Associate Director, R&D Integrated Planning and Activation

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

The Associate Director, R&D Integrated Planning and Activation, will work directly with the Director, R&D Integrated Planning and Activation, to ensure cross-functional connectivity and consistency in internal communications across the global R&D organization. Key responsibilities include developing R&D employee engagement and communications strategy, stakeholder management and delivering plans and messages to support R&D-wide initiatives, culture campaigns and change management efforts in alignment with business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the Director, R&D Integrated Planning and Activation, and in partnership with Corporate Affairs and R&D functional communicators, to align, activate and pull-through R&D initiatives and employee engagement communications, ensuring elevation of the R&D Identity and integration with R&D strategic priorities.
• Develop, coordinate, and deliver R&D employee engagement and communications strategy for R&D-wide signature programs and culture building campaigns, including but not limited to award and recognition programs and leadership development.
• Serve as a strategic partner to R&D function communicators by providing advisory support and ensuring message pull-through and connection to enterprise R&D narrative.
• Engage R&D function leadership and communications stakeholders to create, socialize, optimize, and implement R&D-wide initiatives and drive alignment and buy-in with guidelines.
• Drive utilization and manage content for R&D-wide communications channels that enhance employee connection and engagement, including but not limited to town halls, leader