Director, Organizational Culture

AbbVie•North Chicago, IL

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 business strategy execution, 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 functions and geographies. 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 leads an integrated Culture function, including Organizational Research, connecting employee listening, organizational research, external trends, and workforce insights to culture priorities and enterprise action.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required.
At least 15 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.
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 and ability to diagnose complex organizational issues and turn 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 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 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, business strategy, and HR and talent strategy.
Steward AbbVie’s culture by 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 the behaviors and ways of working needed 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 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 needed for sustainable change.
Position culture as a connective enterprise capability across meta-AbbVie, talent, leadership, organization 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 enterprise priorities, new capabilities, digital enablement, and responsible AI integration.
Build readiness for future work by fostering adaptability, continuous learning, innovation, enterprise collaboration, inclusion, and accountability.
Serve as a trusted advisor to the CHRO, senior HR leaders, and enterprise executives on culture, transformation, leadership effectiveness, and organizational performance.
Align senior leaders on 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.