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National Account Director roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under the USMCA's Management Consultant category when the position involves strategic business consulting functions. Canadian citizens can secure TN status at the border or a U.S. port of entry, while Mexican citizens apply through a U.S. consulate. Employer documentation of the role's consulting scope is essential.
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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
The National Portfolio Manager is a strategic partner to the National Lead, Oncology Nurse Educator (ONE) field team, responsible for development and support of portfolio nursing strategy and tactical plan and translating brand and portfolio strategies into effective field execution and ensuring the ONE organization has the tools, resources, processes, and cross-functional alignment needed to perform at a high level.
This role works across three hematology franchises and serves as a key connector between ONE, Brand, Sales, Field Operations, Field Force Effectiveness, Analytics, Training, Medical, and other enterprise partners. This role leads through influence in a highly matrixed environment, balancing portfolio priorities with the unique needs of each franchise while leading above brand portfolio nursing strategy for AbbVie Oncology Hematology portfolio products and customers it serves.
This position will not have external customer responsibilities but is expected to use previous external customer experience to help maximize performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive Portfolio Education Strategy & Execution: Translate oncology portfolio and brand priorities into clear ONE field priorities, plans, milestones, and execution requirements across three franchises.
- Support and Direct Creation of Portfolio Nurse Education Strategy: Support National Director in creation of portfolio above brand nursing strategy and tactics to support HCP/nurse education of disease and therapy management before, during, and after therapy.
- Lead Through Influence: Build alignment and drive decisions across cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority; navigate competing priorities with strong judgment, credibility, and organizational savvy.
- Optimize Field Operations: Partner with Field Operations to ensure ONE has effective tools, processes, systems, reporting, training, and infrastructure to execute efficiently and compliantly.
- Advocate for ONE: Represent the voice, needs, and value of the ONE organization in cross-functional planning; build compelling business cases for appropriate resources, capabilities, and support.
- Enable Field Performance: Identify emerging field needs, barriers, and opportunities and rapidly mobilize resources and partners to address them.
- Leverage Insights & Analytics: Use field data, customer insights, and performance trends to identify opportunities, inform priorities, and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
- Lead Strategic Initiatives: Own complex, cross-functional projects from strategy through implementation, managing priorities, dependencies, timelines, risks, and stakeholder accountability.
- Strengthen Communication & Engagement: Develop clear, compelling communications and executive presentations that create alignment, reinforce priorities, and keep the ONE and other in-field partners informed and engaged.
- Advance Innovation & Technology: Identify and implement opportunities to use technology, automation, analytics, and AI to improve ONE effectiveness, productivity, and scalability.
- Ensure Operational & Compliance Excellence: Partner with Legal, Compliance, and relevant stakeholders to ensure ONE activities, processes, and resources meet AbbVie standards and requirements. Explore benchmarking against other ONE networks to continuously evolve ways of working.
- Continuously Improve: Benchmark and evolve ONE ways of working, capabilities, and infrastructure to support a high-performing, scalable national organization.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required; nursing, healthcare, business, or life sciences preferred.
- 5+ years of pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotech, or related industry experience; oncology/hematology strongly preferred.
- Previous field leadership, sales leadership, field operations, commercial strategy, or field effectiveness experience preferred.
- Clinical & Industry Expertise: Strong clinical patient management experience, oncology clinical acumen and understanding of hematology/oncology treatment, nursing practice, healthcare environments, and the pharmaceutical industry.
- Strategic & Business Acumen: Ability to translate strategy into focused field execution; understand customer and account dynamics; use data and insights to prioritize resources and make sound business decisions.
- Influence & Collaboration: Proven ability to influence without authority and lead effectively across cross-functional teams and organizational levels. Demonstrated track record of delivering results, building trusted relationships, and operating with an enterprise mindset.
- Communication: Exceptional communication, presentation, facilitation, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to translate complex clinical and business information into clear, actionable messages.
- Judgment & Agility: Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, sound business judgment, and the ability to manage competing priorities and lead effectively through ambiguity and change.
- Talent & Growth Mindset: Demonstrated commitment to developing others and continuously expanding personal and organizational capability; ability and desire to grow into broader leadership responsibilities.
