Biotech & Pharma OPT Jobs in Colorado
Colorado's biotech and pharma sector is concentrated along the Denver-Boulder corridor, with employers like Palatin Technologies, Envision Genomics, and larger biopharma operations in the Denver Tech Center actively hiring research, regulatory, and development talent. F-1 OPT authorization lets international students work in qualifying biotech and pharma roles while their degree field aligns with the position.
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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
This role is field-based and candidates should live within a reasonable distance from the primary city. Talent will be hired at a level commensurate with experience.
The Account Specialist is responsible for maximizing opportunities for the product portfolio in single layer geography. This individual will develop and maintain strategic business relationships with a wide spectrum of customers to include Hospitals, IDN’s, Academic Institutions, Outpatient Accounts, Long Term Care Facilities, Government Accounts, and Specialty Private Practice. Business relationships will focus on increasing patient access to portfolio products, consistent with approved labels, developing new business, expanding current business, maximizing resource utilization, and increasing sales to achieve geography sales goals through a solution oriented and collaborative approach. The role will involve networking, client services, and a thorough understanding of institutional and medical practices.
Responsibilities
- Advances hospital and specialty customers along the sales continuum and gains prescriber commitments through effective questioning, active listening, and utilization of approved data and resources. Delivers on-label presentations/sales calls to appropriately highlight the benefits and risks of the product portfolio to create awareness of product solutions and address gaps in therapeutic areas, resulting in sales goal achievement.
- Develops professional relationships and differentiates the Anti-Infective portfolio’s value proposition at all levels (C-Suite, Physicians, Hospital Staff, Support Personnel) within accounts and departments to further the use of the product portfolio.
- Strong understanding and ability to problem solve product and patient flow through Specialty Pharmacy, Specialty Distribution, and Buy and Bill channels. Ability to coordinate and mobilize key stakeholders across multiple departments with competing goals to align individuals on patient focused solutions.
- Uses opportunities to understand and address customer needs. Builds strong relationships that provide market intelligence and support development of compliant and innovative programs and initiatives. Builds and maintains relationships across accounts that result in opportunities to benefit patients, physicians, and other HCPs within the geography.
- Ability to achieve success in a complex, matrixed, account-based selling environment in which the need for collaboration and cross functional discipline is critical. Consistently partners with AbbVie in-field (MSLs, National Director of Accounts and Key Account Directors) to and in-house teams to identify, design, and/or adapt appropriate approaches and tactics.
- Creates, develops, executes, and monitors strategic geography business plans. Determines appropriate department, channel, HCP focus and frequency by account to deliver on sales objectives. Aligns appropriate resources to support tactic execution and adjusts as needed.
- Sources, interprets and utilizes key data by account to develop and maintain working account profiles and relationship maps for all territory accounts to maximize call continuum and communication. Consistently targets key stakeholders and decision makers within each hospital/institution/outpatient setting to expand physician usage and customer base.
- Attend and actively participate in local boards, societies, conventions, and other HCP meetings when appropriate. Represent AbbVie and assigned products at such venues, build/improve new/existing relationships. Channel key information, developments, or findings to internal partners/stakeholders. All communications in these forums are on-label.
- Complete all AbbVie required training and maintain adherence to all company policies and OEC/Legal procedures.
Meet health care industry representative credentialing requirements to gain entry into facilities and organizations that are in assigned territory. These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, and proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases.
- Proactively collaborates across multiple departments within healthcare institutions and across organizations. Seamlessly works with cross-functional partners including National Director of Accounts and Key Account Directors to develop processes within the account base while working with Medical Science Liaisons to develop compliant communication strategies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in health, sciences, pharmacy or business-related field preferred or relevant and equivalent industry experience required. Relevant and equivalent industry experience required in lieu of a bachelor’s degree is at least five (5) years of experience with three (3) or more years of experience within the pharmaceutical/health/science industry preferred and a high school diploma/GED required.
- Account based selling experience (Hospitals, Wound Care Centers, or Infusion Centers) and experience building advocacy in hospitals, with or without a formulary win, for acute products. History of navigating the matrix environment within accounts and complex customers such as IDN’s, Academic Institutions, Hospitals, Outpatient accounts etc.
- Knowledge of formulary approval process and driving formulary approvals. Experience with Buy and Bill and specialty pharmacy products is preferred.
- Documented history of strong sales performance, consistent top performer, in a challenging market space or product portfolio. Proven advanced sales skills, ability to communicate novel or complex products and process while keeping it simple and overcoming customer concerns, advancing the sale and gaining new business. Strong team player mentality and a successful history of working as an individual contributor within a collaborative environment.
