Purpose:

The Associate Director, Business Human Resources (BHR) is a strategic and 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. 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.        

The BTS (Business Technology Solutions) organization continues to evolve and focus heavily on the development of its most critical assets, it’s people. As such, the organization is expanding the HR team to enable the necessary resources and support to drive the global HR strategy and ensure the continued success of the business. We are seeking a passionate leader to come help us define and implement the HR strategy through coaching, leadership development, success planning, talent management and more.

Responsibilities:

Main areas of responsibilities:

• Human Resources Partner to 2 Vice Presidents of our Business Technology Solutions (IT) organization.
• Serve as the primary strategic partner to business leaders and their global organizations, developing HR strategies, needs assessments and resulting HR solutions. Coach/mentor and consult senior leaders for leadership development, succession planning, and talent management.
• Responsible for ensuring the effective “delivery” of all HR programs and services.  Responsible for HR results in the business, including client satisfaction, HR effectiveness and associated financial results.
• Establishes, builds and maintains strong relationships with key HR partners from all HR 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 as a whole.
• Coordinate and implement HR strategies to meet organizational needs of a major segment of the business.
• Ensure actions and delivery of Practice and Service Centers align with overall HR strategy and meet the needs of the business.
• Develop proposals and recommendations to resolve strategically important issues affecting a major business segment.
• Manage and leverage human and financial resources within scope of delivered project services while supporting a major segment of the business. Responsible for managing business needs of multiple senior leadership teams. Know the Business
• Identification of trends and new approaches to business processes should be both incremental as well as “ahead of the curve”. Initiatives and changes to current business processes must have a clear linkage with other organizational efforts being proposed or already ongoing in the respective business.