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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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Thank you for considering a future opportunity with our company! We are not currently hiring for this specific role, but we would love to connect with talented individuals who are interested in potential future positions. By joining our talent pipeline, you will be the first to be notified when suitable opportunities arise. 

In this talent pipeline requisition, we are not actively recruiting for this position at the moment. However, we are building a network of exceptional individuals who possess the skills and experience required for future openings. By submitting your application to this requisition, you will be added to our talent pipeline and may be invited for an exploratory conversation with someone from our Talent Acquisition team to be considered for future opportunities. 

About the Role:

You will be a trusted partner helping to shape our culture, support our business strategies, and delivering the talent and capabilities necessary to make a remarkable impact on AbbVie and patients around the world. To meet forecasted business growth and to better support our growing strategic plans, AbbVie is seeking to proactively connect with dynamic and highly experienced HR professionals.

As an Associate Director, Business HR, you will understand the business strategy and partner with business leaders in an assigned function to build and implement people strategies and tactics to support the business plans and achievements of both short-term and long-term strategic objectives. This is a tremendous opportunity to work with leaders in a fast-paced and dynamic environment to have a direct impact on our global business and the patients that we serve.

At AbbVie, we seek to fully develop our employees’ skills so that we can demonstrate our collective diversity of opinions, cultures, and experiences in all that we do. You will leverage best-in-class HR practices to continually construct, deliver and support programs that establish AbbVie as an employer of choice while empowering all employees at all levels of the organization.

This position will follow a hybrid schedule of 3 days/week onsite from our North Chicago headquarters.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary strategic partner to the business. Assist or lead the creation and implementation of HR Strategies to meet organizational and business needs.
• Coach, consult, and influence the business leaders,  including senior leadership, regarding leadership development, succession planning, and talent management. Engage and Influence business leaders though strong relationship-building skills and strategic insights.
• Develop and implement strategies to attract, develop and retain talent that meets current and future business needs. This includes identifying and cultivating new capabilities required for future success. Lead talent development and succession planning efforts.
• Ensure the effective delivery of all HR programs and service, and be responsible for HR results in the business, including client satisfaction, HR effectiveness, and associated financial results.
• Establish, build, and maintain strong relationships with key HR partners from all Centers of Excellence and Service Centers to ensure HR elements are successfully coordinated to meet business needs; include relationship management, leadership, HR roles & responsibilities, and service delivery commitments.
• Provides consultation on and leads organization design and effectiveness / structure issues to ensure optimal performance.
• Drive people manager development to create clarity and consistency of expectations, accountability, and enriched manager/employee experiences. Partner with people leaders to shape a culture of high employee engagement, high performance, diversity and inclusion.
• Facilitate, implement, and model change. Develop and deliver effective communication strategies that align with organizational priorities and support business objectives.
• Champion AbbVie Ways We Work with Business by modeling, educating, and coaching on these behaviors.
• Prioritize critical projects based on business needs and available resources
• Identify trends and new approaches to business processes that should be both incremental and ahead of the curve.
• Develop proposals and recommendations to resolve strategically important issues with strategic approach to problem-solving on HR issues (enterprise mindset, connecting the dots, thinking ahead)
• Leads large scale, strategic projects and initiative with multi-year impact, capable of creating transformational change in a matrix environment

• Bachelor's degree
• 8+ years of relevant HR experience
• Knowledge of regulations and standards affecting the business; strong business acumen
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills in a complex and demanding environment
• Project management or business experience
• Experience in organizational development, design, and effectiveness
• Experience supporting a global business and partnering with internationally-based business leaders and HR colleagues
• Strategic thinking with proven experience in leading multiple programs and initiatives, with the ability to prioritize
• Significant breadth of understanding of functional/ CoE HR roles and responsibilities and their impact on the business
• Experience interacting with and presenting to senior management. Ability to engage employees at all levels

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.

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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