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Change Management Specialist
Abbvie INC · 🇺🇸 North Chicago, IL, US
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 177 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 94 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Abbvie INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “DIRECTOR,PATIENT SVCES DATA STRATEGY & BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE” (Management Analysts) in IL: $192k–$236k, median $214k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 177 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 94 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Purpose: The Change Management Specialist supports and, for assigned initiatives, leads the execution of change-management strategies that enable adoption, behavior change, and achievement of business outcomes. Working within the AbbVie-wide RISE framework, this role conducts stakeholder and change-impact assessments, supports readiness and engagement planning, develops communications and learning solutions, coordinates change champions and stakeholder activities, and monitors adoption and reinforcement. The Specialist partners with the Director, Associate Director, Manager, project teams, process owners, sponsors, and subject-matter experts from project inception through implementation and stabilization. The Specialist formally reports to the Director, Change Management and receives day-to-day work direction, coaching, or initiative-level supervision from the Associate Director and/or Manager. Responsibilities: • Execute change-management strategies and plans for assigned initiatives, aligning stakeholder engagement, communications, learning, readiness, adoption, and reinforcement. • Support or lead stakeholder mapping, change-impact assessments, readiness assessments, change-risk identification, and change-saturation monitoring. • Translate assessment findings into audience-specific engagement, communication, learning, and reinforcement plans in partnership with the Manager and project team. • Coordinate and facilitate focus groups, working sessions, awareness sessions, town halls, and other engagement activities to gather feedback, build understanding, and identify adoption barriers. • Develop clear, engaging, audience-appropriate communications, presentations, executive updates, job aids, FAQs, success stories, and other change materials aligned with approved standards and brand guidelines. • Support the design, development, coordination, and evaluation of eLearning, instructor-led, blended-learning, and performance-support solutions using approved tools and processes. • Coordinate change champion/advocate activities, including enablement materials, feedback collection, communications, and issue escalation. • Collect, analyze, and report readiness, participation, proficiency, adoption, feedback, behavior-change, and other relevant success metrics, identifying actions to improve adoption and reinforce new behaviors. • Maintain integrated change-management deliverables, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and action items in alignment with project plans and governance requirements. • Capture lessons learned, contribute reusable assets and case studies, and recommend improvements to change-management tools, templates, and ways of working. • Bachelor’s degree preferred in communications, education, instructional design, organizational development, business, human resources, or related field. • Familiarity with learning, collaboration, content-management, survey, reporting, and project-management tools preferred • 3+ years’ experience in change management, organizational development, project management, communications, learning and development, business process improvement, or related discipline. • Experience supporting changes to processes, systems, roles, operating models, or ways of working. • Working knowledge of a structured change-management methodology and willingness to learn and apply the AbbVie-wide RISE framework. • Experience conducting stakeholder interviews, impact assessments, readiness assessments, focus groups, or similar discovery activities. • Demonstrated ability to develop audience-centered communications, presentations, job aids, training materials, and other change deliverables. • Ability to use qualitative and quantitative data to identify adoption barriers and recommend actions. • St