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Get Access To All JobsJob title: Area Business Manager, Chicago S, IL
Location: Remote, US
About the Job
Are you ready to help further shape the US Sanofi Vaccines 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, and strengthen customer relationships? We are responsible for the implementation of a new go-to market strategy within the US Sanofi Vaccines business unit and searching for several Area Business Managers to pave the pathway forward with us.
The Sanofi Vaccines team aim is to remain an industry leader through evolving the way we operate and build our new business model. This model will be that can be responsive to fast changing customer needs and environment, engage in a business-to-business activities model that supports the growth of HCPs vaccine programs, with the right support to engage customers in the moments that matter in vaccines, while rewarding high performers and growth of our vaccines business.
The Area Business Manager (ABM) 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 clinically focused selling messages to create and grow revenue and to consistently deliver the Sanofi Vaccines portfolio goals.
The ABM will act as an “account orchestrator” to provide a more cohesive customer experience and ultimately improve customer and patient outcomes by leveraging cross-functional support from internal teams across US vaccines. The ABM will demonstrate initiative, drive, and independence, and take ownership for meeting and exceeding individual business goals – simply put the ABM plays the role of business owner for their book of business. This will be accomplished by driving performance and delivering results in a compliant manner with a high degree of integrity.
Join the team protecting half a billion lives every year with next-gen science, mRNA innovation, and AI Vaccines driven breakthroughs. In Vaccines, you’ll help advance prevention on a global scale - and shape the future of immunization.
Main Responsibilities
The Area Business Manager (ABM) will…
- Grow portfolio share and revenue and to consistently deliver on product goals.
- Be a therapeutic area expert, with the ability to position and differentiate products effectively.
- Collaborate and coordinate with other key field-based stakeholders such as Medical Science Liaisons, Market Access teammates, strategic account managers, Hospital business managers, and others in their territory to proactively address customer needs.
- Identify market dynamics and trends, develop strategies which support brand and corporate objectives, and ensure optimal account success within their assigned geography.
- Engage with the account and territory data, and work with internal data specialists to use insights that help HCPs operate more effectively.
- Determine optimal ABM strategy for HCPs in an agile way leveraging AI and other digital tools.
- Drive results by identifying key opportunities and developing strategic business plans to generate product utilization and grow territory business.
- Understand and differentiate portfolio contracting options and compared competitive offerings through financial presentations.
- Perform according to a buy/bill model, requiring a specialized skill set for operational support including but not limited to: Complex pricing analysis and price calculator usage, product shipping, monitoring contract compliance and securing contract amendments.
- Plan, organize, and execute local promotional speaker programs and activities.
- Maximize budget allocated to the geographic territory to support execution of strategies and tactics and generate/grow the business.
- Participate and help lead initiatives to support sales success as assigned (e.g. participate in industry related congresses, local and regional meetings and medical conferences).
About You
Basic Qualifications
Minimum required skills & experience:
- Bachelor’s degree
- A minimum of 3+ years of pharmaceutical, biotech or medical device sales experience required with business to business knowledge
- Broad understanding of the healthcare environment, decision making processes & market trends with a proven track record of accessing decision makers
- Possess skills and success within a business to business environment
- Strong commercial business acumen, strategic, critical thinking/problem solving and innovative thinking capabilities
- Ability to navigate a hybrid environment and determine the optimal HCP selling model
- Can dynamically adjust priorities due to changing circumstances
- An agile learner who is comfortable operating in complex environments
- Experience with omnichannel approaches, and can execute customer engagement through appropriate channels using insights
- Demonstrated ability to use data and data analytics by unearthing valuable insights from data that can help lead to new solutions for the customer
- Demonstrate a passion and learning aptitude for science and is proactive in strengthening knowledge related to disease-state, treatment options and healthcare trends
- The ability to execute tactical initiatives, provide ongoing feedback, and prioritize multiple products
- Broad field sales experience with demonstrated success with influencing decision makers
- Self-directed and organized with excellent execution and planning skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Must possess valid driver’s license, be eligible for insurance coverage and must be able to safely operate a vehicle
Preferred Qualifications
- Graduate degree
- A minimum of 5+ years of pharmaceutical, biotech or medical device sales experience with business to business experience
- Preferred 2+ years account management experience
- Enhanced digital acumen
- Strong clinical acumen
- Experience working in Market Access, Pricing, Contracting or Finance
- Proficient with MS Office and customer management databases
- Travel: Ability to travel up to 75% of the time to customers, conventions, training, and other internal meetings.
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 it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
- Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
- Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
- Help shape the future of care for chronic and complex conditions like aT1D, Type 2 diabetes, transplant, and cardiovascular disease.
- Drive meaningful impact at global scale: our medicines reach more than 100 million people each year.
- Be part of a simpler, digital- and AI-powered business that’s rethinking how we work and engage with the world.
Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse 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 Manager, Chicago S, IL
Location: Remote, US
About the Job
Are you ready to help further shape the US Sanofi Vaccines 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, and strengthen customer relationships? We are responsible for the implementation of a new go-to market strategy within the US Sanofi Vaccines business unit and searching for several Area Business Managers to pave the pathway forward with us.
The Sanofi Vaccines team aim is to remain an industry leader through evolving the way we operate and build our new business model. This model will be that can be responsive to fast changing customer needs and environment, engage in a business-to-business activities model that supports the growth of HCPs vaccine programs, with the right support to engage customers in the moments that matter in vaccines, while rewarding high performers and growth of our vaccines business.
The Area Business Manager (ABM) 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 clinically focused selling messages to create and grow revenue and to consistently deliver the Sanofi Vaccines portfolio goals.
The ABM will act as an “account orchestrator” to provide a more cohesive customer experience and ultimately improve customer and patient outcomes by leveraging cross-functional support from internal teams across US vaccines. The ABM will demonstrate initiative, drive, and independence, and take ownership for meeting and exceeding individual business goals – simply put the ABM plays the role of business owner for their book of business. This will be accomplished by driving performance and delivering results in a compliant manner with a high degree of integrity.
Join the team protecting half a billion lives every year with next-gen science, mRNA innovation, and AI Vaccines driven breakthroughs. In Vaccines, you’ll help advance prevention on a global scale - and shape the future of immunization.
Main Responsibilities
The Area Business Manager (ABM) will…
- Grow portfolio share and revenue and to consistently deliver on product goals.
- Be a therapeutic area expert, with the ability to position and differentiate products effectively.
- Collaborate and coordinate with other key field-based stakeholders such as Medical Science Liaisons, Market Access teammates, strategic account managers, Hospital business managers, and others in their territory to proactively address customer needs.
- Identify market dynamics and trends, develop strategies which support brand and corporate objectives, and ensure optimal account success within their assigned geography.
- Engage with the account and territory data, and work with internal data specialists to use insights that help HCPs operate more effectively.
- Determine optimal ABM strategy for HCPs in an agile way leveraging AI and other digital tools.
- Drive results by identifying key opportunities and developing strategic business plans to generate product utilization and grow territory business.
- Understand and differentiate portfolio contracting options and compared competitive offerings through financial presentations.
- Perform according to a buy/bill model, requiring a specialized skill set for operational support including but not limited to: Complex pricing analysis and price calculator usage, product shipping, monitoring contract compliance and securing contract amendments.
- Plan, organize, and execute local promotional speaker programs and activities.
- Maximize budget allocated to the geographic territory to support execution of strategies and tactics and generate/grow the business.
- Participate and help lead initiatives to support sales success as assigned (e.g. participate in industry related congresses, local and regional meetings and medical conferences).
About You
Basic Qualifications
Minimum required skills & experience:
- Bachelor’s degree
- A minimum of 3+ years of pharmaceutical, biotech or medical device sales experience required with business to business knowledge
- Broad understanding of the healthcare environment, decision making processes & market trends with a proven track record of accessing decision makers
- Possess skills and success within a business to business environment
- Strong commercial business acumen, strategic, critical thinking/problem solving and innovative thinking capabilities
- Ability to navigate a hybrid environment and determine the optimal HCP selling model
- Can dynamically adjust priorities due to changing circumstances
- An agile learner who is comfortable operating in complex environments
- Experience with omnichannel approaches, and can execute customer engagement through appropriate channels using insights
- Demonstrated ability to use data and data analytics by unearthing valuable insights from data that can help lead to new solutions for the customer
- Demonstrate a passion and learning aptitude for science and is proactive in strengthening knowledge related to disease-state, treatment options and healthcare trends
- The ability to execute tactical initiatives, provide ongoing feedback, and prioritize multiple products
- Broad field sales experience with demonstrated success with influencing decision makers
- Self-directed and organized with excellent execution and planning skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Must possess valid driver’s license, be eligible for insurance coverage and must be able to safely operate a vehicle
Preferred Qualifications
- Graduate degree
- A minimum of 5+ years of pharmaceutical, biotech or medical device sales experience with business to business experience
- Preferred 2+ years account management experience
- Enhanced digital acumen
- Strong clinical acumen
- Experience working in Market Access, Pricing, Contracting or Finance
- Proficient with MS Office and customer management databases
- Travel: Ability to travel up to 75% of the time to customers, conventions, training, and other internal meetings.
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 it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
- Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
- Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
- Help shape the future of care for chronic and complex conditions like aT1D, Type 2 diabetes, transplant, and cardiovascular disease.
- Drive meaningful impact at global scale: our medicines reach more than 100 million people each year.
- Be part of a simpler, digital- and AI-powered business that’s rethinking how we work and engage with the world.
Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse 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.