Director Learning Development Jobs in Evanston, IL

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.

Purpose:

Lead the transformation of AbbVie's enterprise learning ecosystem by shaping the future of learning technology, artificial intelligence-enabled development, learner experience, data, and innovation. This role serves as a strategic architect, builder, and change catalyst, combining vision with execution to create capabilities that do not exist today and scale those that create measurable impact.

Bringing deep curiosity, technology fluency, and an innovation mindset, this leader will continuously explore emerging trends, challenge conventional thinking, and identify new opportunities to accelerate workforce readiness, employee performance, and organizational growth. Working across Learning & Development, Talent, Human Resources, Business Technology Solutions (IT), and business functions, the role will connect strategy, technology, data, and human-centered design to create modern development experiences and a future-ready learning ecosystem.

This is not simply a technology leadership role. It requires an entrepreneurial mindset and a willingness to move from strategy into action, translating ideas into scalable solutions, leading experimentation, driving adoption, and delivering tangible business outcomes. Success will come from building the future, not maintaining the status quo.

• Strategic architect, builder, and change catalyst
• Create capabilities that do not exist today
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Building the future, not maintaining the status quo
• Combines vision with execution
• Connects strategy, technology, data, and human-centered design

Responsibilities:

• LEARNING TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY Lead development and execution of the enterprise learning technology strategy, ecosystem architecture, and multi-year roadmap. Ensure learning technology investments support workforce capability development, talent priorities, and business objectives.
• GOVERNANCE Establish and lead governance processes for learning platforms, technology standards, operating practices, vendor management, and ecosystem decision-making. Create clarity of roles, responsibilities, standards, and accountability across the learning landscape.
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INNOVATION Lead the evaluation, piloting, adoption, and scaling of artificial intelligence-enabled learning solutions and emerging technologies that improve learning effectiveness, productivity, employee experience, and business impact.
• STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS Partner closely with Business Technology Solutions (IT), Human Resources, Talent, Compliance, and business stakeholders to align technology capabilities with organizational development priorities and enterprise goals.
• DATA AND MEASUREMENT Establish learning data, analytics, and measurement capabilities that connect development activity, workforce capability growth, readiness indicators, adoption, and business outcomes.
• LEARNER EXPERIENCE Improve employee discovery, accessibility, personalization, recommendations, navigation, and integration across learning technologies and digital development experiences.
• VENDOR MANAGEMENT Evaluate, select, manage, and optimize external technology providers and strategic partners to maximize value, innovation, scalability, service quality, and cost effectiveness.
• CHANGE MANAGEMENT Lead communication, adoption, and change initiatives associated with new technologies, tools, capabilities, processes, and enterprise-wide transformations.
• ENTERPRISE COLLABORATION Build strong partnerships across Learning & Development, Talent, Human Resources, Business Technology Solutions (IT), and functional stakeholders to ensure alignment, scalability, and successful implementation of strategic initiatives.
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT Provide thought leadership on future trends, innovation opportunities, workforce capability needs, and modern learning practices. Continuously identify opportunities to simplify, modernize, and improve the enterprise learning ecosystem.

Education and Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Leadership Development, Training and Development, Business Human Resources or relevant business experience, with an emphasis on developing talent and leader capabilities.
• Deep leadership development subject matter expertise required along with an active interest in creating innovative and thought provoking leadership learning experiences.
• Record of driving business performance. Knows what it takes for leaders to develop others and create high performance teams.
• Strong business and financial acumen skills.
• Experience in successfully managing enterprise wide leadership learning programs or corporate initiatives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to build and deliver executive ready presentations, ability to influence executive audiences.
• Ability to translate business priorities into leadership learning solutions.
• Experience leading measurement and evaluation of learning solutions.
• Proven ability to conduct global needs assessment and strong instructional design skills and experience preferred

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: 

• 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 thisposting 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. 

Note: 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 anduntil paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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