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F-1 OPT biotech and pharma sponsorship jobs in Ohio are concentrated around Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, where employers like Battelle, Cardinal Health, Procter and Gamble, and the Cleveland Clinic research network actively hire international talent. Ohio's life sciences sector spans drug development, medical devices, and contract research, offering OPT-eligible graduates strong opportunities across research, regulatory, and quality roles.
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Job reference: R-257092
Date posted: 07/24/2026
About the job:
The Regional Account Manager (RAM) position is within our Rare Hematology and Nephrology Franchise, a division of Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease and will focus on the launch of IgAN as a potential new indication. The RAM will be assigned a sales territory focused on academic centers, community hospital systems, physician clinics, infusion centers, and other strategic sites of care, focused on nephrology. This individual would be responsible for the growth and expansion of the IgAN indication while supporting appropriate assigned indication opportunities with key nephrology customers.
Why Join Us?
At Alexion, we’re united by a shared purpose: to transform the lives of people affected by rare diseases. In Neurology, that purpose is personal. We connect deeply with patients and their care teams, and we work together to deliver innovative therapies that make a real difference. Here, your work means more—more impact, more growth, and more connection.
What You’ll Do
As a Regional Account Manager – Rare Nephrology, you’ll build trusted relationships with healthcare professionals across your territory. You’ll represent Alexion’s nephrology indications, helping providers understand our therapies and how they support patients with rare nephrological conditions.
Territory Includes: Cincinnati, Middletown, Dayton, Springfield, OH. Must live within the geography.
You will:
- Consistently achieve or exceed sales objectives in assigned territory
- Create and maintain strategically targeted account-specific business plans that reflect an in-depth understanding of local market forces impacting product sales, diagnostic pathways, referral patterns, and treatment adoption.
- Develop and maintain strong, in-depth clinical, technical, and scientific knowledge across assigned indications, with emphasis on renal disease education and the needs of nephrology customers.
- Demonstrate the ability to educate on the clinical approach to relevant disease states, leading to successful differential diagnosis, appropriate testing, and timely treatment of focus patient populations.
- Build and maintain productive relationships with nephrologists and other key stakeholders in academic centers, community hospital systems, physician clinics, infusion centers, and related sites of care.
- Collaborate closely with internal cross-functional stakeholders, including peer RAM(s), TLL(s), SAL(s), MSL(s), FRM(s), PEM(s), Market Access, Diagnostics, and enterprise partners.
- Handle customer questions and objections in a way that is consistent with product indications and sales training methodology, including the ability to compliantly triage inquiries to the appropriate partner.
- Understand and demonstrate proper use of products to clinicians in hospital, clinic, and infusion center environments.
- Lead the implementation of a patient-centric partnership model that includes physicians, their staff, patients, clinics, hospitals, and relevant care partners.
- Effectively utilize CRM tools to manage territory priorities, track account engagement, document sales activities, and submit required reports accurately and on time; and adopt CRM AI-embedded tools to prioritize opportunities and optimize call execution
- Effectively use AI-driven insights for territory planning, HCP targeting, and pre-call strategy; translate analytics into focused customer engagement and account action plans
- Execute local promotional activities and programs for the assigned therapeutic areas.
- Provide a high level of product expertise and customer service to all accounts.
- Proactively interact with Alexion management to refine product and market initiatives based on field insights, access trends, and account needs.
- Perform work in alignment with and adhering to Alexion’s Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and Alexion policies and procedures.
What you bring:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 5 years pharmaceutical sales or equivalent experience (e.g., Biotech or Medical Device), or 5 years of experience in a medical setting.
- Proven, documented track record for delivering consistent, top-tier sales results in institutions, hospital systems, and/or complex specialty markets.
- Ability to work independently as well as interdependently in a team-oriented environment.
- Strong clinical acumen, account-based selling, analytical, and strategic skills to successfully develop accounts.
- Demonstrated ability to seek out and qualify leads, profile new accounts, and build durable relationships with relevant healthcare providers and office staff.
- Ability to gain consistent access and develop strong, professional relationships for scientific exchange and promotion with healthcare providers in community and academic settings.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills and strong organizational abilities.
