Global HR Portfolio Lead
ABBVIE
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AbbVie is seeking a Global HR Portfolio Lead within the People Strategy & Transformation team to own an enterprise-wide HR portfolio across strategic priorities, run-the-business programs, and local affiliates. You will connect people strategy to execution by defining governance, data standards, and an integrated roadmap that enables clear, decision-ready insights for the CHRO and HR Leadership Team.
You will lead the evaluation of technology platforms, establish minimum information
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, Project or Portfolio Management, or a related field.
- 5-10 years of progressive HR experience, including meaningful responsibility for HR strategy, portfolio management, program governance, transformation, HR operations, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience establishing, managing, and using an HR portfolio to support prioritization, sequencing, governance, and leadership decision making.
- Experience designing and running business or program reviews focused on outcomes, value, risk, capacity, and forward-looking decisions rather than basic status updates.
- Proven ability to operate in ambiguity, structure complex problems, and build clarity and alignment around new enterprise capabilities.
- Strong experience influencing senior HR leaders and stakeholders in a complex, matrixed, global organization without relying on direct authority.
- Ability to translate strategy into simple processes, governance, decision frameworks, and actionable outcomes.
- Experience partnering with analytics teams and program leaders to define metrics for HR programs and services and use evidence to improve accountability and investment decisions.
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex portfolio information into decision-ready insights.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain a comprehensive global HR portfolio that provides visibility into strategic initiatives, run-the-business programs and services, and local or regional HR programs and services.
- Define a practical portfolio taxonomy, minimum data standards, ownership expectations, and governance model that create a consistent view of HR work across Centers of Excellence (COEs), Business HR (BHR), regions, and affiliates.
- Connect the portfolio to the People Strategy & Transformation team's broader mandate for HR strategy, annual prioritization, planning, budgeting, technology strategy, and transformation, ensuring portfolio insights translate into action.
- Ensure the portfolio reflects strategic alignment, clear outcomes, realistic delivery commitments, dependencies, resource requirements, risks, and expected employee and business value.
- Lead the evaluation and recommendation of the right technology platform to house the global HR portfolio, in partnership with HR Technology, BTS/IT, and key stakeholders.
- Define business and user requirements for a solution that allows program teams to manage detailed project information while enabling leaders to access concise, decision-ready portfolio views.
- Establish the information architecture, data standards, reporting requirements, role-based access, and integration needs required for a trusted global source of portfolio information.
- Guide implementation and adoption of the selected solution, balancing enterprise visibility with simple, low-burden maintenance for project and program teams.
- Establish ownership, validation, update, and escalation processes so portfolio information remains current, complete, and reliable.
- Create an operating rhythm for ongoing maintenance, including scheduled data reviews, exception management, quality controls, and accountability for timely updates.
- Continuously simplify portfolio processes and standards based on stakeholder feedback, data quality, adoption, and decision usefulness.
- Create and maintain an integrated, multi-horizon roadmap as the executive-level output of the global HR portfolio.
- Provide the CHRO and HRLT with visibility into major HR activations, business moments, dependencies, decision points, and periods of concentrated change.
- Identify friction points created by overlapping HR activations, conflicts with critical business moments, and cumulative demand on employees, managers, and HR teams.
- Enable fact-based sequencing and trade-off decisions that account for both HR delivery capacity and the capacity of the business and employees to absorb and metabolize change.
- Design and implement clear portfolio intake processes with central HR teams, including COEs and BHR, and with global, regional, and local HR teams.
- Define the minimum project and service information required to support enterprise transparency, prioritization, sequencing, risk management, and decision making.
- Establish ownership, validation, update, and escalation processes so portfolio information remains current, complete, and reliable.
- Create an operating rhythm for ongoing maintenance, including scheduled data reviews, exception management, quality controls, and accountability for timely updates.
- Continuously simplify portfolio processes and standards based on stakeholder feedback, data quality, adoption, and decision usefulness.
- Establish and help manage quarterly portfolio reviews (QBRs) that elevate the conversation from project status reporting to impact, risk, value, capacity, and future decisions.
- Design forums, pre-reads, analytics, and decision agendas that enable productive dialogue among central HR teams, global and local HR leaders, and HRLT.
- Facilitate alignment on what should be supported globally, what should be managed or driven locally, and where common solutions, sequencing changes, or trade-offs are required.
- Surface portfolio-level dependencies, delivery risks, capacity constraints, and decisions requiring HRLT sponsorship or intervention.
- Track decisions, owners, and follow-through from QBRs to ensure governance produces measurable action and stronger portfolio outcomes.
- Partner with People Analytics & Insights to help program teams define meaningful outcome measures, leading indicators, and value-realization metrics for HR programs and services.
- Build portfolio views that connect investment, delivery health, adoption, employee or business impact, and strategic contribution.
- Increase accountability among program teams and leaders for demonstrating the value of HR investments and using evidence to inform continuation, acceleration, redesign, scaling, or retirement decisions.
