Director, EEDI Business Lead - job 1 of 5

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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Reporting to the Chief Equity Officer, the Equity, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion(EEDI) Director Business Lead will develop and deploy the EEDI educational and development strategy in support of the highest prioritized needs of the business. The EEDI Director, Business Lead serves a critical role with the intent to build inclusive leadership, teams, and diversity at AbbVie. This involves designing and delivering the strategy, development solutions and journeys that raise the performance of leaders and strengthen culture. This role will also support the strategy design and implementation of programs and projects to deliver expected business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategy development, implementation approaches and progress to deliver our EEDI priorities.
• Design, develop and communicate an innovative EEDI Enterprise Education Strategy to build inclusive leaders, key talent and employees, enhancing their ability to deliver expected business outcomes.
• Assess, improve and redeploy existing enterprise EEDI educational curriculum to provide impactful inclusive development solutions, differentiated by client populations, people leaders, key talent and employees.
• Design, develop or acquire new EEDI educational resources to provide impactful inclusive development solutions, differentiated by client populations, people leaders, key talent and employees.
• Engage and manage vendors to design and deliver best in class EEDI educational materials and experiences. This may include resources, workshops, cohort learning, enterprise solutions, etc.
• Consult with EEDI functional leads, BHR and functional stakeholders to scale and deliver enterprise and leadership solutions, messaging and narrative related to inclusive leader, key talent and employee development.
• Embed EEDI education within existing AbbVie frameworks and systems, as well as developing an operating model for sustainability of EEDI education.
  • • Ensure that EEDI education is globally applicable.
    • Research best practices in diversity initiatives
    • Translate external and internal trends into innovative, pioneering and creative practices.
• Partner with other Centers of Excellence to proactively contribute to the creation, development and roll-out of global programming to meet current and future state EEDI functional needs.
  • Develop EEDI Education team members to develop EEDI practitioner acumen, through consulting, design and implementation skills.
• Lead as an ambassador of the EEDI organization representing the services, support and resources available to the business and help manage the global reputation of the AbbVie organization as a whole.
• Lead as an ambassador of the EEDI organization representing the services, support and resources available to the business and help manage the global reputation of the AbbVie organization as a whole.

Key stakeholders to support/engage:

• Vice President- EEDI
• Business Human Resources- Vice President, Director and Managers
• Talent Acquisition
• Business leaders within organizational alignment- Executive Vice President, Senior Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents and Directors 

Hybrid Work Model- 3 day onsite/2 days remote

Role will be based in Lake County, IL

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. Advanced degree or EEDI Certification preferred.
• • 10 years+ of experience in diversity, equity and inclusion.
  • 5 years+ experience managing teams
  • 12 years + HR/legal/compliance experience managing sensitive data
   
• • Broad multi-stakeholder experience.
  • Experience working in mid-to-large global and matrix organizations in a complex work environment
• • Demonstrated commitment to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment
  • Proven track record of leading and implementing large-scale programs and projects.
• High organization and detail orientation with a successful track record of executing initiatives from start to finish
• • Ability to influence people without direct authority to achieve solutions.
  • Effectively use data to tell a story or create a narrative for change.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills plus interpersonal and presentation skills to drive results.
• Manages equitably and inclusively for all AbbVie employees regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability status and more
• Acts with authority in decision-making situations and takes on decision-making roles amidst uncertainty when necessary
• Harnesses the collective problem-solving powers of diverse, matrixed teams to achieve AbbVie organizational goals

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.​ Salary: $156,000 - $296,500

• 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. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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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. ​

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