Director, Organizational Culture
About The Position
The Director, Organizational Culture leads the evolution of AbbVie’s culture transformation agenda. The role shapes, amplifies, and sustains a culture that enables meta-AbbVie, accelerates execution of the business strategy, and strengthens organizational performance. It is accountable for embedding culture into enterprise operations, decision-making, leadership development, talent deployment, performance rewards, collaboration, innovation, and results. The Director translates AbbVie’s cultural aspirations into practical expectations, mechanisms, and measures across business functions and geographies. Serving as an architect and catalyst for enterprise-wide transformation, the Director partners with senior business and HR leaders to integrate culture into operating models, organizational processes, leadership behaviors, performance measures, ways of working, strategic transformation, and employee experience. The role manages an integrated Culture function, including Organizational Research, connecting employee listening, research, external trends, and workforce insights to culture priorities and enterprise action. The Director defines and stewards the enterprise culture strategy, creates a multi-year amplification roadmap, establishes governance and accountability, and partners with functions to integrate culture into business practices and performance. The role also connects culture with meta-AbbVie, talent, leadership, organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, employee listening, and AI-enabled work. As a trusted advisor to the CHRO and enterprise executives, the Director aligns leaders on required cultural shifts, behaviors, trade-offs, and accountabilities and equips them to put priorities into action.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 15 or more years of progressive leadership experience across culture transformation, organizational effectiveness, management consulting, talent strategy, enterprise transformation, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated experience advising executive leadership teams and leading complex, enterprise-wide transformation.
- Proven ability to integrate culture strategy with business priorities, organizational systems, leadership expectations, and operational execution.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and enterprise portfolios across functions and geographies.
- Enterprise and systems thinking, connecting culture to strategy, talent, organization, and business performance.
- Exceptional executive presence, credibility, facilitation, storytelling, and influence across levels, functions, and geographies.
- Consulting-caliber problem solving, including diagnosing complex organizational issues and translating ambiguity into focused action.
- Deep expertise in culture transformation, organizational effectiveness, behavioral change, employee listening, leadership effectiveness, and large-scale change.
- Strong business acumen and an outcome-oriented approach to value creation in a complex, global, regulated environment.
- Analytical rigor and comfort using qualitative and quantitative evidence to shape executive decisions.
- Political savvy, courage, learning agility, pragmatism, and the ability to lead without authority.
- Strong people leadership, talent development, resource planning, and cross-functional team leadership.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree in business, organizational psychology, organizational behavior, human resources, sociology, or a related field.
- Biopharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, or other highly regulated global industry experience.
- Management consulting, external thought leadership, industry consortium, benchmarking, or academic partnership experience.
Responsibilities
- Define and continuously evolve AbbVie’s enterprise culture strategy as an enabler of meta-AbbVie, the business strategy, and HR and talent strategy.
- Serve as executive steward of AbbVie’s culture, ensuring priorities are clear, visible, differentiated, measurable, and connected to enterprise outcomes.
- Create and execute a multi-year culture amplification roadmap that activates culture through leadership, organizational systems, business practices, and employee experiences.
- Protect distinctive and valuable aspects of AbbVie’s culture while evolving behaviors and ways of working for the future.
- Establish governance, decision rights, operating rhythms, and accountability mechanisms for the enterprise culture agenda.
- Partner with business functions to translate enterprise culture priorities into relevant functional and local actions while maintaining a coherent enterprise direction.
- Identify and influence operational levers that reinforce culture, including processes, methodologies, incentives, measures, decision practices, role modeling, and resource allocation.
- Build mechanisms connecting culture to business performance, innovation, organizational effectiveness, employee experience, and strategy execution.
- Advise transformation leaders on the mindsets, behaviors, capabilities, and adoption conditions required for sustainable change.
- Connect culture with meta-AbbVie, talent, leadership, organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, employee listening, and AI-enabled work.
- Partner with Talent, Leadership Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Workforce Planning, and AI teams to embed culture across the talent lifecycle and future of work.
- Ensure leadership expectations, succession strategies, capability building, talent investments, performance systems, and employee experiences reinforce AbbVie’s desired culture.
- Use culture to accelerate adoption of strategic enterprise priorities, new capabilities, digital enablement, and responsible AI integration.
- Build future-of-work readiness by fostering adaptability, continuous learning, innovation, enterprise collaboration, inclusion, and accountability.
- Advise the CHRO, senior HR leaders, and enterprise executives on culture, transformation, leadership effectiveness, and organizational performance.
- Align senior leaders around the cultural shifts, leadership behaviors, trade-offs, and accountabilities needed to deliver AbbVie’s priorities.
- Facilitate executive dialogue and decisions on complex culture and organizational transformation challenges.
- Equip leaders to translate enterprise culture priorities into meaningful actions for their organizations and teams.
- Represent AbbVie’s culture agenda internally and, where appropriate, through external forums and thought leadership.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams and enterprise portfolios across functions and geographies.
Benefits
- Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and sick leave.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for eligible employees.
- 401(k) for eligible employees.
- Eligibility to participate in long-term incentive programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
