[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All AbbVie jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/abbvie/) · [Search jobs](/search/) AbbVie · North Chicago, IL # Manager, Change Management North Chicago, IL Full-time Manager or lead Executive & Management Listed on AbbVie’s official careers site. Posted October 13, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on AbbVie’s careers site →](https://careers.abbvie.com/en/job/manager-change-management-in-north-chicago-il-jid-34306) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [AbbVie](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/abbvie/) / Manager, Change Management ## Job description 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 www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube. ### Job Description Purpose: The Change Management Manager leads change-management delivery for an assigned portfolio, program, or group of complex initiatives. This role partners with project leaders, sponsors, process owners, and functional stakeholders to develop and execute change strategies that support readiness, adoption, behavior change, reinforcement, and business outcomes. The Manager applies the AbbVie-wide RISE framework, oversees initiative-level deliverables, coaches change-management practitioners, identifies risks and barriers, and escalates portfolio-level issues to the Associate Director or Director. The role partners with stakeholders from project inception through implementation, stabilization, and benefits realization. ### Responsibilities Lead change-management strategies and integrated plans for an assigned portfolio, program, or multiple complex initiatives from intake/inception through stabilization and benefits realization. Apply the RISE framework, tailoring stakeholder, impact, readiness, risk, communications, learning, adoption, and reinforcement activities to initiative needs. Partner with sponsors, project leaders, process owners, and functional leaders to establish ownership, activate sponsorship, resolve barriers, and sustain accountability. Conduct or oversee stakeholder, change-impact, readiness, risk, and change-saturation assessments across people, process, technology, and organizational dimensions. Coordinate integrated communications, training, engagement, change champion, and reinforcement plans, ensuring content is audience-centered, accessible, appropriately sequenced, and aligned to desired behaviors. Coach Specialists and coordinate cross-functional contributors, contractors, and vendors as applicable, providing initiative-level work direction without changing formal reporting relationships. Review deliverables for quality and alignment with standards, brand guidelines, accessibility expectations, and governance requirements. Define and monitor initiative-level measures for readiness, adoption, proficiency, behavior change, feedback, business outcomes, and benefits realization, using insights to address fatigue and improve adoption. Maintain leadership updates, adoption dashboards, risk escalations, decision materials, and success stories. Contribute to capability governance, templates, service offerings, lessons learned, and continuous improvement, escalating systemic risks, dependencies, and resource constraints to the Associate Director or Director. ### Qualifications Bachelor’s degree preferred in organizational development, business, communications, education, human resources, psychology, or related field. 7+ years’ experience leading change management for complex, cross-functional, or enterprise initiatives. Demonstrated experience developing and executing change strategies across people, process, technology, and organizational changes. Experience advising senior leaders and project sponsors. Experience with stakeholder analysis, change-impact assessment, readiness assessment, change-risk management, and adoption measurement. Experience leading or coordinating change practitioners, contractors, vendors, or cross-functional workstreams. Strong facilitation, executive communication, writing, presentation, and influencing skills. Ability to define practical measures of adoption, proficiency, behavior change, business outcomes, and benefits realization. Analytical, problem-solving, conceptual, and prioritization skills. Change-management certification preferred (e.g., Prosci, ACMP, or equivalent). ### Key Stakeholders Director, IPMO; Associate Director, Change Management; executive sponsors; project and program leaders; process owners; functional leadership; IPMO/PMO; HR; Communications; Training/Learning; Specialists; change champions/advocates; external partners and vendors. 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 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 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. US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit [https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html](https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html) US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more: [https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html](https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html) ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Oct 13, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 18, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 18, 2026 - Listed for: 5 days - Location: North Chicago, IL - Employment type: Full-time[Apply on AbbVie’s careers site →](https://careers.abbvie.com/en/job/manager-change-management-in-north-chicago-il-jid-34306) ## More jobs at AbbVie ### [Associate Director Business Insights Lead In North Chicago Il Jid 33998](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/abbvie/jobs/d80f1aa4cf6973851f6b/) North Chicago, IL ### [Associate Director External Hub Programs In North Chicago Il Jid 33347](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/abbvie/jobs/11de4403ebfd3059f018/) North Chicago, IL ### [Associate Director Total Rewards In North Chicago Il Jid 33680](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/abbvie/jobs/d4238ff423e325303335/) North Chicago, IL ### [Associate Director, Capital Projects](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/abbvie/jobs/149174d01f568b986872/) North Chicago, IL ### [Associate Director, Change Management](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/abbvie/jobs/af8e0622fe4db849b659/) North Chicago, IL ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Change Management Process Architect](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/jpmorganchase/jobs/812e83249d3d1f952504/) JPMorganChase · Columbus, OH, United States ### [Sr Specialist, Change Management](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/davita/jobs/86e973344282caa10a0c/) DaVita · Denver, CO ### [Change Management and Martech Innovation Manager](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/huntington-bank/jobs/e7dbfe30e8fb19ef291d/) Huntington Bank · Columbus, OH Beachwood, OH ### [Business Program Manager - Capacity Change Management and Field Enablement](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/a6963d77a5763deffbf4/) Microsoft · United States, Washington, Redmond ### [(USA) Director, Change Management](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/walmart/jobs/1162f962f72ec39b8300/) Walmart · United States OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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