Associate Director, Leadership Development

About the role

The Associate Director of US Leadership Development supports and partners with business teams and commercial leadership to improve the performance of US Commercial leaders.

Responsibilities

• Perform needs assessment
• Anticipate and 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
• Strong executive presence with capability to influence executive audiences
• Deliver high-impact presentations and train
• Give constructive feedback
• Foster a willingness and ability to have inclusive conversations and demonstrate 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
• Mature level of leadership skills with a birds-eye view perspective
• 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
• Executive Coaching certification
• Organize and task skills
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Champion ideas that challenge the status quo and drive performance
• Working knowledge and familiarity with virtual and digital learning tools
• Basic Bachelor’s degree required
• 5+ years of managerial experience