Job Description

The Sr Specialist, BHR will be a trusted partner 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.

They 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 Sr Specialist, BHR will support a specific function of the business.

Responsibilities

Serve as a strategic partner to the business, developing HR strategies, needs assessments and resulting HR solutions. Have credibility with Management to maximize successful outcomes. Assist or lead proposals and recommendations to resolve strategically important issues affecting a business segment. Prioritize projects based on business need and available resources.

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 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.

Manage and leverage human and financial resources within scope of delivered project services while supporting a segment of the business. Facilitate and implement change. Ensure that day-to-day activities are moving forward. Manage delivery of HR services across a segment of the business.

Ensure appropriate amount of resource planning is accounted for by the Practice and Service Centers to support the needs of the respective business segment. Responsible for managing business needs of leadership team(s). Know the Business.

Depth of knowledge of critical success factors and challenges for a business/functional segment and its role in the larger AbbVie business models. Must be able to think creatively across a business segment(s) as well as into the respective organizations.

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.

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.

Assist in the diagnosis, development and delivery of HR strategies, programs and services that influence and drive the needs of the respective business. Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and Procedures.