Director, Organizational Culture

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

Company Description

About AbbVie

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

Position Summary

The Director Organizational Culture is responsible for leading the evolution of AbbVie’s culture transformation agenda. This leader will shape, amplify, and sustain a culture that enables meta-AbbVie, accelerates execution of the business strategy and strengthens organizational performance.

This role extends beyond traditional employee engagement, communications, or culture stewardship and is accountable for embedding culture into how the enterprise operates, makes decisions, develops leaders, deploys talent, rewards performance, collaborates, innovates, and delivers results. The role will translate AbbVie's cultural aspirations into practical expectations, mechanisms, and measures across business functions and geographies.

The successful candidate will serve as an architect and catalyst for enterprise-wide transformation. They will partner 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 manages an integrated Culture function, including Organizational Research, connecting employee listening, organizational research, external trends, and workforce insights to culture priorities and enterprise action.

Core Responsibilities

Enterprise Culture Strategy, Stewardship & Amplification

• 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.

Enterprise Integration & Business Enablement

• 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.

meta-AbbVie & Talent Strategy Integration

• 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.

Executive Influence & Leadership Alignment

• 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.

Competencies

• Enterprise and systems thinking with the ability to connect 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 with the ability to diagnose complex organizational issues and translate 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 to value creation 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 the ability to lead without authority.
• Strong people leadership, talent development, resource planning, and cross-functional team leadership.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• 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.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and enterprise portfolios across functions and geographies.
• Biopharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, or other highly regulated global industry experience preferred.
• Management consulting, external thought leadership, industry consortium, benchmarking, or academic partnership experience preferred.

Additional Information

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 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 employer 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.

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