Associate Director, Leadership Development

About the role

The Associate Director of US Leadership Development reports to the Director of US Leadership Development with responsibility of directly supporting and partnering with business teams and commercial leadership.

This role is an internal consultant who coaches and guides leaders to foster positive work culture and teamwork while delivering executional goals that drive business results. The Associate Director is considered the resident expert on leadership development.

Responsibilities

• Performing needs assessment
• Analyze business needs
• Identify potential talent gaps
• Ensure alignment of learning solutions with business goals
• Engage partners in design and manage the delivery of training solutions
• Measure value of programming and behavior change

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills including written and verbal; with strong executive presence with capability to influence executive audiences
• Ability to deliver high-impact presentations and train appropriately on providing the same
• Ability to give constructive feedback
• Fosters a willingness and ability to have inclusive conversations and demonstrates a commitment to listening and considering all points of view
• Strong interpersonal skills ability to partner with others to collaborate and work together toward a shared goal
• Exceptional stakeholder management and ability to navigate complex, ambiguous environments
• Experience in leading teams, preferably in sales and marketing leadership to design and implement training programs that will support successful execution of key initiatives
• Candidate should be recognized as a leader among peers and model Coaching, Situational Leadership, other best practices of leadership principles
• Ability to inspire and motivate others towards a shared purpose
• Understand the products and business acumen for AbbVie including regulatory limitations
• Deep leadership development subject matter expertise
• Determine long-range training and development requirements and implement changes in the programming to reflect these requirements
• Stay up to date on current market trends in leadership capability development
• Relevant certifications and continuous self-development
• Familiarity with the methods and principles of adult learning for designing programs to teach, train and instruct both groups and individuals, including the means of assessing the effects of training
• Obtain Executive Coaching certification
• Develop colleagues through coaching, growth experiences and learning opportunities
• Strong organization and task skills
• Able to adjust course and plans based on newly introduced perspectives
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Able to champion ideas that challenge the status quo and drive performance
• Working knowledge and familiarity with virtual and digital learning tools

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• 5+ years of managerial experience
• Travel - Up to 25%