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- Location: Remote, US
About the Job:
The ABAVs will be responsible for engaging in account-based business-to-business interactions within customer segments (Pediatrics, Family/General Practice, IDN/IHNs, Health Systems, and Federally Qualified Health Centers), while presenting scientifically focused selling messages. We work to create and grow revenue and consistently deliver the Sanofi Vaccines portfolio goals.
In this field-based specialty sales position, the Area Business Associate-Vaccines is responsible for the successful promotion of the Sanofi Vaccines portfolio in territories where additional resources and share of voice are required. Within a highly competitive marketplace, the ABAV will be called upon to successfully execute sales strategies to meet and exceed demand targets. The ABAV role offers the successful candidate an opportunity to leverage sales skills in a healthcare environment with tremendous opportunities for career growth. ABAVs will have the opportunity to travel and build relationships across the Vaccines organization. The role will be supported with a mentor and comprehensive training.
Are you ready to help further shape the US Sanofi Vaccines Division to become a more agile, digital, and business-to-business driven organization? Do you thrive in an agile, collaborative, business acumen-driven organization where positive outcomes are rewarded? Have you ever wanted to own your own franchise and be accountable to drive business outcomes across a full portfolio of vaccines while strengthening customer relationships? We are responsible for the implementation of a new go-to-market strategy within the US Sanofi Vaccines business unit and are searching for several Area Business Associates to assist our organization in paving the pathway forward.
The Sanofi Vaccines team aims to remain an industry leader through evolving the way we operate and build our new business model. This model will be responsive to fast-changing customer needs and environments, engage in a business-to-business activities model that supports the growth of HCP vaccine programs, and provide the right support to engage customers in the moments that matter in vaccines while rewarding high performers and driving business growth.
Join the team protecting half a billion lives every year with next-gen science, mRNA innovation, and AI driven breakthroughs. In Vaccines, you’ll help advance prevention on a global scale - and shape the future of immunization.
Main Responsibilities:
In addition to the responsibilities listed below, candidates are expected to demonstrate strong business acumen, customer engagement, territory management, stakeholder influence, and peer coordination in support of business objectives.
- Grow Vaccine Portfolio share and revenue and consistently deliver on product goals.
- Travel to assigned territory or territories during the assigned period of coverage for 4-5 days each week.
- Be a vaccine portfolio expert, with the ability to position and differentiate products effectively.
- Collaborate and coordinate with Medical Science Liaisons, Market Access teammates, Strategic Account Managers, Hospital Business Managers, and others to proactively address customer needs.
- Execute strategies that support brand and corporate objectives and ensure optimal account success.
- Engage with account and territory data and leverage insights to help customers operate more effectively.
- Determine optimal ABAV strategy for assigned accounts and HCPs utilizing AI and digital tools.
- Drive results by identifying opportunities and developing strategic business plans to grow territory performance.
- Understand and differentiate portfolio contracting options and competitive offerings through financial presentations.
- Perform according to a buy-and-bill model, including pricing analysis, contract management, shipping support, and compliance monitoring.
- Adapt to changing environments and sales methodologies, including remote selling techniques.
- Plan, organize, and execute local promotional speaker programs and activities.
- Participate in and help lead initiatives supporting sales success, including congresses, regional meetings, and medical conferences.
- Achieve and exceed assigned monthly, quarterly, and annual sales goals.
- Attend local, regional, and national meetings as directed.
About You:
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree.
- 0-2+ years of sales experience with proven success; business-to-business sales experience preferred. Recent college graduates are welcome to apply.
- Demonstrated learning agility to absorb and apply technical and scientific product information.
- Geographic flexibility and willingness to travel anywhere in the United States on a weekly basis with limited notice (80%+ travel).
- Self-starter who can quickly form customer relationships and thrive in changing environments.
- General understanding of and passion for science, public health, and community impact.
- Self-directed and organized with strong planning and execution skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and customer relationship management systems.
- Valid driver's license and ability to safely operate a vehicle.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Degree in Life Sciences or Business preferred; MBA a plus.