- Strong business acumen: individual accountability and ownership of sales geography with the ability to multitask in a productive manner, solving problems and influencing without authority. Strong desire to “explore the unknown” and continuously enhance personal, professional, and account knowledge. Ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple accounts. Business savvy, analytical ability to analyze diverse sets of data using multiple tools and define account/program strategies that drive.
- Strong planning and organization skills. Strong presentation and facilitation skills. Proven ability to learn procedural, technical, and clinical information quickly. Ability to understand, articulate, and routinely present complex scientific information to a variety of audiences. Strong problem resolution skills.
- Influences others and is viewed as a credible and respected role model and resource among peers. Builds collaborative partnerships with colleagues and cross functional team. Leads by example; Consistently displays positive behaviors and peer coaching through changing and challenging environments. Ability to fully cover the assigned geography.
- Valid driver’s license: Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test and meet safe driving requirements.
- Ability to travel adequately to cover territory, as well as overnight attendance at scheduled training events and sales meetings.
- Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment.
- An essential requirement of your position is to satisfy all applicable health care industry representative (HCIR) credentialing requirements to gain and maintain entry into facilities and organizations that are in your assigned territory. You must also be in good standing and/or eligible to obtain these credentials.
- These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases, fingerprinting and specific licenses required by individual state or cities. Please remember that you are solely responsible for ensuring that you satisfy all HCIR credentialing requirements and for any associated liability for failing to do so. AbbVie has resources available to you to help answer questions you may have.
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 short-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
This role is field-based and candidates should live within a reasonable distance from the primary city. Talent will be hired at a level commensurate with experience.
The Account Specialist is responsible for maximizing opportunities for the product portfolio in single layer geography. This individual will develop and maintain strategic business relationships with a wide spectrum of customers to include Hospitals, IDN’s, Academic Institutions, Outpatient Accounts, Long Term Care Facilities, Government Accounts, and Specialty Private Practice. Business relationships will focus on increasing patient access to portfolio products, consistent with approved labels, developing new business, expanding current business, maximizing resource utilization, and increasing sales to achieve geography sales goals through a solution oriented and collaborative approach. The role will involve networking, client services, and a thorough understanding of institutional and medical practices.
Responsibilities
- Advances hospital and specialty customers along the sales continuum and gains prescriber commitments through effective questioning, active listening, and utilization of approved data and resources. Delivers on-label presentations/sales calls to appropriately highlight the benefits and risks of the product portfolio to create awareness of product solutions and address gaps in therapeutic areas, resulting in sales goal achievement.
- Develops professional relationships and differentiates the Anti-Infective portfolio’s value proposition at all levels (C-Suite, Physicians, Hospital Staff, Support Personnel) within accounts and departments to further the use of the product portfolio.
- Strong understanding and ability to problem solve product and patient flow through Specialty Pharmacy, Specialty Distribution, and Buy and Bill channels. Ability to coordinate and mobilize key stakeholders across multiple departments with competing goals to align individuals on patient focused solutions.
- Uses opportunities to understand and address customer needs. Builds strong relationships that provide market intelligence and support development of compliant and innovative programs and initiatives. Builds and maintains relationships across accounts that result in opportunities to benefit patients, physicians, and other HCPs within the geography.
- Ability to achieve success in a complex, matrixed, account-based selling environment in which the need for collaboration and cross functional discipline is critical. Consistently partners with AbbVie in-field (MSLs, National Director of Accounts and Key Account Directors) to and in-house teams to identify, design, and/or adapt appropriate approaches and tactics.
- Creates, develops, executes, and monitors strategic geography business plans. Determines appropriate department, channel, HCP focus and frequency by account to deliver on sales objectives. Aligns appropriate resources to support tactic execution and adjusts as needed.
- Sources, interprets and utilizes key data by account to develop and maintain working account profiles and relationship maps for all territory accounts to maximize call continuum and communication. Consistently targets key stakeholders and decision makers within each hospital/institution/outpatient setting to expand physician usage and customer base.
- Attend and actively participate in local boards, societies, conventions, and other HCP meetings when appropriate. Represent AbbVie and assigned products at such venues, build/improve new/existing relationships. Channel key information, developments, or findings to internal partners/stakeholders. All communications in these forums are on-label.
- Complete all AbbVie required training and maintain adherence to all company policies and OEC/Legal procedures.
Meet health care industry representative credentialing requirements to gain entry into facilities and organizations that are in assigned territory. These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, and proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases.
- Proactively collaborates across multiple departments within healthcare institutions and across organizations. Seamlessly works with cross-functional partners including National Director of Accounts and Key Account Directors to develop processes within the account base while working with Medical Science Liaisons to develop compliant communication strategies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in health, sciences, pharmacy or business-related field preferred or relevant and equivalent industry experience required. Relevant and equivalent industry experience required in lieu of a bachelor’s degree is at least five (5) years of experience with three (3) or more years of experience within the pharmaceutical/health/science industry preferred and a high school diploma/GED required.
