Director, Organizational Effectiveness

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.

As the Director, Organizational Excellence, you will partner with leaders and teams to drive organizational effectiveness efforts throughout AbbVie.  These efforts will increase performance in our quickly evolving business. 

Critical responsibilities include consulting on, designing and delivering solutions in the areas of organization design, strategy, team effectiveness, culture, and change leadership.  Through this work, experience and expertise, this role will contribute to increasing the organizational excellence capability at AbbVie. 

Core Responsibilities

• Leads enterprise and Function-level organizational effectiveness work that directly aligns with and supports the strategic roadmap, critical capabilities and top-level leader performance
• Consults with senior business and HR leaders across AbbVie to identify opportunities to increase leader and team performance related to organizational effectiveness; and subsequently recommends, designs and delivers solutions that produce performance outcomes
• Leads large scale organization design engagements; including scoping, environment and stakeholder assessment, strategy, and organization design (operating model, structure, management processes)
• Influences and guides HR partners and business leaders on areas of focus, prioritizing needs and best-fit solutions
• Partners with and advises organizational effectiveness colleagues on new areas of work and complex projects
• Facilitates live and virtual solutions, spanning discussions to multi-day engagements for in line and matrix teams
• Designs, develops, and executes new organizational effectiveness offerings and materials that enhance OrgEx capability at AbbVie
• Recommends strategies that fit the culture and integrate across the organization
• Coaches senior leaders on organizational effectiveness topics, such as readiness for and leading through change, culture, organization design efforts, and team leadership

Competencies

• Strategic planning
• Leads without authority
• Influences across all levels and geographies
• Effectively navigates the organization and is able to swiftly adjust to new information
• Business relationship management
• Executive presence and superb communicator
• Resource planning
• Business acumen
• Innovates in the face of new challenges
• Organizational effectiveness subject matter expertise
• Development and coaching skills
• Political savvy
• Action-orientation over theoretical reliance
• Prioritization

• Bachelor’s Degree, required; Master’s Degree, a plus

• Significant background/experience in:
  • Internal consulting
  • Influencing and collaborating globally and with all levels of leaders
  • Instructional design and facilitation
  • Organizational design principles and application
  • Team effectiveness principles, design, and facilitation
• A proven, strong performer with leadership experience in multiple aspects of the business
• Record of driving business performance in times of change
• Knows what it takes for leaders to develop others and create high performing teams

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. ​

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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