- Excellent verbal communication and presentation skills, including comfort presenting to larger audiences.
- Strong collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to work across multiple functions.
- Demonstrated leadership experience.
Additional Success Factors:
- Demonstrated customer engagement and relationship-building capabilities.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to communicate clinical, operational, financial, and economic value.
- Experience influencing stakeholders and collaborating across cross-functional teams.
- Proven territory management and account planning capabilities.
- High learning agility, curiosity, and adaptability in dynamic environments.
Customer Competencies:
- Customer Engagement: Use curiosity and thoughtful planning to bring the right Sanofi resources together, creating value for customers and helping achieve or surpass revenue goals.
- Results Driven: Take ownership, act with urgency, and maintain high standards to consistently deliver strong business outcomes.
- Impact and Influence: Collaborate effectively with customers, clinical leadership, and internal partners to drive customer satisfaction, innovation, and business growth.
Technical Skills & Competencies:
- Business Acumen: Effectively sell across the full vaccine portfolio, execute B2B strategies, navigate complex contracts, and clearly communicate clinical, financial, and economic value.
- Peer Coordination: Drive collaborative selling through aligned goals, coordinated account targeting, and sharing customer and market insights across teams.
- Stakeholder Influence: Engage key decision-makers by effectively managing and influencing internal and external stakeholders.
- Therapeutic Expertise: Apply strong clinical knowledge to position and differentiate products within the vaccine portfolio.
- Territory Management: Monitor territory performance, manage business operations, and consistently deliver against performance goals.
Key Behaviors:
The ideal candidate will demonstrate:
- Persuasiveness
- Strategic Thinking
- Integrity
- Agility
- Active Listening
- Strong Organizational Skills
- Creativity and Innovation
- Curiosity and Proactive Mindset
- Customer Focus
- Collaboration
- Communication and Presentation Excellence
Why Choose Us?
- Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
- Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether through promotion or lateral movement, domestically or internationally.
- Enjoy a thoughtful rewards package that recognizes your contributions and amplifies your impact.
- Take care of yourself and your family with a broad range of health and wellbeing benefits, including healthcare, prevention and wellness programs, and at least 14 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave.
- Work at the forefront of AI-driven research, smart manufacturing, and groundbreaking mRNA platforms that are redefining the future of immunology.
- Help protect half a billion people every year, contributing to one of the largest global vaccination efforts in healthcare.
- Be part of a company that believes in the future with significant investment annually in manufacturing innovation.
Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.
All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.
Job Title: Area Business Associate - Vaccines
- Location: Remote, US
About the Job:
The ABAVs will be responsible for engaging in account-based business-to-business interactions within customer segments (Pediatrics, Family/General Practice, IDN/IHNs, Health Systems, and Federally Qualified Health Centers), while presenting scientifically focused selling messages. We work to create and grow revenue and consistently deliver the Sanofi Vaccines portfolio goals.
In this field-based specialty sales position, the Area Business Associate-Vaccines is responsible for the successful promotion of the Sanofi Vaccines portfolio in territories where additional resources and share of voice are required. Within a highly competitive marketplace, the ABAV will be called upon to successfully execute sales strategies to meet and exceed demand targets. The ABAV role offers the successful candidate an opportunity to leverage sales skills in a healthcare environment with tremendous opportunities for career growth. ABAVs will have the opportunity to travel and build relationships across the Vaccines organization. The role will be supported with a mentor and comprehensive training.
Are you ready to help further shape the US Sanofi Vaccines Division to become a more agile, digital, and business-to-business driven organization? Do you thrive in an agile, collaborative, business acumen-driven organization where positive outcomes are rewarded? Have you ever wanted to own your own franchise and be accountable to drive business outcomes across a full portfolio of vaccines while strengthening customer relationships? We are responsible for the implementation of a new go-to-market strategy within the US Sanofi Vaccines business unit and are searching for several Area Business Associates to assist our organization in paving the pathway forward.