- Must live in the geographic territory or live within 50 miles of the geographic territory border.
- Ability to travel within territory on a regular basis, which may include frequent overnight and weekend travel.
- Valid driver’s license and clean driving record.
- The duties of this role are generally conducted in a field environment. As is typical of a field-based role, employees must be able, with or without an accommodation, to travel by public transportation, automobile, train, or plane; work comfortably in a clinical setting; use a computer; engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; problem solve; engage in complex and non-linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; collaborate with others; and maintain general availability during standard business hours.
Preferred qualifications:
- Advanced or master’s degree.
- 5 years pharmaceutical sales or equivalent experience in specialty, rare disease, nephrology, or related markets.
- Sales experience in the orphan or ultra-orphan area.
- Bio/pharma, nephrology, renal disease, and/or hematology experience.
Date Posted
24-Jul-2026
Closing Date
10-Aug-2026
Our mission is to build an inclusive environment where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees. In furtherance of that mission, we welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their protected characteristics. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please complete the corresponding section in the application form.
Location: Cincinnati, United States
Job reference: R-257092
Date posted: 07/24/2026
About the job:
The Regional Account Manager (RAM) position is within our Rare Hematology and Nephrology Franchise, a division of Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease and will focus on the launch of IgAN as a potential new indication. The RAM will be assigned a sales territory focused on academic centers, community hospital systems, physician clinics, infusion centers, and other strategic sites of care, focused on nephrology. This individual would be responsible for the growth and expansion of the IgAN indication while supporting appropriate assigned indication opportunities with key nephrology customers.
Why Join Us?
At Alexion, we’re united by a shared purpose: to transform the lives of people affected by rare diseases. In Neurology, that purpose is personal. We connect deeply with patients and their care teams, and we work together to deliver innovative therapies that make a real difference. Here, your work means more—more impact, more growth, and more connection.
What You’ll Do
As a Regional Account Manager – Rare Nephrology, you’ll build trusted relationships with healthcare professionals across your territory. You’ll represent Alexion’s nephrology indications, helping providers understand our therapies and how they support patients with rare nephrological conditions.
Territory Includes: Cincinnati, Middletown, Dayton, Springfield, OH. Must live within the geography.
You will:
- Consistently achieve or exceed sales objectives in assigned territory
- Create and maintain strategically targeted account-specific business plans that reflect an in-depth understanding of local market forces impacting product sales, diagnostic pathways, referral patterns, and treatment adoption.
- Develop and maintain strong, in-depth clinical, technical, and scientific knowledge across assigned indications, with emphasis on renal disease education and the needs of nephrology customers.
- Demonstrate the ability to educate on the clinical approach to relevant disease states, leading to successful differential diagnosis, appropriate testing, and timely treatment of focus patient populations.
- Build and maintain productive relationships with nephrologists and other key stakeholders in academic centers, community hospital systems, physician clinics, infusion centers, and related sites of care.
- Collaborate closely with internal cross-functional stakeholders, including peer RAM(s), TLL(s), SAL(s), MSL(s), FRM(s), PEM(s), Market Access, Diagnostics, and enterprise partners.
- Handle customer questions and objections in a way that is consistent with product indications and sales training methodology, including the ability to compliantly triage inquiries to the appropriate partner.
- Understand and demonstrate proper use of products to clinicians in hospital, clinic, and infusion center environments.
- Lead the implementation of a patient-centric partnership model that includes physicians, their staff, patients, clinics, hospitals, and relevant care partners.
- Effectively utilize CRM tools to manage territory priorities, track account engagement, document sales activities, and submit required reports accurately and on time; and adopt CRM AI-embedded tools to prioritize opportunities and optimize call execution
- Effectively use AI-driven insights for territory planning, HCP targeting, and pre-call strategy; translate analytics into focused customer engagement and account action plans
- Execute local promotional activities and programs for the assigned therapeutic areas.
- Provide a high level of product expertise and customer service to all accounts.
- Proactively interact with Alexion management to refine product and market initiatives based on field insights, access trends, and account needs.
- Perform work in alignment with and adhering to Alexion’s Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and Alexion policies and procedures.
