Associate Director, US Commercial Leadership Development

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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

The Associate Director, US Commercial Leadership Development reports to the Director of US Leadership Development with responsibility of directly supporting and partnering with business teams and commercial leadership.

The Associate Director is responsible for improving the performance of US Commercial leaders by assessing the development needs and areas of opportunity to drive leadership training initiatives. The AD plays a crucial role as subject matter expert in strategically identifying and establishing optimal development solutions to increase leader capabilities and support their respective businesses to enhance and drive performance in a rapidly changing marketplace.

The Associate Director must earn and maintain the trust of their stakeholders to coach them in fostering continued leader development. They will provide expertise and consultancy to therapeutic area Vice Presidents; General Managers; and functional leadership teams to assess viability and effectiveness of established development programs and future initiatives.

This hybrid role requires the ability to commute to our Irvine, CA office location at least 3 days per week.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creatively designing, planning, supervising, and implementing effective development methods aligned with the objectives, culture, and strategy of AbbVie that enhance performance and recognize key leader talent.
• Lead the curriculum and learning design and implementation of commercial enterprise programs and learning solutions including onboarding/transition support, executive coaching, assessment instruments, leader skill building and talent development for select groups of potential future, new and experienced leaders.
• Utilize a variety of adult learning strategies, technologies, and proven techniques to engage stakeholders in a cost-effective manner.
• Delivery of leadership programs encompassing, but not limited to: Korn Ferry programs, TalentSmarts EQ, Leading Teams, Coaching, Ways We Work/Culture, Leadership Enhancement Days (LED), Leadership Meetings, USLD enterprise-wide programs, and intact team leadership sessions.
• Identify, evaluate, and report long-term talent impact metrics in alignment with Corporate Talent functions on strategy objectives. Perform needs assessment, anticipate, and analyze business needs; identify potential talent gaps; ensure alignment of learning solutions with business goals.
• Understand and adhere to legal, medical, regulatory and compliance guidelines.
• Measuring value of programming and behavior change.
• Fully accountable for the flawless execution of all in-person and virtual learning events including learning journey design, facilitation, materials, and planning.
• Negotiate with AbbVie approved vendors, secure POs and reconcile all accounting functions associated with the execution of training owned by USLD.
   

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 7+ years of leadership training and managerial experience
• Deep leadership development subject matter expertise
• Excellent communication skills including written and verbal; with strong executive presence with capability to influence executive audiences
• Ability to deliver high-impact presentations and train appropriately on providing the same
• Fosters a willingness and ability to have inclusive conversations and demonstrates a commitment to listening and considering all points of view
• Experience in leading teams, preferably in sales and marketing leadership to design and implement training programs that will support successful execution of key initiatives
• Must determine long-range training and development requirements and implement changes in the programming to reflect these requirements
• Relevant certifications and continuous self-development required
• Travel – Up to 50%

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. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-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. 

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and 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.

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