- Translate portfolio data into concise executive insights, recommendations, and narratives for the CHRO, HRLT, and other senior stakeholders.
- Build trusted partnerships across COEs, BHR, People Experience, HR Technology, People Analytics & Insights, Finance, BTS/IT, and regional and affiliate HR teams.
- Influence senior HR leaders to adopt common portfolio practices, make transparent trade-offs, and use portfolio insights in planning and prioritization decisions.
- Coach program owners and teams on portfolio standards, outcome definition, executive storytelling, and preparation for business reviews.
- Build a sustainable portfolio-management capability that can scale globally without creating unnecessary administrative burden.
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, Project or Portfolio Management, or a related field.
- 5-10 years of progressive HR experience, including meaningful responsibility for HR strategy, portfolio management, program governance, transformation, HR operations, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience establishing, managing, and using an HR portfolio to support prioritization, sequencing, governance, and leadership decision making.
- Experience designing and running business or program reviews focused on outcomes, value, risk, capacity, and forward-looking decisions rather than basic status updates.
- Proven ability to operate in ambiguity, structure complex problems, and build clarity and alignment around new enterprise capabilities.
- Strong experience influencing senior HR leaders and stakeholders in a complex, matrixed, global organization without relying on direct authority.
- Ability to translate strategy into simple processes, governance, decision frameworks, and actionable outcomes.
- Experience partnering with analytics teams and program leaders to define metrics for HR programs and services and use evidence to improve accountability and investment decisions.
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex portfolio information into decision-ready insights.
- Preferred: Advanced degree in business, human resources, organizational development, or a related field.
- Experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, life sciences, or another highly matrixed and regulated global industry.
- Experience selecting, implementing, or administering enterprise portfolio, project, work-management, or strategic-planning technology.
- Familiarity with portfolio and program management methodologies, including Agile, SAFe, stage-gate governance, capacity planning, benefits realization, or change-portfolio management.
- Strategic Prioritization & Systems Thinking
- Executive Influence & Stakeholder Alignment
- Decision Facilitation & Business Review Leadership
- Operational Discipline, Simplicity & Continuous Improvement
- Why People Experience at AbbVie
- The People Experience team is at the heart of how AbbVie attracts, develops, and retains the world-class talent needed to deliver on its mission. As Global HR Portfolio Lead, you will build the enterprise capability that connects AbbVie's people strategy to the full body of work delivered across HR, giving leaders the clarity to prioritize, sequence, and invest with greater discipline. Working within People Strategy & Transformation, you will help shape how HR turns strategy into coordinated execution, balances global scale with local relevance, and delivers meaningful, measurable value for employees and the business.
- Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
- This job is eligible toparticipatein our long-term incentiveprograms.
- Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.
- AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
- US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
- By clicking the link above or any third-party link within this posting, you are leaving this site and going to a third-party website where the third-party website's terms and privacy policy apply
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Job description
- Compensation: USD 160,500 - USD 305,000 - yearly
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.
Position Summary
The Global HR Portfolio Lead is a critical role within AbbVie's People Strategy & Transformation team, responsible for creating and sustaining an enterprise-wide view of the work delivered by HR. The role will establish the global HR portfolio across three connected categories: annual strategic priorities, ongoing run-the-business programs and services, and locally managed programs and services across affiliates and regions.
Reporting to the leader of People Strategy & Transformation, this role connects people strategy to execution by building the portfolio, governance, technology, integrated roadmap, and decision forums required to improve prioritization and portfolio value. The portfolio will provide the CHRO and HR Leadership Team (HRLT) with a clear view of commitments, timing, dependencies, capacity, risks, and outcomes, enabling disciplined trade-offs across global and local work.
This role is for a pragmatic portfolio leader who can operate in ambiguity, create clarity across a complex global HR ecosystem, and translate strategy into simple, sustainable processes. Success will be defined not by producing project summaries, but by enabling higher-quality decisions, reducing activation friction, strengthening accountability, and increasing the impact of HR investments on employees and the business.
Create and maintain a comprehensive global HR portfolio that provides visibility into strategic initiatives, run-the-business programs and services, and local or regional HR programs and services.
Define a practical portfolio taxonomy, minimum data standards, ownership expectations, and governance model that create a consistent view of HR work across Centers of Excellence (COEs), Business HR (BHR), regions, and affiliates.
Connect the portfolio to the People Strategy & Transformation team's broader mandate for HR strategy, annual prioritization, planning, budgeting, technology strategy, and transformation, ensuring portfolio insights translate into action.
Ensure the portfolio reflects strategic alignment, clear outcomes, realistic delivery commitments, dependencies, resource requirements, risks, and expected employee and business value.
Lead the evaluation and recommendation of the right technology platform to house the global HR portfolio, in partnership with HR Technology, BTS/IT, and key stakeholders.
Define business and user requirements for a solution that allows program teams to manage detailed project information while enabling leaders to access concise, decision-ready portfolio views.
Establish the information architecture, data standards, reporting requirements, role-based access, and integration needs required for a trusted global source of portfolio information.