- Compliance & Integrity: Demonstrated understanding of pharmaceutical compliance and regulatory requirements and the ability to maintain appropriate boundaries between clinical education and promotional activity.
- Project Management Excellence: Strong project management, prioritization, and execution skills with a demonstrated sense of urgency. Proficiency with technology, analytics, and emerging AI capabilities to improve business effectiveness.
Additional Requirements:
- Travel: up to 30%-50%, depending on residence location. Located in the US, preferably near a metropolitan airport.
- Required to satisfy all applicable health care industry credentialing requirements to gain & maintain entry into facilities and organizations. These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases, fingerprinting & specific licenses required by states or cities.
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
The National Portfolio Manager is a strategic partner to the National Lead, Oncology Nurse Educator (ONE) field team, responsible for development and support of portfolio nursing strategy and tactical plan and translating brand and portfolio strategies into effective field execution and ensuring the ONE organization has the tools, resources, processes, and cross-functional alignment needed to perform at a high level.
This role works across three hematology franchises and serves as a key connector between ONE, Brand, Sales, Field Operations, Field Force Effectiveness, Analytics, Training, Medical, and other enterprise partners. This role leads through influence in a highly matrixed environment, balancing portfolio priorities with the unique needs of each franchise while leading above brand portfolio nursing strategy for AbbVie Oncology Hematology portfolio products and customers it serves.
This position will not have external customer responsibilities but is expected to use previous external customer experience to help maximize performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive Portfolio Education Strategy & Execution: Translate oncology portfolio and brand priorities into clear ONE field priorities, plans, milestones, and execution requirements across three franchises.
- Support and Direct Creation of Portfolio Nurse Education Strategy: Support National Director in creation of portfolio above brand nursing strategy and tactics to support HCP/nurse education of disease and therapy management before, during, and after therapy.
- Lead Through Influence: Build alignment and drive decisions across cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority; navigate competing priorities with strong judgment, credibility, and organizational savvy.
- Optimize Field Operations: Partner with Field Operations to ensure ONE has effective tools, processes, systems, reporting, training, and infrastructure to execute efficiently and compliantly.
- Advocate for ONE: Represent the voice, needs, and value of the ONE organization in cross-functional planning; build compelling business cases for appropriate resources, capabilities, and support.
- Enable Field Performance: Identify emerging field needs, barriers, and opportunities and rapidly mobilize resources and partners to address them.
- Leverage Insights & Analytics: Use field data, customer insights, and performance trends to identify opportunities, inform priorities, and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
- Lead Strategic Initiatives: Own complex, cross-functional projects from strategy through implementation, managing priorities, dependencies, timelines, risks, and stakeholder accountability.
- Strengthen Communication & Engagement: Develop clear, compelling communications and executive presentations that create alignment, reinforce priorities, and keep the ONE and other in-field partners informed and engaged.
- Advance Innovation & Technology: Identify and implement opportunities to use technology, automation, analytics, and AI to improve ONE effectiveness, productivity, and scalability.
- Ensure Operational & Compliance Excellence: Partner with Legal, Compliance, and relevant stakeholders to ensure ONE activities, processes, and resources meet AbbVie standards and requirements. Explore benchmarking against other ONE networks to continuously evolve ways of working.
- Continuously Improve: Benchmark and evolve ONE ways of working, capabilities, and infrastructure to support a high-performing, scalable national organization.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required; nursing, healthcare, business, or life sciences preferred.
- 5+ years of pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotech, or related industry experience; oncology/hematology strongly preferred.
- Previous field leadership, sales leadership, field operations, commercial strategy, or field effectiveness experience preferred.
- Clinical & Industry Expertise: Strong clinical patient management experience, oncology clinical acumen and understanding of hematology/oncology treatment, nursing practice, healthcare environments, and the pharmaceutical industry.
- Strategic & Business Acumen: Ability to translate strategy into focused field execution; understand customer and account dynamics; use data and insights to prioritize resources and make sound business decisions.
- Influence & Collaboration: Proven ability to influence without authority and lead effectively across cross-functional teams and organizational levels. Demonstrated track record of delivering results, building trusted relationships, and operating with an enterprise mindset.
- Communication: Exceptional communication, presentation, facilitation, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to translate complex clinical and business information into clear, actionable messages.
