 5 or more years of biotech/pharmaceutical and/or clinical experience.
- Understanding of learning methodology and design.
- Excellent technical writing, oral, presentation, and project management skills and the ability to search, critically analyze, and summarize scientific literature.
- Understanding of the pharmaceutical commercialization process and knowledge of the legal and regulatory guidelines affecting promotion of prescription products.
- Ability to interface cross-functionally in a dynamic, matrixed environment.
Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual [salary/hourly rate] for this position is between $90.00 - 95.00 per hour. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits:
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance], [dental insurance], [vision insurance], [401(k) retirement plan], [life insurance], [long-term disability insurance], [short-term disability insurance], [paid parking/public transportation], [Paid time off], [Days/hours of paid sick and safe time], [Days/hours of paid vacation time], [Weeks of paid parental leave], [Paid holidays annually], [any additional benefits applicable].
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Training And Development Specialist
Frame your degree for specialty occupation
USCIS requires your degree field to directly relate to the role. A degree in instructional design, organizational development, or I/O psychology maps cleanly. A general business degree needs supporting coursework documentation to hold up under RFE scrutiny.
Target LCA-active employers in your sector
Search Migrate Mate to filter Training and Development Specialist roles by employers with verified LCA filing history. Companies that file LCAs for this exact occupation code have already cleared DOL prevailing-wage certification, cutting weeks from your timeline.
Check prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
Your offer must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage for your work location and experience level. Run your job title and ZIP code through the OFLC Wage Search before your negotiation call so you know the floor your employer is already required to meet.
Verify your O*NET classification supports H-1B
Training and Development Specialist sits under O*NET occupation code 13-1151.00, classified as a Job Zone 4 specialty occupation. Confirm your actual job duties match this profile before filing. Roles that lean toward general HR coordination rather than curriculum design face higher RFE rates.
Prioritize E-Verify enrolled employers for faster onboarding
E-Verify enrollment is mandatory for cap-exempt employers and STEM OPT sponsors, but it also signals that an employer regularly processes work-authorization documentation. For H-1B transfers, these employers often have in-house immigration counsel and shorter I-129 prep timelines.
File your H-1B transfer before your current status expires
If you're switching employers, your new employer must file Form I-129 before your current H-1B end date. You can start the new role as soon as USCIS receives the petition, but a gap between end date and filing disrupts portability and requires a full new petition cycle.
H-1B Visa Training And Development Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Training and Development Specialist role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field such as instructional design, organizational development, or human resources. USCIS evaluates the job duties, not just the title. Roles focused on curriculum development, needs analysis, and learning-program design consistently meet the specialty occupation standard. General training coordinator positions with no degree requirement in a specific field may not qualify.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Training and Development Specialists?
Large employers in technology, healthcare systems, financial services, and consulting firms file LCAs for this role most frequently. University and hospital systems are often cap-exempt, meaning they can sponsor H-1B petitions year-round without waiting for the annual lottery. You can browse verified H-1B sponsoring employers by occupation on Migrate Mate, filtered specifically for Training and Development Specialist roles.
What does the DOL prevailing wage requirement mean for my job offer?
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your occupation, geographic location, and experience level before USCIS will certify the LCA. The wage floor varies significantly by metro area. You can verify the applicable wage using the OFLC Wage Search tool before you receive an offer. Employers who underpay relative to the certified wage level face LCA violations.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new employer while working as a Training and Development Specialist?
Yes. H-1B portability allows you to start working for a new employer as soon as the new I-129 petition is received by USCIS, provided your current H-1B is valid and in lawful status. Your new employer files the transfer petition and a new LCA for the role. You don't need to wait for approval to begin the new job, but the petition must be filed before your current status expires.
How does the H-1B cap lottery affect my chances as a Training and Development Specialist?
Most private-sector employers filing for this role are subject to the annual H-1B cap of 65,000 regular slots plus 20,000 for U.S. master's degree holders. USCIS runs a random lottery each spring for petitions filed during the April registration window. Cap-exempt employers, including universities and nonprofit research organizations, can file year-round and are not subject to the lottery, which makes them worth targeting specifically.