Biotech & Pharma Jobs in Pennsylvania with E-3 Sponsorship
Pennsylvania's biotech and pharma sector is one of the largest on the East Coast, anchored by companies like GSK, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson in the Philadelphia suburbs, plus a growing cluster of life sciences firms in the Pittsburgh area. Australian professionals pursuing E-3 visa sponsorship will find consistent demand for research, clinical, regulatory, and manufacturing roles across the state.
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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.
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Act as Geography “Quarterback”: Serve as the primary champion for the assigned region, setting direction for AbbVie’s market access objectives. Provide high-level oversight of regional activities and act as the principal liaison for top-tier customers, ensuring alignment between regional strategy and organizational goals.
- Strategy Execution & Influence Mapping: Develop and implement targeted local market access strategies, creating and utilizing influence maps to identify influential customers in access (e.g., PBMs, employers, payers, IDNs), evaluate emerging channels and players (e.g., health systems, aggregators, VMFs), and tailor engagement plans to optimize market access for key brands.
- Contracting & Negotiation: Collaborate and support Area Access Director in planning and pull through of direct Area customer contracts, ensuring compliance with AbbVie’s Area Market Access (MAx) strategy and goals.
- Ongoing Customer Management & Issue Resolution: Maintain strong relationships with existing customers, managing day-to-day engagements and proactively identifying and resolving issues. Ensure timely pull-through of solutions and keep Area Directors informed of critical developments or escalations.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate closely with internal stakeholders (e.g., Centers of Excellence, Area Directors, Area Strategists, FRMs, MOSLs, Patient Support Services) to share insights, address ad-hoc challenges, and streamline pull-through efforts for seamless customer experiences.
- Business Growth & Innovation: Identify new opportunities within the region, recommending driving initiatives to expand access, deepen customer relationships, and promote AbbVie’s portfolio. Stay informed of industry trends and competitor activity to adapt strategies as needed.
- Performance Accountability: Monitor and report on key performance indicators, ensuring regional objectives are met or exceeded. Leverage data analytics (e.g., MABI) to assess contract effectiveness, inform future initiatives, and continuously refine overall performance and pull-through.
Significant Work Activities:
- Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8-hour day)
- Must be located within region, and ideally near a large airport
- Required travel to on-site customer locations within the region.
- Required travel 3-4 times to AbbVie's Chicago Headquarters
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Life Sciences, or a related field
- 5+ years sales management (District Manager or Regional Manager preferred)
- Account management and/or marketing experience in a healthcare or related business
- 2+ years experience in account management within Group Practice/Payor/Institutional environment strongly preferred.
- Proven track record of operating effectively in a large, complex geography and influencing diverse stakeholders to achieve results.
- Proven capability in contract negotiation, stakeholder engagement, and driving commercial results.
- Demonstrated ability to act as a primary point of contact, leveraging strong communication, collaboration, and coordination skills to effectively manage cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
- Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment
- Valid driver’s license: Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test and meet safe driving requirements.
- 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 to answer questions you may have regarding your responsibilities.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree (MBA, MPH, etc.)
- In-depth knowledge of regional payer landscapes, healthcare policies, and key customer types (IDNs, VISNs, Employers).
- Proficiency in data analytics and experience utilizing tools or platforms to inform strategy and decision-making.
- Positive, solutions-oriented attitude with a track record of managing complexity in a dynamic environment.
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.
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Act as Geography “Quarterback”: Serve as the primary champion for the assigned region, setting direction for AbbVie’s market access objectives. Provide high-level oversight of regional activities and act as the principal liaison for top-tier customers, ensuring alignment between regional strategy and organizational goals.
- Strategy Execution & Influence Mapping: Develop and implement targeted local market access strategies, creating and utilizing influence maps to identify influential customers in access (e.g., PBMs, employers, payers, IDNs), evaluate emerging channels and players (e.g., health systems, aggregators, VMFs), and tailor engagement plans to optimize market access for key brands.
- Contracting & Negotiation: Collaborate and support Area Access Director in planning and pull through of direct Area customer contracts, ensuring compliance with AbbVie’s Area Market Access (MAx) strategy and goals.
