Associate Director, Benefits

Company Description

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

Job Description

Purpose

This role provides leadership for U.S. Benefits programs and vendors for AbbVie employees and retirees in 70+ countries. This includes the design, development, communication and administration of benefits programs, including retirement, health & welfare and Vitality/well-being programs. The benefits team as part of the global Total Rewards team seeks to deliver forward-thinking benefits globally that supports AbbVie's Talent Philosophy and Total Rewards Guiding Principles to attract and retain top talent, supports the diverse needs of employees through their life and career stages, and responds to the rapidly changing business and economic environment.

Responsibilities

• Leads vendor/program management strategy and oversight, including contracting, financial oversight, service levels, communications, and escalated issues.
• Leads strategy and priorities for benefit program management for AbbVie employees and retirees.  Determine opportunities to improve AbbVie benefit plans and employee and retiree experience through new or enhanced programs, processes, vendors and tools.  Support M&A initiatives.
• Leads health and welfare data analytics, setting strategy and direction around data use and analytics to support benefit recommendations, optimize vendor and program management and support the value of benefit programs.
• Manages overall department and fringe budgets, including financial trends, budgeting and LBE annual processes.  Partner with finance.
• Project manage implementation of new programs, including system changes, HRConnect support needs, portal content, communication plan, live events/ benefits fairs/ cafe table-sits, meeting room logistics, vendor coordination,