Director of Enterprise AI Learning & Skills Transformation

Company Description

Abb Vie'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 Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, You Tube, Linked In and Tik Tok.

Purpose: The role serves as the enterprise’s strategy lead and subject matter expert on education and workforce development for artificial intelligence and enabling skills. This role is responsible for leading AI learning efforts across the enterprise and functions, to create, implement, and ensure the co-creation of Abb Vie’s mandatory and supplementary training programs. The position requires exceptional cross-functional influence without hierarchical authority, deep credibility in the learning space, a performance consulting and enterprise mindset and the ability to drive measurable business outcomes through comprehensive AI enablement initiatives and enabling skills and behaviors partnership with others.

• Lead the development and execution of Abb Vie’s first enterprise-wide, mandatory skill building program, identifying and prioritizing opportunities to integrate across all business functions
• Serve as a champion for AI literacy and adoption—building capability through comprehensive training, awareness, and skill development programs
• Partner with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to align AI learning initiatives with agreements reached by the SLT
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation, driving adoption of certification through engagement campaigns and learning engagement
• Program Development and Coordination
• Design, implement, and evaluate comprehensive learning paths for technical, professional, and human centric training across diverse employee levels and functions
• Develop scalable training content and experiences
• Deploy an assessment framework tailored to adult learning tied to strategic business metrics
• Oversee housing of programming, ensuring a streamlined learner experience
• Build a framework that allows cross-functional collaboration and co-creation
• Leverages key stakeholders to support the enablement of critical skills
• Cross-Functional Influence and Stakeholder Management
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with functional training leads
• Serve as primary liaison to external consulting partners and vendors as required
• Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, and IT teams to ensure training is compliant and meets expectations
• AI Expertise and Technology Leadership
• Early adopter and experience in upskilling global organizations in AI/ML frameworks, LLM models (i.e. OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini), and enterprise tools (i.e. Microsoft Copilot, cloud platforms)
• Performance Management and Analytics
• Define analytics requirements to monitor program adoption, measure ROI and business value, and evaluate campaign effectiveness
• Track performance through multiple data sources, for reporting to various leadership levels including Executives
• Develop data-driven insights to create new initiatives that maximize program value and learning effectiveness
• Training Community Building
• Excite the enterprise to engage through various creative solutions
• Think like a marketer to drive adoption and behavior change
• Provide practical support to ensure the Abbvie Learning Network acts as a community, that drives content as well as functional implementation
• Manage AI learning communities to promote collaboration, knowledge sharing, and peer-to-peer learning

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, HR, computer science, data science or related field (master’s degree or MBA preferred)
• 8-12+ years of progressive experience in learning and development, program management, or field training roles
• Proven track record of leading digital training initiatives or transformation at scale and delivering measurable business value