Senior Manager, Diversity and Inclusion

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
   

The Opportunity

This position works out of our corporate headquarters in Abbott Park.

What You’ll Work On

The Sr. Manager, Diversity and Inclusion will drive and deliver employee network governance and outcomes to support Abbott’s growth and achieve the Company’s diversity and inclusion vision. This includes fostering and managing the internal and external relationships necessary to drive diversity within the Company and the global customer base.

Operationally, this role will have direct accountability for leading and fostering high impact D&I alliances with internal stakeholders across a broad matrix, and contribute to our external outreach regarding Abbott’s corporate reputation and image related to D&I. This person will work with partners to enhance our diversity recruitment initiatives, events, and partnerships to grow Abbott's’ diversity pipeline.

Major Accountabilities:
 

D&I/Recruiting Role Expectations:

Employee Networks

• Engage Employee Networks, sponsors and chairs on regular basis and drive strategic outcomes supporting Abbott D&I strategy.
• Organize and execute large network events.
•  Implement and effectively communicate the D&I global strategy and detailed plans of long term and of short-term achievable goals with each network.
• Assess and guide networks on activities in support of business outcomes.

Align and Establish Partnerships with Cross-Functional Resources to Deliver High Business Impact Including:

• Partner with Business Human Resources organization in the implementation of activities related to the employee networks.
• Collaborate across Talent and Development organization to address training, recruiting, on-boarding, and strategic outreach programs related to D&I.

D&I Communication:

• Develop and deploy effective communications processes to enable the employee networks to share and amplify the work on D&I priorities.

Required Qualifications

Desired Professional Experience/Personal Attributes:

• 10+ years’ experience interfacing, influencing, and driving strategy with global business and HR leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to execute D&I strategy planning with global business goals to deliver measurable results.
• Experience in leading break-through change in a global, complex, matrixed environment. International experience is required.
• A self-aware, dynamic leader with outstanding communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• A high energy leader who can think strategically, as well as operationally “roll up their sleeves” to achieve tangible results. 
• The ability to take something BIG and break it down into achievable component parts with short term benefits while in alignment with the long-term vision.
• Highly developed business acumen, agility and problem-solving ability.
• Professional and personal pre