- Account based selling experience (Hospitals, Wound Care Centers, or Infusion Centers) and experience building advocacy in hospitals, with or without a formulary win, for acute products. History of navigating the matrix environment within accounts and complex customers such as IDN’s, Academic Institutions, Hospitals, Outpatient accounts etc.
- Knowledge of formulary approval process and driving formulary approvals. Experience with Buy and Bill and specialty pharmacy products is preferred.
- Documented history of strong sales performance, consistent top performer, in a challenging market space or product portfolio. Proven advanced sales skills, ability to communicate novel or complex products and process while keeping it simple and overcoming customer concerns, advancing the sale and gaining new business. Strong team player mentality and a successful history of working as an individual contributor within a collaborative environment.
- Strong business acumen: individual accountability and ownership of sales geography with the ability to multitask in a productive manner, solving problems and influencing without authority. Strong desire to “explore the unknown” and continuously enhance personal, professional, and account knowledge. Ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple accounts. Business savvy, analytical ability to analyze diverse sets of data using multiple tools and define account/program strategies that drive.
- Strong planning and organization skills. Strong presentation and facilitation skills. Proven ability to learn procedural, technical, and clinical information quickly. Ability to understand, articulate, and routinely present complex scientific information to a variety of audiences. Strong problem resolution skills.
- Influences others and is viewed as a credible and respected role model and resource among peers. Builds collaborative partnerships with colleagues and cross functional team. Leads by example; Consistently displays positive behaviors and peer coaching through changing and challenging environments. Ability to fully cover the assigned geography.
- Valid driver’s license: Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test and meet safe driving requirements.
- Ability to travel adequately to cover territory, as well as overnight attendance at scheduled training events and sales meetings.
- Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment.
- An essential requirement of your position is to satisfy all applicable health care industry representative (HCIR) credentialing requirements to gain and maintain entry into facilities and organizations that are in your assigned territory. You must also be in good standing and/or eligible to obtain these credentials.
- These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases, fingerprinting and specific licenses required by individual state or cities. Please remember that you are solely responsible for ensuring that you satisfy all HCIR credentialing requirements and for any associated liability for failing to do so. AbbVie has resources available to you to help answer questions you may have.
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 short-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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Which biotech and pharma companies sponsor F-1 OPT visas in Colorado?
Colorado employers that have historically hired F-1 OPT workers in biotech and pharma include Charles River Laboratories, Haemonetics, and biopharma operations based in the Denver-Boulder corridor. Larger employers with Colorado presences, such as DaVita and MilliporeSigma, also hire OPT candidates in lab, regulatory, and clinical roles. OPT authorization is employer-facilitated, so hiring decisions vary by company and role.
Which cities in Colorado have the most biotech and pharma F-1 OPT sponsorship jobs?
Boulder and Denver together account for the majority of biotech and pharma hiring in Colorado. Boulder has a dense concentration of life sciences startups and research-driven companies, particularly around the University of Colorado campus. Denver and its surrounding Tech Center suburbs offer more corporate pharma and medical device roles. Fort Collins also has a smaller but active biotech cluster tied to Colorado State University research programs.
How do I find biotech & pharma F-1 OPT sponsorship jobs in Colorado?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically by visa type and industry, making it straightforward to browse biotech and pharma roles in Colorado that are open to F-1 OPT candidates. Rather than manually screening hundreds of postings, you can search directly for positions where employers have indicated willingness to work with OPT authorization, saving significant time during a period when your work authorization timeline matters.
What types of biotech and pharma roles typically qualify for F-1 OPT sponsorship in Colorado?
F-1 OPT requires that your role directly relate to your field of study, so qualifying positions in biotech and pharma typically include research associate, analytical chemist, regulatory affairs specialist, clinical data analyst, bioinformatics scientist, and quality assurance roles. Positions requiring degrees in biology, biochemistry, chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, or biomedical engineering generally align well. Your Designated School Official can confirm whether a specific role meets the connection-to-major requirement.
Are there any Colorado-specific considerations for F-1 OPT candidates in biotech and pharma?
Colorado's biotech sector has a higher proportion of early-stage and Series A companies compared to established pharma hubs like New Jersey or Massachusetts. Smaller companies may be less familiar with OPT paperwork requirements, so it is worth confirming early in the interview process that an employer is prepared to work with your authorization. Colorado also borders several research universities, which means some employers are accustomed to hiring recent graduates on OPT through established university partnership pipelines.