Abbott Laboratories
Regulatory Affairs Manager – Vascular (on-site)
United States - California - Santa Clara · Mid
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$6,931 more — $120,931 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $120,931 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Managers, All Other" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Managers, All Other (11-9199) · Bakersfield-Delano, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life.
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
Responsibilities
- Develop new regulatory policies, processes and SOPs and train key staff on them. Evaluate regulatory risks of division policies, processes, procedures.
- Support pre and post approval clinical strategy and submission activities
- Anticipate regulatory obstacles and emerging issues throughout the product lifecycle and develop solutions with other members of regulatory and related teams
- Execute and manage technical and scientific regulatory activities. Must function independently as a decisionmaker on regulatory issues and must assure that deadlines are met
Requirements
- Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing, prepare, and negotiate both internally and externally with diverse audiences.
- The candidate will combine knowledge of scientific, regulatory, and business issues to enable products, including combination products, that are developed, manufactured or distributed to meet required legislation.
Nice to have
- Master's or Ph.D. in a technical area
- Certification is a plus (such as RAC from the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society.)
- Previous experience with US (e.g. PMA, PMA/S, IDE, 510(k), etc.), CE (EU MDR) and international submissions
- Ability to define regulatory strategy.
- Able to follow scientific arguments, identify regulatory scientific data needs and solve regulatory issues.
- Experience with post-approval manufacturing and design changes
- Ability to work effectively on cross-functional teams
- Strong attention to detail
Compensation
- The base pay for this position is
Benefits
- Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life.
- Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
Company info
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists
Equal opportunity
- Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
- EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf
- EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf
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