Change Management Lead for Enterprise Programs

AbbVie; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Change Management Manager to lead change initiatives across a portfolio, applying the AbbVie-wide RISE framework. You will partner with sponsors, project leaders, and functional leaders to drive readiness, adoption, and business outcomes from inception through realization.

The role requires coaching practitioners, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring quality and governance of deliverables while maintaining leadership updates and dashboards to track progress.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience leading change management for complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience advising senior leaders and project sponsors.
• Experience with stakeholder analysis, change-impact assessment, readiness assessment, change-risk management, and adoption measurement.
• Experience leading or coordinating change practitioners, contractors, vendors, or cross-functional workstreams.
• Change-management certification preferred (e.g., Prosci, ACMP, or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Lead change-management strategies and integrated plans for an assigned portfolio, program, or multiple complex initiatives from intake/inception through stabilization and benefits realization.
• Apply the RISE framework, tailoring stakeholder, impact, readiness, risk, communications, learning, adoption, and reinforcement activities to initiative needs.
• Partner with sponsors, project leaders, process owners, and functional leaders to establish ownership, activate sponsorship, resolve barriers, and sustain accountability.
• Conduct or oversee stakeholder, change-impact, readiness, risk, and change-saturation assessments across people, process, technology, and organizational dimensions.
• Coordinate integrated communications, training, engagement, change champion, and reinforcement plans, ensuring content is audience-centered, accessible, appropriately sequenced, and aligned to desired behaviors.
• Coach Specialists and coordinate cross-functional contributors, contractors, and vendors as applicable, providing initiative-level work direction without changing formal reporting relationships.
• Review deliverables for quality and alignment with standards, brand guidelines, accessibility expectations, and governance requirements.
• Define and monitor initiative-level measures for readiness, adoption, proficiency, behavior change, feedback, business outcomes, and benefits realization, using insights to address fatigue and improve adoption.
• Maintain leadership updates, adoption dashboards, risk escalations, decision materials, and success stories.
• Contribute to capability governance, templates, service offerings, lessons learned, and continuous improvement, escalating systemic risks, dependencies, and resource constraints to the Associate Director or Director.

Skills

Facilitation

Executive communication

Writing

Presentation

Influencing

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Prioritization

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

AbbVie is seeking a Change Management Manager to lead change initiatives across a portfolio, applying the AbbVie-wide RISE framework. You will partner with sponsors, project leaders, and functional leaders to drive readiness, adoption, and business outcomes from inception through realization.

The role requires coaching practitioners, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring quality and governance of deliverables while maintaining leadership updates and dashboards to track progress.