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• Lead the operational execution of the global Corporate Compliance program, translating compliance strategy into scalable global processes, systems, tools, and governance structures.
• Develop and maintain a global compliance operating model that establishes enterprise business-anchored standards while allowing appropriate flexibility for regional and local requirements.
• Establish standardized workflows, roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and governance frameworks for key compliance activities.
• Enable the timely collection and reporting of transfers of value to health care professionals and health care organizations globally, where required.
• Partner with global and regional Corporate Compliance leaders to identify requirements, harmonize processes, and support consistent execution across geographies.
• Develop and drive pull through of annual and multi-year compliance operational plans, priorities, milestones, and performance measures.
• Coordinate complex cross-functional and cross-regional compliance initiatives, including data analytics, and process improvement.
• Establish mechanisms for tracking compliance commitments, remediation activities, program enhancements, and strategic initiatives globally.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and improve compliance processes while maintaining appropriate controls.
• Support executive leadership, Compliance Committee, Audit Committee, and other governance reporting.

Global Compliance Learning & Communications

• Lead the operational strategy and administration of the global compliance learning program.
• Establish a global compliance learning framework that defines enterprise-required training while supporting appropriate regional and country-specific content.
• Oversee the Corporate Compliance learning curriculum, including Code of Conduct, anti-bribery and anti-corruption, conflicts of interest, privacy, competition, healthcare compliance, and other required topics.
• Establish role-based and risk-based learning approaches aligned with employee responsibilities, geography, and risk exposure.
• Partner with global and regional subject matter experts to develop, procure, update, localize, and deploy compliance learning content.
• Oversee learning management system processes, assignment rules, completion monitoring, escalation, reporting, and training records.
• Manage external learning-content providers and related vendor relationships.
• Establish metrics to evaluate training completion, effectiveness, learner engagement, and program impact across regions.
• Coordinate global compliance communications and awareness initiatives.

Global Policy & Procedure Governance

• Lead the operational framework for developing, reviewing, approving, publishing, maintaining, and retiring Corporate Compliance policies and procedures.
• Establish policy governance standards, templates, ownership requirements, review cycles, version control, and approval processes.
• Develop an approach for managing global policies alongside necessary regional or country-specific requirements.
• Coordinate periodic policy reviews with global and regional subject matter experts.
• Maintain centralized visibility into policy ownership, status, review dates, employee acknowledgement requirements, localization needs, and associated training.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and harmonize compliance policies across functions and geographies.

Compliance Systems & Technology

• Serve as a strategic business owner or key stakeholder for global technology supporting Corporate Compliance, including but not limited to transparency reporting platforms, review and approval processes, risk assessment, and monitoring.
• Develop and maintain a global compliance technology roadmap aligned with program strategy and organizational priorities.
• Lead requirements gathering across regions and functions to establish scalable enterprise solutions.
• Lead or oversee process design, vendor evaluation, implementation, configuration, testing, deployment, change management, and ongoing optimization of compliance solutions.
• Partner with IT, Information Security, Privacy, Procurement, business leaders, and vendors to ensure solutions meet business, regulatory, security, privacy, and data-governance requirements.
• Evaluate opportunities for workflow automation, system integration, analytics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies that improve compliance effectiveness and employee experience.
• Establish appropriate system ownership, access controls, data standards, support models, and change governance.

Global Compliance Analytics & Reporting

• Develop an integrated global compliance metrics and reporting framework providing meaningful visibility into program performance and risk.
• Establish standardized KPIs, KRIs, operational metrics, and reporting definitions across regions.
• Develop global dashboards and executive reporting for Compliance leadership and governance committees.
• Integrate information across business activities, training, investigations, policies, disclosures, monitoring, risk assessments, and other compliance activities to identify enterprise and regional trends.
• Develop mechanisms for comparing program performance and identifying emerging compliance risks across geographies and business units.
• Partner with Corporate Compliance leaders to translate data into actionable insights and program improvements.
• Support documentation and evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the global Corporate Compliance Program.

Risk Assessment & Monitoring Operations

• Lead or support execution and administration of global and regional compliance risk-assessment processes.
• Partner with Corporate Compliance teams and other stakeholders to develop and deploy risk-based monitoring plans.
• Establish consistent tools and methodologies for collecting, documenting, evaluating, aggregating, and reporting compliance risks.
• Coordinate tracking of global and regional risk mitigation and remediation plans.
• Establish mechanisms for connecting findings from investigations, monitoring, audits, risk assessments, training, and other sources to broader program improvements.

Compliance Processes & Enterprise Integration

• Provide global operational leadership for compliance processes such as conflicts-of-interest disclosures, compliance certifications, third-party due diligence, and internal investigation case management.
• Establish efficient and consistent intake, review, escalation, documentation, and reporting processes.
• Partner with global and regional business and functional owners to clarify accountability and reduce duplication across compliance-related workflows.
• Establish global standards while identifying circumstances requiring regional or local process variations.
• Support automation and integration between compliance processes and enterprise systems.

Operational Excellence & Global Change Management

• Apply process-improvement methodologies to simplify and strengthen global compliance operations.
• Lead current-state assessments across regions, gap analyses, future-state process design, requirements development, and implementation planning.
• Develop global deployment strategies that establish common enterprise standards while appropriately sequencing regional implementation.
• Lead change-management and adoption strategies for new compliance processes, technologies, and policies.
• Establish mechanisms for gathering regional stakeholder and end-user feedback and incorporating lessons learned into continuous improvement.
• Promote a user-centered approach that makes compliant behavior practical and accessible across the organization.

• Bachelor's degree in business, compliance, legal studies, healthcare, life sciences, operations, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in compliance, ethics, legal operations, healthcare/life sciences operations, program management, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to simplify complexity, manage competing priorities, prioritize actions based on impact, and pull through meeting deadlines.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to distil information and translate complex concepts into practical examples and persuasive arguments.
• Ability to lead without authority, inspire colleagues, and drive execution with a high degree of urgency to address the most impactful enterprise issues and needs.
• Strong commitment to and demonstration of competence, compassion, and courage.
• Experience operating within a complex, global, regulated organization; medical device, diagnostics, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise or global processes, systems, or compliance programs.
• Experience with multiple compliance operations capabilities such as learning, investigations/case management, policy management, compliance technology, analytics, risk assessment, or program governance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional and cross-regional initiatives.
• Strong project and program management capabilities, including requirements gathering, process mapping, implementation, change management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Demonstrated ability to establish global standards while effectively navigating regional and local requirements.
• Experience developing executive-level metrics, dashboards, and presentations.
• Unquestioned integrity, transparency, judgement, and humility.
• Ability to work cooperatively with others and to function well within teams.
• Well-organized with high attention to detail without loosing sight to the bigger picture.
• Highly self-motivated, with the ability to gain trust and credibility.
• A people leader with a demonstrated ability to develop talents.

Preferred

• Experience partnering with stakeholders across global markets.
• Knowledge of healthcare compliance requirements and industry codes applicable to medical technology companies across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience implementing and executing transparency reporting requirements in pharmaceutical or medical devices companies.
• Experience implementing or administering enterprise compliance technology platforms, learning management systems, case-management systems, policy-management solutions, disclosure systems, or analytics platforms.
• Experience leading global system implementations and vendor selections, including RFPs, requirements development, configuration, UAT, deployment, and post-implementation optimization.
• Experience with data visualization and reporting tools such as Power BI or similar platforms.
• Experience with process-improvement methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma.
• Relevant compliance, project management, or process-improvement certification preferred.