Director, Transformation & Governance

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

Lead the Digital Lab+ through a practical, sustainable transformation that strengthens organizational effectiveness, governance, capabilities, and ways of working. This role partners closely with the VP and senior leaders to translate strategy into disciplined execution, align stakeholders around complex trade-offs, and embed operating rhythms that improve clarity, accountability, and business impact. Operating at the intersection of business strategy, transformation, analytics, and leadership influence, this leader will navigate complex relationships, influence without direct authority, foster collaboration, and measure progress against outcomes that matter.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

The ideal candidate brings consulting-style problem solving, executive presence, systems thinking, and practical transformation leadership. They are equally comfortable structuring ambiguous problems, connecting seemingly unrelated challenges, identifying patterns across functions, facilitating senior leader alignment, and rolling up their sleeves to make scalable ways of working stick. This individual will serve as a proactive thought partner to leadership, helping identify emerging risks, opportunities, and interventions that strengthen organizational effectiveness, leadership accountability, collaboration, and readiness for the future.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the end-to-end activation and adoption of Digital Lab+ transformation priorities, translating strategic intent into actionable workplans, operating model design, governance routines, decision rights, accountability frameworks, engagement models, and scalable ways of working.
• Build and manage an integrated transformation roadmap that clarifies milestones, dependencies, risks, quick wins, resource trade-offs, and interventions required to accelerate adoption and value realization.
• Lead change management, culture, and stakeholder engagement workstreams across Digital Lab+ to embed leadership behaviors, accountability, collaboration, decision-making practices, and operating rhythms.
• Analyze organizational structures, team interfaces, workflow friction points, adoption metrics, stakeholder feedback, and performance indicators to identify improvement opportunities and course-correct execution.
• Partner with Finance, HR, Therapeutic Businesses, Analytics & Operations, and other cross-functional stakeholders to connect patterns across functions, shape integrated solutions, and drive operational effectiveness and measurable business outcomes.
• Facilitate executive and cross-functional forums that align leaders around complex trade-offs, prioritize the highest-value opportunities, convert decisions into clear next steps, and sustain momentum across workstreams.
• Develop practical playbooks, toolkits, communications, and leadership enablement materials that help teams adopt new ways of working with clarity and confidence.
• Identify future-state capabilities and skills required to support Digital Lab+’s evolution, strengthen organizational effectiveness, scale effective practices across teams, and embed continuous improvement into day-to-day operations.
• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to senior leaders by synthesizing complex information into clear recommendations, executive-ready narratives, and decision materials that surface emerging risks, opportunities, and interventions.
• Build informal influence networks and create mechanisms to monitor adoption, value realization, and organizational health, ensuring transformation efforts are sustained across boundaries and beyond launch.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred (e.g., MBA).
• Minimum 8+ years of experience in strategy consulting, transformation, organizational effectiveness, governance, or senior operations roles.
• Experience designing governance models, operating rhythms, decision rights, accountability frameworks, engagement models, adoption measures, and continuous improvement routines.
• Strong interpersonal skills that build trusted relationships, foster alignment, create clarity, and enable higher performance across a matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated ability to move seamlessly between strategic thinking and hands-on execution, balancing long-term direction with near-term delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale transformation, governance, operating rhythms, organizational effectiveness, or strategy initiatives in complex matrixed environments.
• Strong analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize ambiguity, identify patterns across functions, assess organizational effectiveness, and develop integrated, data-driven recommendations.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, executive communication, and strategic advisory skills, including the ability to influence senior leaders and informal networks without direct authority.
• Proven ability to shape narratives, craft compelling messages, and represent leadership in internal and external forums across diverse stakeholders.
• Proven ability to drive strategic transformation, culture and behavior change, future capability building, and organizational effectiveness by identifying improvement opportunities, aligning stakeholders, implementing solutions, and scaling sustainable ways of working.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• Translate strategy into executable priorities, thoughtful operating model choices, practical workplans, and sustainable routines.
• Influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners through systems thinking, data, insight, structured problem solving, trusted relationships, and informal networks.
• Navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and portfolio trade-offs while maintaining clarity, momentum, accountability, and focus on the highest-value opportunities.
• Balance analytical rigor with empathy, change leadership, culture-building, behavior change, and strong people partnership.
• Drive measurable business outcomes while strengthening organizational effectiveness, future capabilities, leadership behaviors, collaboration, and team performance.

Additional Information

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• 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 employee 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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