Region BHR Director
Company Description
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 . Follow @abbvie on X , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , LinkedIn and Tik Tok .
Job Description
Job Purpose
Trusted partner to regional VP(s) 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. Leveraging 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:
- Serve as the primary strategic HR partner to the regional VP(s), developing HR strategies, needs assessments and resulting people solutions to address gaps within the region.
- Provide consultation to regional VP on organization development, design and effectiveness to ensure optimal performance.
- Partner with regional VP and Site leaders to examine future skill capabilities and partner with TA & TD to ensure future skills , capabilities and leadership are sourced and developed.
- Responsible for ensuring the effective “delivery” of all HR programs , restructures (RIFs) and optimization programs within the region.
- Effective management of communication and change management plans ensuring labor analysis, IR/ER, legal review are reflected during implementation stages.
- Drive the Regional talent strategy, identifying gaps and building robust solutions to attract, develop and retain key diverse talent within the region.
- Create innovative solutions to support the development of Site Directors and Key feeder pool talent in the region to ensure robust succession planning for the region. Ensure annual delivery against development plans.
- Drive alignment and delivery of operations HR strategy within the region by partnering with both country and Site BHR partners. Aid in the development of our site BHR talent with coaching and guidance.
- Partner with EED&I lead, Reps and regional VP to drive the EED&I strategy across the region.
- Establish, build and maintain strong relationships with key HR partners from all Practice Areas and Service Centres 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.
- Interface closely with all cross functional HR Teams on implementation & change management plans within the region.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree
- 12+ 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
- Supervisory, leadership experience
Additional Information
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 postingbased 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 orless 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.
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 paidand 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 and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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