Director of Enterprise Culture & Transformation

AbbVie Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie Inc. is seeking a Director of Organizational Culture to lead a company-wide culture transformation, embedding culture into strategy, leadership, and operations across geographies.

You will partner with senior leaders to translate cultural aspirations into measurable actions that drive performance and employee experience. You will shape governance, enable enterprise-wide adoption, and steward culture through governance, leadership alignment, and ongoing transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in business, organizational psychology, organizational behavior, human resources, sociology, or a related field preferred.
• 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 with proven ability to integrate culture strategy with business priorities, organizational systems, leadership expectations, and operational execution.

Responsibilities

• Define and continuously evolve AbbVie's enterprise culture strategy as a core enabler of meta-AbbVie, the business strategy, 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 extends beyond HR processes and activates culture through leadership, organizational systems, business practices, and employee experiences.
• Protect what is distinctive and valuable in AbbVie's culture while intentionally evolving the behaviors and ways of working needed for the future.
• Establish governance, decision rights, operating rhythms, and accountability mechanisms that sustain the enterprise culture agenda.
• Partner with business functions to translate enterprise culture priorities into relevant functional and local actions while preserving a coherent enterprise direction.
• Identify and influence the operational levers that reinforce culture, including processes, methodologies, incentives, measures, decision practices, role modeling, and resource allocation.
• Build mechanisms that connect culture to business performance, innovation, organizational effectiveness, employee experience, and strategy execution.
• Advise transformation leaders on the mindsets, behaviors, capabilities, and adoption of conditions required 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 the 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 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 around the cultural shifts, leadership behaviors, trade-offs, and accountabilities required 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.

Skills

Culture transformation

Executive leadership

Organizational effectiveness

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

AbbVie Inc. is seeking a Director of Organizational Culture to lead a company-wide culture transformation, embedding culture into strategy, leadership, and operations across geographies.

You will partner with senior leaders to translate cultural aspirations into measurable actions that drive performance and employee experience. You will shape governance, enable enterprise-wide adoption, and steward culture through governance, leadership alignment, and ongoing transformation initiatives.