Purpose

Associate Director, Talent Acquisition creates and implements a strategic and proactive talent acquisition strategy with full stakeholder buy-in and participation to ensure that AbbVie attracts, sources and recruits the strongest talent. This role requires developing and implementing creative and innovative sourcing strategies and techniques to build a pipeline of candidates, as well as enhancing internal processes and systems, leveraging market insight to drive employer branding and sourcing initiatives in corporate functions, and partnering closely with senior leadership and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Sets vision, strategy and goals for all aspects of talent acquisition across Corporate Staffs Functions.
• Leads, mentors and develops the talent acquisition professionals. Lead effective recruitment process, practices and standards that provide high quality experiences for candidates and hiring managers. Lead, plan and manage change and projects, balancing competing priorities and resources.
• Builds strong partnerships with the Early Career Team, Talent Management, Talent/Executive Development, Business HR and business leaders across the organization in order to understand trends, business needs and talent needed to deliver solutions that support positive business results.
• Partners in the identification and prioritization of current and future talent needs, and the deployment of recruiting strategies to support business needs.
• Develops and deploys diversity recruiting strategies that increase representation and build high-performing diverse teams at AbbVie.
• Regularly assess future talent needs and partner with business and finance to ensure appropriate budgeting is in place to support recruiting demand.
• Manages and influences senior level business and functional leaders to ensure overall business objectives are met and the resources necessary to recruit talent are acquired.
• Develops and implements best practices to insure compliance with local regulations and recruiting practices.
• Creates and maintains an environment of equal employment opportunity, diversity and competitive advantage in support of the company's diversity and inclusion strategic plan.
• Conducts talent acquisition practices and metrics benchmarking plan.
• Conducts talent acquisition practices and metrics benchmarking