Associate Director, Organizational Excellence

Company Description

Abb Vie'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 Abb Vie, please visit us at

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As the Associate Director, Organizational Excellence, you will partner with leaders and teams to prepare the organization for the future and increase performance of Abb Vie’s quickly evolving business. The primary focus of this role will be to consult on, design and deliver solutions in the areas of organization design, strategy, team effectiveness, culture and process optimization.

• Consult with leaders across Abb Vie globally and in all Functions to identify business needs and opportunities, given the environmental context and challenges expected in the future.
• Assess the root causes and deliver key insights to the organization that inform recommendations. Help leaders and their teams define the organizational strategy that articulates a clear direction and aligns them on one path to execution.
• Deliver holistic organizational approaches and solutions, recommending organizational design, team effectiveness, culture and process changes to accelerate business performance, ensuring alignment with strategy.
• Facilitate live and virtual solutions, spanning discussions to workshops for senior levels of in line and matrix teams.
• Leverage a deep familiarity and knowledge of Abb Vie’s culture to increase the likelihood of successful recommendation design and implementation.
• Advise, influence, and coach senior leaders and HR partners on prioritization of needs and critical conversations related to organizational effectiveness topics, such as readiness for and leading through change, culture, process, organization design efforts, and team leadership.
• Collaborate to create a data-driven culture within OE, identifying and analyzing data to provide an informed perspective on organizational issues.
• Participate in creating new tools and methodologies to improve our outcomes to stakeholders and clients.
• Expand the organizational capability across the BHRs and rest of the organization.

• Bachelor’s Degree, required;
  Master’s degree, a plus.
• At least 10 years of background/experience in:
  Internal or external consulting, Influencing and collaborating globally and with all levels of leaders, Instructional design, Facilitation, Process design and optimization, and Organizational effectiveness.
• 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:

• 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.

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.

Abb Vie 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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