Associate Director, HR Communications

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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

The Associate Director operates as a strategic communications consultant to set and maintain an external HR communications strategy, key messages and narratives that drive understanding and engagement of what AbbVie offers its employees. This role will help bring the HR Communications team's vision to reality: creating and delivering communications to activate, inspire and engage current and future employees to deeply connect them to AbbVie while empowering employees to drive business success.

Responsibilities

• Sets the external communications strategy, utilizing expert writing and consulting skills to develop multi-faceted high-visibility messaging and strategic communications plans that have company-wide, global impact.

• Develops global communications plans and writes accompanying key messages and narratives, ensuring they are aligned to culture, equality, equity, diversity and inclusion (EED&I) and employer value proposition messaging, in addition to being aligned to the HR internal plan.

• Uses consulting and writing expertise to explain complex content in a clear and understandable way to employee audiences, in styles required to support the full spectrum of HR subject matter and various communications channels.

• Recommends innovative approaches to delivering communications that effectively tell the AbbVie story, provides the overview, framework and "voice" for communications across all channels.

• Through internal client and reader intimacy, directs the team in developing clear positioning, innovative formats and channels, strategic insights, and superior segmentation to achieve the HR Communications vision.

• Effectively manages client relationships with internal and external partners (Public Affairs, senior HR management, vendors, contractors, etc.).

• Ensures all communications are consistent and aligned with the company's corporate brand identity and employer brand.

Position Accountability / Scope:

The Associate Director reports to the Director, HR Communications, and must closely influence and respectively challenge senior management and communications peers to ensure clear positioning and messaging drives employee understanding.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree, preferably in journalism, public relations or other communication-related major.

• 10 years of experience with increasing responsibility in multiple internal and external communication roles in a corporate setting.

• Experience managing executive visibility plans and senior leader messaging, along with external messaging for organic and paid social media, including LinkedIn.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver strategic counsel and advise communication program managers to effectively execute communications plans and messaging.

• Experience advising senior management on effective communications plans along with dynamic public speaking skills.

• Prior experience with communicating HR content strongly preferred, particularly in talent acquisition, benefits, compensation, talent management or employee engagement.

• Requires strong project management skills, exceptional verbal and written communication skills, diplomacy, and multitasking ability.

• Writing test may be required.

Additional Information

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

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• 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. ?

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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 committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie's policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.