The Sanofi Vaccines team aims to remain an industry leader through evolving the way we operate and build our new business model. This model will be responsive to fast-changing customer needs and environments, engage in a business-to-business activities model that supports the growth of HCP vaccine programs, and provide the right support to engage customers in the moments that matter in vaccines while rewarding high performers and driving business growth.
Join the team protecting half a billion lives every year with next-gen science, mRNA innovation, and AI driven breakthroughs. In Vaccines, you’ll help advance prevention on a global scale - and shape the future of immunization.
Main Responsibilities:
In addition to the responsibilities listed below, candidates are expected to demonstrate strong business acumen, customer engagement, territory management, stakeholder influence, and peer coordination in support of business objectives.
- Grow Vaccine Portfolio share and revenue and consistently deliver on product goals.
- Travel to assigned territory or territories during the assigned period of coverage for 4-5 days each week.
- Be a vaccine portfolio expert, with the ability to position and differentiate products effectively.
- Collaborate and coordinate with Medical Science Liaisons, Market Access teammates, Strategic Account Managers, Hospital Business Managers, and others to proactively address customer needs.
- Execute strategies that support brand and corporate objectives and ensure optimal account success.
- Engage with account and territory data and leverage insights to help customers operate more effectively.
- Determine optimal ABAV strategy for assigned accounts and HCPs utilizing AI and digital tools.
- Drive results by identifying opportunities and developing strategic business plans to grow territory performance.
- Understand and differentiate portfolio contracting options and competitive offerings through financial presentations.
- Perform according to a buy-and-bill model, including pricing analysis, contract management, shipping support, and compliance monitoring.
- Adapt to changing environments and sales methodologies, including remote selling techniques.
- Plan, organize, and execute local promotional speaker programs and activities.
- Participate in and help lead initiatives supporting sales success, including congresses, regional meetings, and medical conferences.
- Achieve and exceed assigned monthly, quarterly, and annual sales goals.
- Attend local, regional, and national meetings as directed.
About You:
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree.
- 0-2+ years of sales experience with proven success; business-to-business sales experience preferred. Recent college graduates are welcome to apply.
- Demonstrated learning agility to absorb and apply technical and scientific product information.
- Geographic flexibility and willingness to travel anywhere in the United States on a weekly basis with limited notice (80%+ travel).
- Self-starter who can quickly form customer relationships and thrive in changing environments.
- General understanding of and passion for science, public health, and community impact.
- Self-directed and organized with strong planning and execution skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and customer relationship management systems.
- Valid driver's license and ability to safely operate a vehicle.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Degree in Life Sciences or Business preferred; MBA a plus.
- Excellent verbal communication and presentation skills, including comfort presenting to larger audiences.
- Strong collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to work across multiple functions.
- Demonstrated leadership experience.
Additional Success Factors:
- Demonstrated customer engagement and relationship-building capabilities.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to communicate clinical, operational, financial, and economic value.
- Experience influencing stakeholders and collaborating across cross-functional teams.
- Proven territory management and account planning capabilities.
- High learning agility, curiosity, and adaptability in dynamic environments.
Customer Competencies:
- Customer Engagement: Use curiosity and thoughtful planning to bring the right Sanofi resources together, creating value for customers and helping achieve or surpass revenue goals.
- Results Driven: Take ownership, act with urgency, and maintain high standards to consistently deliver strong business outcomes.
- Impact and Influence: Collaborate effectively with customers, clinical leadership, and internal partners to drive customer satisfaction, innovation, and business growth.
Technical Skills & Competencies:
- Business Acumen: Effectively sell across the full vaccine portfolio, execute B2B strategies, navigate complex contracts, and clearly communicate clinical, financial, and economic value.
- Peer Coordination: Drive collaborative selling through aligned goals, coordinated account targeting, and sharing customer and market insights across teams.
- Stakeholder Influence: Engage key decision-makers by effectively managing and influencing internal and external stakeholders.
- Therapeutic Expertise: Apply strong clinical knowledge to position and differentiate products within the vaccine portfolio.
- Territory Management: Monitor territory performance, manage business operations, and consistently deliver against performance goals.
