Associate Director, Talent Acquisition

AbbVie
Florham Park, NJ

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 . Follow @abbvie on X , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , LinkedIn and Tik Tok .

Job Description

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 NEC.
  • 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

Qualifications

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree required in Human Resources, Business Administration or similar career. Master’s Degree preferred.
  • Eight (8) or more progressive HR experience in large, global environments.
  • Five (5) or more years in global talent acquisition or sourcing role.
  • Significant experience in managing multiple task and projects related to the Human Resources field as well as project management knowledge and skills.
  • Communication skills, verbal and written.

Key Stakeholders

VP Talent Acquisition, VP Talent, VP BHR Corporate Staff Functions, Corporate Functional Leaders.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

  • The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

  • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

  • This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

  • This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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Posted 2026-01-30

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