Guide implementation and adoption of the selected solution, balancing enterprise visibility with simple, low-burden maintenance for project and program teams.
Create and maintain an integrated, multi-horizon roadmap as the executive-level output of the global HR portfolio.
Provide the CHRO and HRLT with visibility into major HR activations, business moments, dependencies, decision points, and periods of concentrated change.
Identify friction points created by overlapping HR activations, conflicts with critical business moments, and cumulative demand on employees, managers, and HR teams.
Enable fact-based sequencing and trade-off decisions that account for both HR delivery capacity and the capacity of the business and employees to absorb and metabolize change.
Design and implement clear portfolio intake processes with central HR teams, including COEs and BHR, and with global, regional, and local HR teams.
Define the minimum project and service information required to support enterprise transparency, prioritization, sequencing, risk management, and decision making.
Establish ownership, validation, update, and escalation processes so portfolio information remains current, complete, and reliable.
Create an operating rhythm for ongoing maintenance, including scheduled data reviews, exception management, quality controls, and accountability for timely updates.
Continuously simplify portfolio processes and standards based on stakeholder feedback, data quality, adoption, and decision usefulness.
Establish and help manage quarterly portfolio reviews (QBRs) that elevate the conversation from project status reporting to impact, risk, value, capacity, and future decisions.
Design forums, pre-reads, analytics, and decision agendas that enable productive dialogue among central HR teams, global and local HR leaders, and HRLT.
Facilitate alignment on what should be supported globally, what should be managed or driven locally, and where common solutions, sequencing changes, or trade-offs are required.
Surface portfolio-level dependencies, delivery risks, capacity constraints, and decisions requiring HRLT sponsorship or intervention.
Track decisions, owners, and follow-through from QBRs to ensure governance produces measurable action and stronger portfolio outcomes.
Partner with People Analytics & Insights to help program teams define meaningful outcome measures, leading indicators, and value-realization metrics for HR programs and services.
Build portfolio views that connect investment, delivery health, adoption, employee or business impact, and strategic contribution.
Increase accountability among program teams and leaders for demonstrating the value of HR investments and using evidence to inform continuation, acceleration, redesign, scaling, or retirement decisions.
Translate portfolio data into concise executive insights, recommendations, and narratives for the CHRO, HRLT, and other senior stakeholders.
Build trusted partnerships across COEs, BHR, People Experience, HR Technology, People Analytics & Insights, Finance, BTS/IT, and regional and affiliate HR teams.
Influence senior HR leaders to adopt common portfolio practices, make transparent trade-offs, and use portfolio insights in planning and prioritization decisions.
Coach program owners and teams on portfolio standards, outcome definition, executive storytelling, and preparation for business reviews.
Build a sustainable portfolio-management capability that can scale globally without creating unnecessary administrative burden.
Required
Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, Project or Portfolio Management, or a related field.
5-10 years of progressive HR experience, including meaningful responsibility for HR strategy, portfolio management, program governance, transformation, HR operations, or a related discipline.
Demonstrated experience establishing, managing, and using an HR portfolio to support prioritization, sequencing, governance, and leadership decision making.
Experience designing and running business or program reviews focused on outcomes, value, risk, capacity, and forward-looking decisions rather than basic status updates.
Proven ability to operate in ambiguity, structure complex problems, and build clarity and alignment around new enterprise capabilities.
Strong experience influencing senior HR leaders and stakeholders in a complex, matrixed, global organization without relying on direct authority.
Ability to translate strategy into simple processes, governance, decision frameworks, and actionable outcomes.
Experience partnering with analytics teams and program leaders to define metrics for HR programs and services and use evidence to improve accountability and investment decisions.
Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex portfolio information into decision-ready insights.
Preferred
Advanced degree in business, human resources, organizational development, or a related field.
Experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, life sciences, or another highly matrixed and regulated global industry.
Experience selecting, implementing, or administering enterprise portfolio, project, work-management, or strategic-planning technology.
Familiarity with portfolio and program management methodologies, including Agile, SAFe, stage-gate governance, capacity planning, benefits realization, or change-portfolio management.
Strategic Prioritization & Systems Thinking
Executive Influence & Stakeholder Alignment
Decision Facilitation & Business Review Leadership
Operational Discipline, Simplicity & Continuous Improvement
The People Experience team is at the heart of how AbbVie attracts, develops, and retains the world-class talent needed to deliver on its mission. As Global HR Portfolio Lead, you will build the enterprise capability that connects AbbVie's people strategy to the full body of work delivered across HR, giving leaders the clarity to prioritize, sequence, and invest with greater discipline. Working within People Strategy & Transformation, you will help shape how HR turns strategy into coordinated execution, balances global scale with local relevance, and delivers meaningful, measurable value for employees and the business.
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
- This job is eligible toparticipatein our long-term incentiveprograms.
Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
By clicking the link above or any third-party link within this posting, you are leaving this site and going to a third-party website where the third-party website's terms and privacy policy apply
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