{"id":4277411,"url":"https://alion.io/job/abbvie-ewr-director-operations","title":"EWR Director, Operations","company":{"id":3660,"name":"AbbVie","domain":"abbvie.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/abbvie","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":80,"open_postings":91,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":16,"computed_at":"2026-11-12T10:38:37Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Chicago, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":160500,"max":305000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":305000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Office","optional":false},{"name":"Windows","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-13T18:36:25Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-13","last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T19:24:26Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About AbbVie\nAbbVie'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.\n Purpose\nThe Director, Employee & Workplace Relations leads the employee relations function for U.S. Operations. The role sets strategy, advises employees and leaders, manages organizational risk, protects and strengthens a respectful, inclusive, and compliant workplace culture, and advances workforce and compliance priorities across the enterprise while ensuring adherence to applicable local laws, regulations, policies, and practices.\nResponsibilities\nChampions a strong, inclusive workplace culture by integrating culture-building efforts with employee relations practices, partnering with leaders to reinforce respectful behaviors, address concerns early, and sustain employee trust and engagement.\nEnsures compliance with applicable corporate and HR policies and procedures and holds overall responsibility for U.S. Operations employee relations.\nIdentifies and manages risk by using data and metrics to monitor emerging trends, develop appropriate contingency plans, and anticipate unintended consequences and broader organizational impacts.\nServes as a trusted advisor on significant employee relations decisions. Consults on, coordinates, and manages workforce reductions; influences senior leaders toward effective solutions; and applies standard project management tools to control scope, cost, schedule, and resources.\nActs as the employee relations liaison to senior HR leaders, business leaders, Business HR, Legal, Ethics and Compliance and other stakeholders in supported areas. Seeks relevant information from internal and external sources to inform decisions.\nBalances company and team priorities with local requirements and employee needs. Benchmarks internal and external practices and applies lessons learned to improve results.\nCoaches and directs key stakeholders, resolves complex cases, oversees HR compliance, and supports statutory reporting requirements, including the Affirmative Action Plan\n Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Employee Relations, or a related field; a master’s degree in Business or a related discipline is preferred.\n10-12 years of experience in Employee Relations and/or Business HR.\nKnowledge of U.S. employment and labor laws.\nExperience in a manufacturing environment is preferred.\nStrong organizational and employee relations oversight skills, including the ability to advance open cases toward timely resolution.\nProficiency with Microsoft Office in a Windows environment.\n Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:\nThe 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.\n\nWe offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.\n\nThis job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.\n\nNote: 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.\nAbbVie 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.\nUS & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html\nUS & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:\nhttps://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html","description_format":"text","description_chars":4691,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Prescription Drugs","Oncology Therapeutics","Neurology & CNS Therapeutics","Immunology & Inflammation Therapeutics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-13T19:24:26Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 236 · green card filings: 57","filings_12m":236,"filings_prev_12m":256,"green_card_filings_12m":57,"median_offered_wage_usd":150555,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-12T07:36:15+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":16,"reasons":["conf:3","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-13T22:26:50Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":305000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/abbvie-ewr-director-operations","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/abbvie-ewr-director-operations.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-13T22:26:50Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":44789,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3660},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3660"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fabbvie-ewr-director-operations"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fabbvie-ewr-director-operations"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fabbvie-ewr-director-operations"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/abbvie-ewr-director-operations\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fabbvie-ewr-director-operations"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4277411}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"abbvie.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4277411},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}