Key Behaviors:
The ideal candidate will demonstrate:
- Persuasiveness
- Strategic Thinking
- Integrity
- Agility
- Active Listening
- Strong Organizational Skills
- Creativity and Innovation
- Curiosity and Proactive Mindset
- Customer Focus
- Collaboration
- Communication and Presentation Excellence
Why Choose Us?
- Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
- Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether through promotion or lateral movement, domestically or internationally.
- Enjoy a thoughtful rewards package that recognizes your contributions and amplifies your impact.
- Take care of yourself and your family with a broad range of health and wellbeing benefits, including healthcare, prevention and wellness programs, and at least 14 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave.
- Work at the forefront of AI-driven research, smart manufacturing, and groundbreaking mRNA platforms that are redefining the future of immunology.
- Help protect half a billion people every year, contributing to one of the largest global vaccination efforts in healthcare.
- Be part of a company that believes in the future with significant investment annually in manufacturing innovation.
Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.
All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as an Area Business Manager
Target regional and national companies with sponsorship history
Large consumer goods, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies regularly sponsor Area Business Managers. Focus on employers with established immigration programs rather than startups, where sponsorship processes are less defined and approval timelines less predictable.
Connect your degree directly to the role
Area Business Manager roles qualify as specialty occupations when tied to a relevant degree in business, marketing, or a related field. Be explicit in interviews about how your academic background maps to territory management, sales strategy, or client development responsibilities.
Ask about sponsorship early, but strategically
Raise the sponsorship question after a recruiter screens you in, not before. Asking too early can remove you from consideration. Once there is mutual interest, ask directly whether the company has sponsored H-1B visas for this role category previously.
Build a track record with measurable outcomes
Area Business Managers are evaluated on territory growth, account retention, and revenue targets. Document your results from internships or prior roles with specific metrics. Employers are far more willing to sponsor candidates who demonstrate a clear, quantifiable business impact.
Use Migrate Mate to filter for OPT-friendly employers
Browse Area Business Manager listings on Migrate Mate to identify companies already open to OPT work authorization. Filtering by sponsorship willingness saves significant time and helps you focus your applications on employers where your visa status will not be an obstacle.
Area Business Manager OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can I work as an Area Business Manager on F-1 OPT?
Yes. Area Business Manager roles fall squarely within business and sales management, which qualifies under F-1 OPT as long as the work is directly related to your degree field. A degree in business administration, marketing, management, or a closely related discipline satisfies the relatedness requirement that USCIS and your DSO will look for when authorizing your OPT employment.
Does an Area Business Manager role qualify for STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your degree, not the job title. If you hold a STEM-designated degree such as a bachelor's or master's in a qualifying field like supply chain, management information systems, or certain business analytics programs, and the role involves analytical or technical responsibilities tied to that field, you may qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Confirm your degree's STEM classification with your DSO before assuming eligibility.
Will companies sponsor an H-1B visa for an Area Business Manager after OPT?
Many do, particularly in industries like pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer packaged goods, where Area Business Manager roles are well-established and tied to specific degree requirements. The role needs to qualify as a specialty occupation under H-1B standards, meaning a bachelor's degree in a specific field must be a standard requirement for entry. Companies with active immigration programs are your best path to sponsorship, and Migrate Mate lists employers who have demonstrated openness to sponsoring OPT candidates.
What happens to my OPT status if I change territories or get promoted during my authorization period?
Your OPT authorization is tied to your degree field and employer, not your specific job title or territory. A promotion or internal transfer within the same company generally does not require a new OPT application as long as the work remains related to your degree. If you change employers, you must report the change to your DSO promptly. Unreported employer changes can create compliance issues and jeopardize your status.
How should I handle the OPT unemployment limit as an Area Business Manager?
F-1 OPT students may not accumulate more than 90 days of unemployment during the standard OPT period (150 days with an approved STEM extension). Area Business Manager roles can have longer hiring cycles due to territory-specific hiring timelines and multi-round interviews. Start your job search early, track your unemployment days carefully, and consider short-term contract or internship work in a related capacity if a gap extends. Migrate Mate can help you find OPT-eligible roles faster to minimize that risk.