Associate Director, Business Human Resources (Clinical Development Operations)

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.

The Associate Director, Business Human Resources (BHR) is a trusted partner to the organization, helping to shape our culture, support our business strategies and finding and developing the talent necessary to make a remarkable impact on AbbVie and patients around the world. The position will support the Clinical Development Operations team, specifically the Clinical Site Leadership organization, under AbbVie’s R&D organization. The person will influence and support business decisions and ensure the people strategy supports AbbVie’s overall business success in supporting our patients.

We seek to fully develop our employees’ skills so that we can leverage AbbVie’s 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.

Responsibilities:

• Business Human Resources Partner to 3 Vice Presidents as well as other business leaders within the same business unit.
• Serves as the primary strategic partner to the business, developing HR strategies, needs assessments and resulting HR solutions.
• Responsible for ensuring the effective “delivery” of all HR programs and services.
• Establishes, builds and maintains strong relationships with key HR partners from all Practice Areas and Service Centers to ensure elements of HR are successfully coordinated to meet business needs; includes relationship management, leadership, HR roles & responsibilities, and service delivery commitments.
• Be the ambassador of the HR organization to represent the services and resources available to the business and help manage the collective reputation of the HR organization.
• Develop proposals and recommendations to resolve strategically important issues affecting a major business segment.
• Manages and leverages human and financial resources within scope of delivered project services while supporting a major segment of the business.

• Bachelor’s Degree Required. Master’s Degree Preferred.
• 8+ years relevant experience required.
• Knowledge of regulations and standards affecting the business.
• Project management or business experience.
• Significant breadth of understanding of functional HR roles and responsibilities and impact on the business.
• Able to adapt to changing business dynamics and priorities
• Re-organizational experience strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting global organization is strongly preferred.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• 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 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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