- Ongoing Customer Management & Issue Resolution: Maintain strong relationships with existing customers, managing day-to-day engagements and proactively identifying and resolving issues. Ensure timely pull-through of solutions and keep Area Directors informed of critical developments or escalations.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate closely with internal stakeholders (e.g., Centers of Excellence, Area Directors, Area Strategists, FRMs, MOSLs, Patient Support Services) to share insights, address ad-hoc challenges, and streamline pull-through efforts for seamless customer experiences.
- Business Growth & Innovation: Identify new opportunities within the region, recommending driving initiatives to expand access, deepen customer relationships, and promote AbbVie’s portfolio. Stay informed of industry trends and competitor activity to adapt strategies as needed.
- Performance Accountability: Monitor and report on key performance indicators, ensuring regional objectives are met or exceeded. Leverage data analytics (e.g., MABI) to assess contract effectiveness, inform future initiatives, and continuously refine overall performance and pull-through.
Significant Work Activities:
- Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8-hour day)
- Must be located within region, and ideally near a large airport
- Required travel to on-site customer locations within the region.
- Required travel 3-4 times to AbbVie's Chicago Headquarters
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Life Sciences, or a related field
- 5+ years sales management (District Manager or Regional Manager preferred)
- Account management and/or marketing experience in a healthcare or related business
- 2+ years experience in account management within Group Practice/Payor/Institutional environment strongly preferred.
- Proven track record of operating effectively in a large, complex geography and influencing diverse stakeholders to achieve results.
- Proven capability in contract negotiation, stakeholder engagement, and driving commercial results.
- Demonstrated ability to act as a primary point of contact, leveraging strong communication, collaboration, and coordination skills to effectively manage cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
- Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment
- Valid driver’s license: Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test and meet safe driving requirements.
- 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 to answer questions you may have regarding your responsibilities.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree (MBA, MPH, etc.)
- In-depth knowledge of regional payer landscapes, healthcare policies, and key customer types (IDNs, VISNs, Employers).
- Proficiency in data analytics and experience utilizing tools or platforms to inform strategy and decision-making.
- Positive, solutions-oriented attitude with a track record of managing complexity in a dynamic environment.
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 & pharma companies sponsor E-3 visas in Pennsylvania?
Several major employers in Pennsylvania have a documented history of sponsoring work visas for specialty occupation roles. GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) and Merck both have significant operations in the Philadelphia suburbs, particularly in Upper Gwynedd and West Point. Johnson & Johnson's Janssen division operates in Horsham. Beyond these large firms, contract research organizations and mid-size biotech companies across the Greater Philadelphia area also file Labor Condition Applications for qualifying positions.
Which cities in Pennsylvania have the most biotech & pharma E-3 sponsorship jobs?
The Greater Philadelphia region, including suburban communities in Montgomery and Chester counties, is by far the most concentrated area for biotech and pharma employment in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia itself hosts academic medical research institutions like the University of Pennsylvania and Jefferson Health. Pittsburgh has a smaller but growing life sciences presence tied to Carnegie Mellon University and UPMC. Most E-3 sponsorship activity is concentrated in and around Philadelphia.
What types of biotech & pharma roles typically qualify for E-3 sponsorship?
E-3 sponsorship applies to specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field. In biotech and pharma, roles that commonly meet this standard include clinical research associates, regulatory affairs specialists, biostatisticians, research scientists, formulation chemists, pharmacovigilance analysts, and bioinformatics specialists. The key requirement is that the position demands theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge, and your degree must align with the role.
How do I find biotech & pharma E-3 sponsorship jobs in Pennsylvania?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. You can filter by E-3 visa type and the biotech and pharma industry to surface Pennsylvania employers actively listing roles open to E-3 sponsorship candidates. This removes the guesswork of identifying which companies are willing to sponsor, which is one of the most time-consuming parts of the job search for Australian professionals. Migrate Mate's listings are updated regularly to reflect current hiring activity across Pennsylvania's life sciences sector.
Are there any Pennsylvania-specific considerations for E-3 sponsorship in biotech & pharma?
Pennsylvania does not impose state-level visa sponsorship requirements beyond standard federal E-3 rules, but the state's concentration of large pharmaceutical employers means Labor Condition Application filings are common and HR teams at major firms are often familiar with the E-3 process. Roles tied to federally regulated drug development, clinical trials, or FDA submission work tend to have clearer degree-to-role alignment, which strengthens the specialty occupation case that underpins every E-3 petition.
What is the prevailing wage for E-3 biotech & pharma jobs in Pennsylvania?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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