- Judgment & Agility: Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, sound business judgment, and the ability to manage competing priorities and lead effectively through ambiguity and change.
- Talent & Growth Mindset: Demonstrated commitment to developing others and continuously expanding personal and organizational capability; ability and desire to grow into broader leadership responsibilities.
- Compliance & Integrity: Demonstrated understanding of pharmaceutical compliance and regulatory requirements and the ability to maintain appropriate boundaries between clinical education and promotional activity.
- Project Management Excellence: Strong project management, prioritization, and execution skills with a demonstrated sense of urgency. Proficiency with technology, analytics, and emerging AI capabilities to improve business effectiveness.
Additional Requirements:
- Travel: up to 30%-50%, depending on residence location. Located in the US, preferably near a metropolitan airport.
- Required to satisfy all applicable health care industry credentialing requirements to gain & maintain entry into facilities and organizations. These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases, fingerprinting & specific licenses required by states or cities.
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 TN Visa Sponsorship in National Account Director
Frame your role as management consulting
National Account Director positions qualify under TN visa's Management Consultant category only when the role involves advising clients on business strategy, not purely sales execution. Document your consulting functions clearly in your offer letter before any employer files.
Request a detailed support letter early
Your employer's support letter must describe your specific advisory duties, your bachelor's degree field, and why the role qualifies as specialty consulting. A vague letter citing only your title is the most common reason CBP officers ask additional questions at the border.
Search for employers with recent visa filings
Use Migrate Mate to identify companies with recent visa filings that match senior account and consulting roles. Targeting employers already experienced with work visa sponsorship streamlines the process, since they understand the documentation requirements and can move more quickly from offer to start date.
Target enterprise-focused companies over pure sales orgs
Enterprise technology, professional services, and B2B SaaS firms are more likely to structure National Account Director roles around strategic consulting deliverables, which strengthens your TN eligibility argument compared to roles framed around revenue quotas.
Understand the Mexican consular appointment timeline
Mexican citizens must attend a U.S. consular interview before beginning work, unlike Canadians who can seek TN admission directly at a port of entry. Factor in consulate wait times when negotiating your start date with a prospective employer.
Align your degree field with the advisory scope
CBP officers assess whether your academic background supports a consulting function in your industry. A business administration or marketing degree paired with a role description emphasizing strategic account planning is a stronger TN package than a mismatched credential.
National Account Director TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a National Account Director role qualify for a TN visa?
It can qualify under the TN Management Consultant category, but only when the role is structured around strategic advisory functions rather than direct sales. Your offer letter and employer support letter must specifically describe consulting duties such as developing client business strategies, assessing organizational needs, or advising on account growth plans. A title alone is not enough for CBP to approve TN status.
How does TN visa sponsorship compare to H-1B for National Account Director roles?
TN has no annual lottery and no cap for Canadian citizens, so you can start as soon as CBP approves your application at a port of entry. H-1B visa requires winning a randomized lottery and waiting up to a year before employment begins. For Mexican nationals, the TN consular process is still faster and more predictable than the H-1B lottery cycle, making TN the practical first choice when the role qualifies.
What documents does my employer need to provide for TN sponsorship?
Your employer must produce a support letter on company letterhead that describes the specific consulting nature of your National Account Director role, confirms your degree qualifications, states the duration of employment, and certifies your compensation terms. CBP reviews this letter alongside your academic credentials at the port of entry. The letter carries more weight than your job title, so vague language about sales responsibilities can create problems.
How can I find National Account Director jobs that offer TN visa sponsorship?
Use Migrate Mate to search specifically for National Account Director openings at employers with demonstrated TN sponsorship activity. Most general job boards don't filter by visa sponsorship type, so you end up spending time on applications that lead to rejections once the employer learns you need TN support. Migrate Mate surfaces roles where sponsorship is already part of the employer's hiring posture.
Can I change employers after receiving TN status in a National Account Director role?
Yes, but your TN status is tied to your specific employer and role. Changing jobs requires a new TN approval before you begin work with the new company. Canadian citizens can seek a new TN at a port of entry with the new employer's documentation, while Mexican citizens must return to a U.S. consulate. Plan your transition timeline carefully so there's no gap between your last day and your new TN start date.