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Company Description

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

Job Description

Overcoming challenges together, moving mountains together.

Welcome to AbbVie! As part of an international company with 48,000 employees worldwide and around 3,000 employees in Germany, you will have the opportunity of addressing some of tomorrows unmet medical needs in close collaboration with your colleagues. Are you passionate about improving global health care? Do you want to contribute to improving patients' quality of life through your expertise? In a challenging work environment that offers opportunities of developing and increasing your own skills? You’ve come to the right place!

As a team member in our diverse HR Organization, the Early Career & University Relations Manager will be an agile, team oriented, self-starter, who is capable of working in a highly matrixed organization.

This person will report to the Talent Acquisition Director for Germany and work closely with the business, workers’ council and have direct line management responsibility for the Early Career team members.

You will set up and deliver AbbVie’s Early Career strategy for Germany and position AbbVie as the employer of choice in the biopharma industry!

Regular presence between AbbVie sites in Wiesbaden and Ludwigshafen may be necessary at times.

Make your mark :

· You will be responsible for shaping and structuring the Early Career & University Relations strategy as well as the EC and Apprenticeship Programs that Abbvie offers

· The right candidate will have experience in how to attract and develop talented professionals that can be part of our future workforce / future leaders

· Key priorities for this role will be providing leadership and strategic direction to define and manage AbbVie’s Early Career programs, all the way from our apprentices and interns/students to our trainees/professional development programs

· This position will work closely with the business leaders, TA and HR Directors locally and globally to create the strategy and program design to ensure a sustainable pipeline of talent

· You will also collaborate with colleagues across the globe to share best practices and enhance the quality of the early career development program experience at AbbVie.

This is how you can make a difference:

· Define and execute the Early Career strategy for Germany: Aesthetics, R&D, Operations and Commercial functions.

· This includes but not limited to: strategy, design, purpose, structure, governance, controlling/reporting, post program management, leader meetings, budget and works council

· Create and maintain a strategic workforce plan to anticipate and prepare for future organizational needs

· Establish a program curriculum focused on functionality and development

· Review and establish best in class talent and performance assessments for our potential candidates

· Leverage global Early Career programs to complement local strategies and programs

· Partner with Talent Acquisition on sourcing and conversions

· Develop a retention / return strategy for Early Career talent including transfer planning into experienced hire roles

· Further develop the creation and maintenance of the Alumni program

· Establish a true business partnership model internally with senior leaders, assignment managers, human resources partners, talent management and talent acquisition on all early career related activities

· Partner with the Works Council and find mutually beneficial solutions

· Leads the communication on updates, metrics and data regarding external hiring trends

· Identifies opportunities to build long lasting, mutually beneficial relationships with schools and universities and professors and evolve these into a source of talent

· Actively engages with Employee Value Proposition team

· Leads, manages and develops a high performing EC team.

· Identify efficiencies and improvements in the current process, challenge status quo for added value to business stakeholders

· Design, in collaboration with our EVP Specialist, Germany’s EC talent attraction and event strategy

· Identify opportunities to continuously evolve the overall university recruiting process and employer branding efforts.

Qualifications

Your Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s Degree

· Proven experience in Early Career Talent Acquisition

· Experience in working with a German works council

· Ability to manage a team (4) and provide strategic as well as operational direction

· Mentor recruiters and lead people towards achieving objectives

· Proven track record of creating winning strategies as well as execution/communication plans

· Strong stakeholder management and communication/ influencing skills in German and English

· Thorough understanding of the early talent market in Germany

· Experience in project management, ideal

· Able to use ATS/CRM recruiting systems and online recruiting resources

· Overall knowledge of job boards and job advertising and candidate marketing techniques

· Demonstrated ability to mentor recruiters and lead people towards achieving objectives

· Proven performance achieving goals and standards.

Here's how we can move mountains together:

· with a diverse work environment where you can have a real impact

· with an open corporate culture

· with an attractive salary

· with flexible work models for a healthy work-life balance

· with a wide range of career opportunities in an international organization

Multiple times, we have been globally recognized as a "Great Place to Work" and we are proud to provide our employees with the flexibility to maintain a healthy work-life balance. We take our impact on the environment and our communities seriously and therefore focus on giving something back on a regular basis. We are committed to equality, equity, diversity, and inclusion (EED&I) – a commitment that is fundamental to us. This includes appreciating different perspectives, creating an inclusive culture and treating all employees with dignity and respect.

At AbbVie, your individual contributions count – help us move mountains together. Be a part of our success, grow with us and accomplish more than you could have imagined. Sounds like the perfect career opportunity for you? We look forward to receiving your application! All you need is a complete CV – we will discuss everything else with you in person.

Additional Information

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.