Manager, Talent Acquisition - Operations

AbbVie
Waco, TX

Company Description

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 Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Purpose

Our Operations teams manufactures and procures life-changing medicines and solutions, then brings them safely to patients and customers around the world.

In your role as Manager, Talent Acquisition, Operations, you will lead and build recruiting capabilities supporting our Operations teams in alignment with business objectives. You will deliver proactive recruiting strategies through the use of market insights and data to position AbbVie as the employer of choice in the biopharma industry. With our continued growth, your responsibilities may expand to building recruiting capabilities for new profiles, managing business expansions, and meeting ambitious hiring timelines of less than 60 days. To be effective, you will need to become familiar with our products, therapies, sites, and technologies, ensuring that your team's talent acquisition approach is well aligned with our business needs and the broader market.

Responsibilities

  • Provide recruitment leadership to a team of Talent Acquisition Professionals, requisition management and customer service management across the organization. Set vision, strategy, and goals for all aspects of recruiting talent across a function of the organization.
  • Compile and communicate the knowledge base, industry overviews, market trends, and company initiatives to team members and business leaders. Develop and implement comprehensive Human Capital Response Plans to meet business objectives.
  • Lead effective recruiting process, practices and standards providing high quality experience for candidates and hiring managers. Recruitment focus is on a specific area of the business. Responsible for attracting top talent and develop a strong qualified candidate pool.
  • Oversee pre-employment process (background check, references, etc.), as well as the preparation and approval of offer package, providing equity & market competitiveness data research.
  • Ensure compliance to state/federal employment laws and AbbVie policies and practices for applicant tracking compliance and reporting metrics.
  • Provide a true business partnership with hiring managers and leadership on all staffing related issues. Build solid relationships with key partners across the organization that yield consistent process and impactful results. Use data and market intelligence to provide consultative guidance.
  • Regularly assess future talent needs and partner with business and finance to ensure appropriate budgeting is in place to support recruiting demand.
  • Additional job functions would include, pre-screening candidates, project management in various functional areas at any given time, partnering with global team members to develop a sourcing strategies and qualifying talent for open positions.
  • Additional responsibilities include managing requisitions, updating the SmartRecruiters applicant tracking system, achieving recruiting metrics and reporting key accomplishments.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • Minimum 5-7+ years recruitment experience in a competitive, fast pace environment.
  • Must project a strong business presence and have the ability to instill confidence in clients and to deliver results.
  • Proactive recruiting and sourcing experience.
  • Prior staff management experience strongly preferred. Healthcare industry recruitment experience strongly preferred. Marketing and Sales experience a plus.
  • Experience in collaborating with a broader HR Organization in support of business initiatives preferred.
  • Builds strong relationships with peers and cross functionally with partners outside of team to enable higher performance.
  • Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo.
  • Creates a learning environment, open to suggestions and experimentation for improvement. Learns, fast, grasps the 'essence' and can change the course quickly where indicated.
  • Embraces the ideas of others, nurtures innovation and manages innovation to reality.

Additional Information

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 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.
  • 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 short-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 and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie 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.

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Posted 2026-05-06

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