Change Management Manager: Enterprise Adoption & Readiness

AbbVie Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Change Management Manager to lead change-management delivery for a portfolio, collaborating with sponsors, project leaders, and stakeholders to develop readiness and adoption strategies. You will apply the AbbVie-wide RISE framework, oversee deliverables, coach practitioners, assess risks, and ensure benefits realization from inception through stabilization.

This role partners with executive sponsors and cross-functional teams to drive adoption, measure outcomes, and sustain

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred in organizational development, business, communications, education, human resources, psychology, or related field.
• 7+ years’ experience leading change management for complex, cross-functional, or enterprise initiatives.
• Experience advising senior leaders and project sponsors.
• 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.

Skills

Change management experience

Stakeholder analysis

Facilitation

Executive communication

Influencing skills

Analytical/problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree preferred in organizational development, business, communications, education, human resources, psychology, or related field.

Job description

AbbVie is seeking a Change Management Manager to lead change-management delivery for a portfolio, collaborating with sponsors, project leaders, and stakeholders to develop readiness and adoption strategies. You will apply the AbbVie-wide RISE framework, oversee deliverables, coach practitioners, assess risks, and ensure benefits realization from inception through stabilization.

This role partners with executive sponsors and cross-functional teams to drive adoption, measure outcomes, and sustain