Human Resources Manager - AbbVie

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. 

The Sr. HR Manager is a strategic and trusted partner to the organization, in talent development, finding talent, and shaping culture necessary to accomplish our business strategies to make a remarkable impact on patients around the world. They will serve as a strategic partner to the Waco, TX Manufacturing site. This role is responsible for leveraging best-in-class HR practices to continually construct, deliver, and support programs that establish AbbVie as an employer of choice. The role will be expected to develop HR strategies, assess needs, and resulting HR solutions. 

 
Note that this position is expected to sit onsite in Waco, TX  

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Serve as the primary strategic partner to the business leaders and their organization, developing HR strategies, needs assessments and resulting HR solutions. Coach/mentor and consult senior leaders for leadership development, succession planning, and talent management. 

• Ensuring the effective “delivery” of all HR programs and services. Responsible for HR results in the business, including client satisfaction, HR effectiveness and associated results. 

• Establish, build and maintain strong relationships with key HR partners from all areas to ensure elements of HR are successfully coordinated to meet business needs, including relationship management, leadership, HR roles/responsibilities, and service delivery commitments. 

• Partnering with people leaders to shape our culture of high employee engagement, high performance and, diversity and inclusion. 

• Leading HR solutions and initiatives to find and develop talent while leveraging AbbVie’s best in-class HR practices. Develops recommendations to address resource and skill needs. 

• Facilitating, implementing, and modeling change to address organization effectiveness and the evolution of service provided to patients. 

• Prioritizing critical projects based on business needs and available resources. Ensure that day-to-day activities are moving forward. 

• Championing AbbVie ways of working with leaders by modeling, educating, and coaching on these behaviors. 

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and Procedures. 

Success Factors: 

• Must be able to understand and utilize historical and broad organizational data when weighing business HR decisions and actions. 

• Able to understand all the options available and the potential impact of those options across the respective business units, as well as within the larger AbbVie business models. 

• Have credibility with Senior Management to maximize successful outcomes. 

• Must be able to think creatively across a wide breadth of business segment(s) as well as deep into the respective organizations. 

• Identification of trends and new approaches to business processes should be both incremental as well as “ahead of the curve”. 

• Ability to work and influence in a matrix environment. 

• Clear and courageous in conversations; able to influence and coach. Not afraid to have a difficult conversation regardless of level or title. 

• Bachelor’s degree. 

• Project management, change management or business experience. 

• Experience in conducting job evaluations, job and decision rights analysis and analyzing employee data to develop workforce strategy. 

• Significant breadth of experience in client area accountability; demonstrated expertise in achieving business results through people solutions. 

• Significant understanding of functional HR roles and responsibilities and impact on the business. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Master’s degree preferred, or equivalent. 

• Knowledge of regulations and standards affecting the business preferred. 

• Demonstrated understanding of organizational development activity preferred. 

Key AbbVie Competencies: 

• Builds strong relationships with peers and cross functionally with partners outside of team to enable higher performance. 

• Learns, fast, grasps the 'essence' and can change the course quickly where indicated. 

• Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo. 

• Creates a learning environment, open to suggestions and experimentation for improvement. 

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 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.