Senior Compliance Officer, Global Commercial (Remote)

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Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a global biopharma company whose purpose is to innovate to transform the lives of patients and their families. We are dedicated to developing life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases — often with limited or no therapeutic options. We have a diverse portfolio of marketed medicines, including leading therapies for sleep disorders and epilepsy, and a growing portfolio of cancer treatments. Our patient-focused and science-driven approach powers pioneering research and development advancements across our robust pipeline of innovative therapeutics in oncology and neuroscience. Jazz is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with research and development laboratories, manufacturing facilities and employees in multiple countries committed to serving patients worldwide. Please visit www.jazzpharmaceuticals.com for more information.

Job Description

Reporting to the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, the Senior Compliance Officer, Global Commercial is senior member of the Ethics, Compliance, and Privacy department who will play a critical role in advancing the company’s long-term strategy and commitment to compliance and ethics by reliably and proactively identifying, mitigating, and managing compliance and privacy related risks across Jazz’s global commercial organization.  The Senior Compliance Officer, Global Commercial leads a team of compliance professionals, providing direction and guidance and helping to set ethics and compliance related strategy.  This role partners closely with global senior leaders in the Commercial, Medical, Regulatory and others key functions, including members of the Legal and Patient Advocacy departments to provide expert compliance advice and guidance to drive short and long-term corporate strategy.  The Senior Compliance Officer, Global Commerical regularly collaborates with other members of the Compliance department, to support the company’s overall strategic objectives and its strong culture of compliance.  

The Senior Compliance Officer, Global Commercial will have extensive knowledge of laws and regulations relevant to commercial activities in the pharmaceutical / biotech space, including the False Claims Act, Anti-kickback Statute, anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, UK Bribery Act, HIPAA, and GDPR.  The Senior Compliance Officer, Global Commercial should have extensive experience providing expert compliance advice and guidance to mitigate and manage the risks associated with business activities of a pharmaceutical / biotech commercial team, operating in a global market, including field sales activities, various engagements with healthcare providers and/or patients, speaker programs, advisory boards, and others.  The person in this role works autonomously, is confident and proactive in his/her approach and concise, clear and unambiguous in his/her communications. 

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

• Serves as trusted, strategic business partner and risk advisor to senior global leaders of the Commercial, Medical, and Regulatory teams across all of the various countries and therapeutic areas in which those departments operate, providing regular updates on compliance risk areas, mitigation strategies, and dashboards evidencing compliance program effectiveness;

• Provides expert strategic compliance advice and support to the global Commercial leaders and their teams, including, identifying, mitigating and managing fraud and abuse and kickback risks associated with engagements with healthcare providers and/or patients;  

• Serves as the subject matter expert and coordinates and collaborates with the Senior Compliance Officer, Global Policies, Education, and Investigations to develop global compliance and ethics policies and associated training and education materials to support the global Commercial team;

• Regularly conduct compliance training;

• Regularly supports and attends global Commercial meetings and events, including sales meetings, advisory boards, and customer engagement events to provide compliance support and guidance and/or conduct live monitoring activities, as needed;

• Sets clear and consistent standards for compliance support, risk advice / tolerance to be implemented by his or her team of compliance officers, engaged in the support of the global commercial organization and provides direction to the team;

• Serves as the subject matter expert and coordinates and c