Global HR Portfolio Strategist

ABBVIE; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 161,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie in the United States is seeking a Global HR Portfolio Lead to shape and govern an enterprise-wide HR portfolio across strategic priorities, run-the-business programs, and local initiatives. You will design governance, data standards and an integrated roadmap to improve prioritization and decision making.

Reporting to the leader of People Strategy & Transformation, you will partner with HR leadership, IT and analytics to deliver value, balance global scale with local relevance, and enable

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.
• Integrated Roadmap & Activation Management
• 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.
• Quarterly Business Reviews & Decision Forums
• 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.
• Stakeholder Partnership & Capability Building
• 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.

Skills

Portfolio management

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, Project or Portfolio Management, or a related field

Job description

AbbVie in the United States is seeking a Global HR Portfolio Lead to shape and govern an enterprise-wide HR portfolio across strategic priorities, run-the-business programs, and local initiatives. You will design governance, data standards and an integrated roadmap to improve prioritization and decision making.

Reporting to the leader of People Strategy & Transformation, you will partner with HR leadership, IT and analytics to deliver value, balance global scale with local relevance, and enable