What you bring:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 5 years pharmaceutical sales or equivalent experience (e.g., Biotech or Medical Device), or 5 years of experience in a medical setting.
- Proven, documented track record for delivering consistent, top-tier sales results in institutions, hospital systems, and/or complex specialty markets.
- Ability to work independently as well as interdependently in a team-oriented environment.
- Strong clinical acumen, account-based selling, analytical, and strategic skills to successfully develop accounts.
- Demonstrated ability to seek out and qualify leads, profile new accounts, and build durable relationships with relevant healthcare providers and office staff.
- Ability to gain consistent access and develop strong, professional relationships for scientific exchange and promotion with healthcare providers in community and academic settings.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills and strong organizational abilities.
- Must live in the geographic territory or live within 50 miles of the geographic territory border.
- Ability to travel within territory on a regular basis, which may include frequent overnight and weekend travel.
- Valid driver’s license and clean driving record.
- The duties of this role are generally conducted in a field environment. As is typical of a field-based role, employees must be able, with or without an accommodation, to travel by public transportation, automobile, train, or plane; work comfortably in a clinical setting; use a computer; engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; problem solve; engage in complex and non-linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; collaborate with others; and maintain general availability during standard business hours.
Preferred qualifications:
- Advanced or master’s degree.
- 5 years pharmaceutical sales or equivalent experience in specialty, rare disease, nephrology, or related markets.
- Sales experience in the orphan or ultra-orphan area.
- Bio/pharma, nephrology, renal disease, and/or hematology experience.
Date Posted
24-Jul-2026
Closing Date
10-Aug-2026
Our mission is to build an inclusive environment where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees. In furtherance of that mission, we welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their protected characteristics. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please complete the corresponding section in the application form.
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Which biotech and pharma companies sponsor F-1 OPT visas in Ohio?
Ohio-based employers with documented histories of hiring F-1 OPT workers in life sciences include Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Cardinal Health, Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati, and Lubrizol. Contract research organizations operating in the state, such as Covance and Syneos Health, also appear in DOL disclosure data as OPT sponsors. Sponsorship availability varies by role, department, and headcount at any given time, so confirming with each employer directly is important.
Which cities in Ohio have the most biotech and pharma F-1 OPT sponsorship jobs?
Columbus is Ohio's largest concentration of life sciences employment, anchored by Battelle, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and a growing cluster of biotech startups. Cleveland follows closely, driven by Cleveland Clinic's research operations and Case Western Reserve University's commercialization ecosystem. Cincinnati hosts Procter and Gamble's health sciences division along with several pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities. All three metros have active OPT hiring activity, though Columbus tends to post the highest volume of entry-level research roles.
What types of biotech and pharma roles typically qualify for F-1 OPT sponsorship in Ohio?
Roles that commonly appear in OPT hiring data for Ohio's biotech and pharma sector include research associate, analytical chemist, regulatory affairs coordinator, quality assurance specialist, bioinformatics analyst, and clinical data associate. These positions generally require a bachelor's or advanced degree in biology, chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, or a related STEM field. OPT authorization must be directly related to your degree program, so the field of your degree needs to align with the role's core responsibilities.
How do I find biotech and pharma F-1 OPT sponsorship jobs in Ohio?
Migrate Mate lets you filter specifically for biotech and pharma employers in Ohio that have sponsored F-1 OPT workers, saving you from manually screening hundreds of postings. Because OPT sponsorship willingness is rarely advertised in job descriptions, using a platform built around verified sponsorship data is significantly more efficient. You can filter by city, role type, and industry on Migrate Mate to surface relevant Ohio openings and apply directly.
Are there any Ohio-specific considerations for F-1 OPT sponsorship in biotech and pharma?
Ohio has no state-level visa or work authorization requirements beyond federal F-1 OPT rules, but a few industry-specific factors matter. Many pharma manufacturing and quality roles require background checks or security clearances that can add processing time. Contract research organizations in Ohio frequently hire on project timelines, which may affect whether they can accommodate OPT's 12-month or 24-month STEM extension window. Verifying that your role and employer qualify for the STEM OPT extension before accepting an offer is worth confirming with your DSO.