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Senior Specialist, Business HR- Operations

AbbVie
North Chicago, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 22 Mar 2026

About the role

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, FacebookInstagramX and YouTube.

Job Description

Purpose

The Sr Specialist, BHR will be a trusted partner helping to shape our culture, support our business strategies and finding and developing the talent necessary to make a remarkable impact on AbbVie and patients around the world.
They will leverage best-in-class HR practices to continually construct, deliver and support programs that establish AbbVie as an employer of choice while empowering all employees at all levels of the organization. The Sr Specialist, BHR will support a specific function of the business.

Responsibilities

  • Partners with manager on strategic initiatives for the business, developing HR strategies, needs assessments and resulting HR solutions. Have credibility with Management to maximize successful outcomes. Assist or lead proposals and recommendations to resolve strategically important issues affecting a business segment. Prioritize projects based on business need and available resources.
  • Manages day to day HR duties at the site, such as answering payroll, leave of absence, time and attendance questions.
  • Extensive data analysis and pulling reports in support of site initiatives
  • Takes initiative and proactively drives day to day support needs for hourly workforce, culture, and office based workforce
  • Responsible for ensuring the effective “delivery” of all HR programs and services. Responsible for HR results in the business, including client satisfaction, HR effectiveness and associated financial results.
  • Establishes, builds and maintains strong relationships with key HR partners from all Practice Areas and Service Centers to ensure elements of HR are successfully coordinated to meet business needs; includes relationship management, leadership, HR roles/responsibilities, and service delivery commitments.
  • Be the ambassador of the HR organization to represent the services and resources available to the business and help manage the collective reputation of the HR organization.
  • Manage and leverage human and financial resources within scope of delivered project services while supporting a segment of the business. Facilitate and implement change. Ensure that day-to-day activities are moving forward. Manage delivery of HR services across a segment of the business.
  • Ensure appropriate amount of resource planning is accounted for by the Practice and Service Centers to support the needs of the respective business segment. Responsible for managing business needs of leadership team(s). Know the Business.
  • Depth of knowledge of critical success factors and challenges for a business/functional segment and its role in the larger AbbVie business models. Must be able to think creatively across a business segment(s) as well as into the respective organizations.
  • Must be able to understand and utilize historical and broad organizational data when weighing business HR decisions and actions. Able to understand all the options available and the potential impact of those options across the respective business units, as well as within the larger AbbVie business models.
  • Identification of trends and new approaches to business processes should be both incremental as well as “ahead of the curve”. Initiatives and changes to current business processes must have a clear linkage with other organizational efforts being proposed or already ongoing in the respective business.
  • Assist in the diagnosis, development and delivery of HR strategies, programs and services that influence and drive the needs of the respective business. Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and Procedures.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • 5+ years experience.
  • Project management or business experience.
  • Understanding of functional HR roles and responsibilities and impact on the business.
  • Knowledge of regulations and standards affecting the business preferred.
  • Demons

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