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Senior Specialist, Business HR- Ops Transformation

AbbVie · North Chicago, IL · Full time · Human Resources

Posted Sep 18, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about partnering with a business function rather than running an HR program.

What they are checking: The posting names serving as a strategic partner supporting a specific function of the business.

This is at North Chicago. How does that fit your life?

What they are checking: Honest fit with the location the posting states.

What would you do

This role supports an operations transformation. What does HR actually do in one?

What they are checking: The posting's own title names the assignment, and transformation work is mostly people work.

How do you help people through a change they did not choose?

What they are checking: The posting names facilitating and implementing change.

How do you build credibility with a leadership team that does not think HR helps?

What they are checking: The posting names having credibility with management to maximize successful outcomes.

How do you work with centers of excellence and service centers to get something delivered?

What they are checking: The posting names relationships with HR partners from all practice areas and service centers.

A leader asks you to do something you think is a bad idea. What do you do?

What they are checking: The real test of a business HR partner, and the answer says whether they are a partner or an order taker.

How do you prioritize when the business wants more than you have resources for?

What they are checking: The posting names prioritizing projects based on business need and available resources.

About the work

Walk me through a needs assessment you ran and what came out of it.

What they are checking: The posting names developing HR strategies, needs assessments and resulting solutions.

How do you use workforce data to make a case?

What they are checking: The posting names using historical and broad organizational data when weighing decisions.

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The full job description

As published by AbbVie.

Purpose The Senior 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 • Serve as a strategic partner to 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. • 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. 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. • Demonstrated understanding of organizational development activity preferred. • Builds strong relationships with peers and cross functionally with partners outside of team to enable higher performance. • Learns fast, grasps the 'essence' and can change the course quickly where indicated. • Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo. • Creates a learning environment, open to suggestions and experimentation for improvement. 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. ​ 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. US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more: https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html

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