Biotech & Pharma E-3 Sponsorship Jobs in Pennsylvania
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 territory includes Lancaster, PA, Harrisburg, PA, Reading, PA, Wilmington, DE, etc., candidates should live within the territory.
This individual will be responsible for developing and maintaining strategic business relationships with Oncology departments and practices consisting of interactions with Oncologists, Hematologists, Pharmacists, Nurses, Executive level personnel, Department heads and Managers, and various other support staff. Business relationships will be focused on increasing education on product benefits/risks consistent with approved label, developing new business, improving resource utilization, and growing sales and market share by achieving sales plan for the assigned Oncology product and indications.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- 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.
- Consistently partners with in-house and/or cross-franchise leaders, and collaborates with such partners to identify, design and/or adapt appropriate approaches and tactics demonstrating resources within geography.
- Delivers effective on-label technical and scientific presentations utilizing approved data, to appropriately highlight the benefits and risks of the product resulting in sales quota achievement.
- Serve as lead US Commercial contact with targeted accounts in assigned geography and collaborate with all AbbVie and any co-promotion Counterparts including Brand and Strategic Marketing, GPO team, Thought Leader Liaisons, MSLs, and contracted SPPs to provide excellent customer support for physicians to the benefit of their patients. Such support should include site support and addressing any potential customer issues.
- Build, implement, communicate and regularly update strategic and tactical business plans for targeted accounts. In collaboration with sales leadership and other appropriate AbbVie or Co-Promote partners, facilitate site physician/treatment team training on approved and safe use of AbbVie’s products. Monitor and report sales progress. Provide routine communications to all internal and external (as applicable) partners.
- Act as AbbVie key point of contact to each account. Respond to or direct customer to the appropriate service or point of contact for their questions or requests and actively follow-up. Take lead in coordinating and ensuring any needed or requested support is delivered in a timely manner and to the satisfaction of the account by the best person withing AbbVie or copromote partner.
- Attend and actively participate in local clinician boards, societies, 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.
- Remain current on all clinical, market, and payer developments, trends, and issues specific to oncology and disease areas.
- Complete all AbbVie required training and maintain adherence to all company policies and OEC/Legal procedures.
- Within assigned accounts and geography, seeks out important information and articulate implications to our business and to our customers’ business.
- Transfers knowledge to appropriate internal partners and integrate standard methodologies that have tangible value for customers and patients across assigned indications/brands to benefit the geography and AbbVie Oncology.
- Establishes and maintains a complete understanding of approved product label and disease state knowledge for impactful use with customers.
- Optimizes both external and internal data, resources, and tools to identify sales opportunities and program strategy for customers in assigned territories.
- With the approval of legal/OEC, actively participates in relevant organizational programs in local markets.
- Develops a strong command of available selling resources and tools; fully demonstrates those resources to support selling strategies and maximize impact.
- An essential requirement of the position is to 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.
Qualifications
Required:
- Business savvy, analytical ability to analyze diverse sets of data using multiple tools and define account/program strategies that drive business objectives
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of how to effectively meet customer needs in a complex environment through forward-thinking, innovative strategies that align with the company and customer objectives
- Demonstrated leadership skills; ability to lead without direct authority. Has experience with successfully developing teams on complex projects or challenges to achieve results
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Persistency and grit with strong track record of succeeding in a challenging environment
- 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.
Preferred:
- Oncology Sales experience or Oncology specific clinical experience
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Account Management experience in any industry
- Specialty Pharmacy experience
- Healthcare industry experience, especially working with patients or consulting healthcare companies
- MBA or other advanced degree
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
This territory includes Lancaster, PA, Harrisburg, PA, Reading, PA, Wilmington, DE, etc., candidates should live within the territory.
This individual will be responsible for developing and maintaining strategic business relationships with Oncology departments and practices consisting of interactions with Oncologists, Hematologists, Pharmacists, Nurses, Executive level personnel, Department heads and Managers, and various other support staff. Business relationships will be focused on increasing education on product benefits/risks consistent with approved label, developing new business, improving resource utilization, and growing sales and market share by achieving sales plan for the assigned Oncology product and indications.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- 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.
- Consistently partners with in-house and/or cross-franchise leaders, and collaborates with such partners to identify, design and/or adapt appropriate approaches and tactics demonstrating resources within geography.
- Delivers effective on-label technical and scientific presentations utilizing approved data, to appropriately highlight the benefits and risks of the product resulting in sales quota achievement.
- Serve as lead US Commercial contact with targeted accounts in assigned geography and collaborate with all AbbVie and any co-promotion Counterparts including Brand and Strategic Marketing, GPO team, Thought Leader Liaisons, MSLs, and contracted SPPs to provide excellent customer support for physicians to the benefit of their patients. Such support should include site support and addressing any potential customer issues.
- Build, implement, communicate and regularly update strategic and tactical business plans for targeted accounts. In collaboration with sales leadership and other appropriate AbbVie or Co-Promote partners, facilitate site physician/treatment team training on approved and safe use of AbbVie’s products. Monitor and report sales progress. Provide routine communications to all internal and external (as applicable) partners.
- Act as AbbVie key point of contact to each account. Respond to or direct customer to the appropriate service or point of contact for their questions or requests and actively follow-up. Take lead in coordinating and ensuring any needed or requested support is delivered in a timely manner and to the satisfaction of the account by the best person withing AbbVie or copromote partner.
- Attend and actively participate in local clinician boards, societies, 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.
- Remain current on all clinical, market, and payer developments, trends, and issues specific to oncology and disease areas.
- Complete all AbbVie required training and maintain adherence to all company policies and OEC/Legal procedures.
- Within assigned accounts and geography, seeks out important information and articulate implications to our business and to our customers’ business.
- Transfers knowledge to appropriate internal partners and integrate standard methodologies that have tangible value for customers and patients across assigned indications/brands to benefit the geography and AbbVie Oncology.
- Establishes and maintains a complete understanding of approved product label and disease state knowledge for impactful use with customers.
- Optimizes both external and internal data, resources, and tools to identify sales opportunities and program strategy for customers in assigned territories.
- With the approval of legal/OEC, actively participates in relevant organizational programs in local markets.
- Develops a strong command of available selling resources and tools; fully demonstrates those resources to support selling strategies and maximize impact.
- An essential requirement of the position is to 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.
Qualifications
Required:
- Business savvy, analytical ability to analyze diverse sets of data using multiple tools and define account/program strategies that drive business objectives
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of how to effectively meet customer needs in a complex environment through forward-thinking, innovative strategies that align with the company and customer objectives
- Demonstrated leadership skills; ability to lead without direct authority. Has experience with successfully developing teams on complex projects or challenges to achieve results
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Persistency and grit with strong track record of succeeding in a challenging environment
- 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.
Preferred:
- Oncology Sales experience or Oncology specific clinical experience
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Account Management experience in any industry
- Specialty Pharmacy experience
- Healthcare industry experience, especially working with patients or consulting healthcare companies
- MBA or other advanced degree
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
E-3 Biotech & Pharma Job Roles in Pennsylvania
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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 visa 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 application.
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.