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Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
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Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 177 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
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The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
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No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area.
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What Abbvie US LLC paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR, MHI” (Medical and Health Services Managers) in MA: $223k–$223k, median $223k.
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- Employer is on a government sponsor record
- The US Department of Labor certified 177 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- No salary bar for this route
- H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Abbvie US LLC paid sponsored hires in similar roles
- 1 certified filing for “SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR, MHI” (Medical and Health Services Managers) in MA: $223k–$223k, median $223k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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About the role
The Field Director, MSL (FD) plans, directs, coordinates and supports the activities of the Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs) within a designated geographic region to achieve scientific and business objectives within a therapeutic area of U.S. Medical Affairs. This includes, but is not limited to, coaching and mentoring for a designated number of medical level professionals (MSLs) in a therapeutic region. The FD reports to a therapeutic Field Medical Lead and works cross-functionally within U.S. Medical Affairs to identify, develop, implement, and monitor MSL strategies and tactics. Duties include strategic planning, financial management, personnel management, performance management process, regional awareness and expertise, data analysis, generation of metrics, material management, professional development, training, support, and execution of organizational goals and objectives.
Territory includes: AK, HI, WA, OR, CA, NV, MT, ID, UT, AZ, WY, CO, NM, OK, and North TX
Position must be based from within the territory, ideally near an airport, and with the ability to travel roughly 40% of the time.
Responsibilities:
• People Leadership and Development: Recruitment and retention of key talent for AbbVie. Builds an organization reflecting a diverse and inclusive workforce through identification of team capability gaps and independent strengths. Establishes a productive work environment by creating trust and respect within the group and establishes self as a business partner. Consistently model “One-AbbVie” and AbbVie Ways of Working Leadership behaviors.
• People Leadership and Development: Provide coaching, mentoring and guidance that is consistent and timely to MSLs regarding their individual performance and progress, including annual performance reviews, growth and succession planning, and real time field reports based upon regular field travel combined with data analysis. Addresses performance issues decisively and appropriately in accordance with AbbVie’s guidelines and Performance Excellence process.
• People Leadership and Development: Ultimate responsibility for scientific knowledge of self/team and oversight of MSL territory plans. Maintains clinical knowledge of designated therapeutic area and broad market knowledge of the region, including current treatment strategies, current and pending competitors, new therapeutic developments, payor dynamics, and other market issues/trends as it pertains to specific medical business interests.
• Regional Execution of Field-Medical Strategy: Maintain deep understanding of therapeutic strategy and interpretation of analytics to inform and maximize MSL Core Capabilities. Accountable for the direction and execution of MSL’s regional goals/objectives and territory plans. Evaluate appropriate tools and analytics to ensure optimal trial performance through investigator engagement and excellence in collaboration and coordination with clinical operations within the geographic region.
• Regional Execution of Field-Medical Strategy: Maximizes In-Field Team Effectiveness. Ensure that MSL team members maintain adequate communications and interaction with the field sales organization, when appropriate and according to compliance and regulatory guidelines. Ensure cross-functional ways of working with field-medical partners in Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Medical Value and Access, Site Management and Monitoring teams.
• Regional Execution of Field-Medical Strategy: Assists leadership with business/clinical strategy and tactical plan development, tactical plan implementation, impact goal achievement, and quantification of results at the field level. Accountable for and have decision-making responsibility for deploying regional resources to support franchise and business initiatives and
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