Exec. Director, Corporate Compliance Business Partnering

COMPANY:

At BioCryst, we share a deep commitment to improving the lives of people living with complement-mediated and other rare diseases. For over three decades we’ve been guided by our passion for not settling for “ordinary” in our quest to develop novel medicines. We leverage our expertise in structure-guided drug design to develop first-in-class or best-in-class oral small-molecule and protein therapeutics, led by the efforts of our team of expert scientists in our Discovery Center of Excellence in Birmingham, Alabama. Our global headquarters is in Durham, North Carolina, our European headquarters is in Dublin, Ireland and our employees span the globe across sites in multiple countries. We are proud of our culture of engagement and accountability that rewards people for innovative thinking and achievement of key objectives. For more information, please visit our website at www.biocryst.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram. 

 

JOB SUMMARY:

The Exec. Director, Corporate Compliance Business Partnering will be a key part of BioCryst’s compliance team and will collaborate with other internal and external stakeholders as necessary to ensure global compliance at BioCryst with a high degree of independence.  The ideal compliance professional will possess solutions-oriented pragmatism, as well as excellent communication skills and attention to detail to be able to work in a cross functional capacity in order to continue building a best-in-class compliance program.  This will be accomplished by influencing values-based decision making and driving accountability in partnership with business leaders to generate trust from customers, business partners, and patients. #LI-REMOTE

  

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide strategic oversight of global business partnering functions to provide turnkey, consistent, sustainable compliance business partner support
• Lead and manage current compliance business partner employees, covering countries with various considerations while ensuring consistent ways of working
• Provide direct business partnering consult to countries and functions as assigned
• Sustain and evolve a continually proactive approach to global compliance
• Build and maintain relationships with regional leadership, constantly surveying/improving business partnering processes so the program drives confidence and competitiveness, as well as compliance
• Harmonize compliance approach to risk management across all markets
• Create relevant tools, templates, and dashboards for consistent use in compliance business partnering and in communications with Legal leadership team
• Oversee in-country vendors and consultants for the purpose of ensuring global consistency
• Collaborate closely with Global Compliance Operations for projects including but not limited to training, policies, monitoring, transparency, communications, etc. to ensure seamless approach to overall global compliance
• Responsible for right-sized compliance support considerations and proposals as the company expands into additional markets in the future
• Travel up to 20% as required
• Other duties as assigned

 

 EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• 10+ years of experience within Compliance or related field with a minimum of 5 years direct Compliance business partnering experience within the Pharmaceutical/Biotech industry
• Strong knowledge of applicable laws, rules, and regulations, including but not limited to, FDA, OIG, CMS, PhRMA/EFPIA/IFPMA, Open Payments/global transparency reporting, anti-kickback, fraud and abuse, anti-bribery, antitrust, privacy and product liability laws, rules, regulations and guidance
• Ability to contribute to decision-making affecting compliance approach, understanding and executing business strategy and goals
• Demonstrated pragmatism and operational focus, while maintaining a strategic mindset, seeking to assist others in finding practical, business solutions.
• Sound, agile decision-making and interpersonal/networking skills to lead and work effectively in a team environment.
• Ability to negotiate conflict and maintain constructive working relationships with people at all levels of the organization
• Ability to multi-task and set priorities within a rapidly changing environme