Associate Director, HR Systems

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. 

Come to work each day with an inclusive and collaborative Business technology team! As an Associate Director, HR Systems in AbbVie Business Technology Solutions (BTS), you’ll have opportunities to contribute to the digital transformation of a leading biopharma company, helping to create solutions that impact patients and their communities for the better.

Partnering cross-functionally across Human Resources (HR) & BTS to manage the business strategy and goals in a way that you can help deliver technology solutions that help them work towards their objectives.   Expedite, manage and coordinate a multitude of interrelated IT project activities within the constraints of human and financial resources and changing priorities to ensure the successful completion of projects. Lead team of technical experts and portfolio managers who drive HR’s agenda and own various critical incidents and problems across eco system.

In this role, you'll be responsible for:

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
• Initiate and Plan IT Projects: Works with Strategic Business and Executive IT management to establish project goals and business case. Helps set strategic IT direction.
• Project Control: Assess the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect projects working with division or senior/executive management and sponsor to gain agreement for resolution. Measure performance to assure the project is progressing as compared to original plan and budget.
• Executing and Closing Projects: Leads project managers and teams in developing and executing a program plan ensuring that authorized resources are obtained to make certain that all activities are performed. Gather lessons learned and obtain final project approval from sponsor and stakeholders.
• Resource and Team Management: Coordinate resources to ensure program and business needs are addressed through proactive priority management with business leaders. Manages, motivates and mentor cross-functional and enterprise project teams.
• Quality Management: Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
• Work closely with stakeholders like Product Owners, Affiliates, Customer Excellence, and outsourced teams to understand challenges, and opportunities, to conceive scalable and efficient processes.
• Transform management of complex integrated platforms involving multiple technologies, stakeholders and suppliers while interfacing with key commercial HR leaders to enhance and advance global-scale applications.
• Establish criteria for measuring the success and efficiency of eco system operations and overseeing the implementation and ongoing assessment of these metrics.
• Provide thought leadership and contributing to the development of eco system operations strategies, roadmaps, and best practices.

Experiences that make you a strong candidate for this role: 

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree with 9 years’ experience; Master's Degree with 8 years’ experience; PhD with 3 years’ experience.
• 5+ years of proven experience in a leadership role within a global HR technology product management and operations, with demonstrated success in driving the strategic development and management of multiple products, including Workday.
• 3+ years of Workday experience.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate cross-functional teams.
• Strategic thinker with a results-oriented mindset, capable of driving initiatives from conception to execution.

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.​

• 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​

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. ​

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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