Director, EEDI Enablement

Role Overview

The Director, EEDI Enablement is a strategic leader responsible for driving enterprise-wide Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EEDI) activation through communications, change adoption, and integrated enablement initiatives. This role is highly collaborative – with partners across HR and AbbVie, shaping how EEDI strategy comes to life across the organization. A successful candidate will have proven experience translating vision into clear, compelling narratives, scalable programs, and measurable outcomes. The Director, EEDI Enablement serves as a trusted partner to senior leaders, HR, and cross-functional stakeholders—ensuring EEDI is embedded across the employee experience, leadership expectations, and enterprise communications.

As a member of the EEDI leadership team, the Director, EEDI Enablement balances a long-term, strategic vision with strong operational delivery, setting the vision and strategy across a multi-year horizon and leading activation through functional enablement. This role leads EEDI strategy activation, functional communications, measurement, operational excellence, and governance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead EEDI governance – including guidelines for current and proposed programming, manage team operations, and strategic partnerships (e.g., external submissions, annual conferences, sponsorships, and memberships).
• Translate EEDI strategy into a clear, prioritized roadmap with defined milestones, ownership and success metrics. Proactively identify, own and orchestrate change adoption efforts for key initiatives, ensuring alignment across functions.
• Serve as a key liaison across Legal, Communications, Talent, and business functions to ensure integrated messaging and execution. Ensure EEDI work is represented across HR practices, programs and strategic initiatives.

• Own functional communications, aligned with HR and Enterprise initiatives, embedding EEDI messaging across. 
• Partner with Corporate Affairs to own and evolve the EEDI narrative, ensuring consistent, compelling storytelling across internal and external channels. Partner with ERGs, councils, and internal communities to activate grassroots storytelling, highlighting the impact of EEDI globally and locally.

• In partnership with internal data and organizational research teams, develop EEDI measurement strategy, ensuring strategy is data-driven and impact is quantifiable. External benchmark with other companies on how they are approaching EEDI data visibility.
• Drive program management excellence, applying sprint based and PMO methodologies to keep EEDI strategic priorities and workstreams on track and on budget.
• Lead end-to-end execution of communications and enablement initiatives, including project management and prioritization.
• Establish workforce analysis, metrics and reporting mechanisms to track progress, measure impact, and inform continuous improvement.

Lead technology implementation for employee networks, including communications hub and membership portal, with an emphasis on how to better capture, dialogue with and engage AbbVie employees globally.

Required
•    Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
•    12+ years of experience in HR, communications, strategy, or related field, managing sensitive data
•    5+ years of experience managing teams
•    Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-wide initiatives in a complex, global organization
•    Strong executive communication and storytelling capabilities
•    Proven ability to translate strategy into deliverable programs and measurable outcomes
•    Strategic thinking, connecting culture, talent, and business outcomes
•    Trusted advisor with strong influencing skills
•    Systems-oriented delivery with ability to manage complexity and scale impact
•    Skilled storyteller who makes strategy simple, relevant, and actionable
•    Collaborative leader who activates networks, partnerships, and communities

Preferred
•    Experience in diversity, inclusion, culture, or talent strategy
•    Background in change management, organizational transformation, or enterprise communications
•    Experience partnering with senior executives and cross-functional leadership teams
 

About AbbVie

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

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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 long-term incentive programs. ​

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