Director, Compliance and Ethics Organization - Commercial, CV

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Position Summary:  

Reporting to the Head of US and Above Market Compliance and Ethics Organization, this role partners with senior leaders across Legal, Commercial, Medical, R&D, Global Drug Development, Regulatory, IT, Audit, Finance and HR to build and integrate one global compliance program into the US and Worldwide Commercialization Organizations.  In this role, you will combine your knowledge about risk mitigation strategies, such as education and monitoring, with data analytics about executional risk to help the business make well-informed, risk-based decisions.  You will help operationalize those decisions by crafting simple, clear, principle-based policies.  You will educate the business about those policies – and why they exist – leveraging adult-learning techniques that aid retention.  And you will use a combination of live monitoring, transactional monitoring, and data analytics to monitor the business’s adherence to those policies, helping the business remediate deviations from policies by identifying and addressing the root causes of those deviations.  The ideal candidate will be able to execute these tasks with a mindset that believes business functions and Compliance and Ethics are equally accountable for both company success and ethical behavior and will be recognized internally and externally as an expert in mitigating healthcare compliance risk through providing advice, drafting policy, providing education and monitoring execution of high-risk activities. 

Responsibilities Include:  

• Develop and conduct risk assessments utilizing a combination of data analytics, external and internal benchmarking, and review of enforcement trends, to proactively identify the most pressing areas of risk. 

• Foster trusting relationship with business leaders that enable you to learn of – and advise on – executional risk associated with new initiatives and counsel business leaders about educational initiatives, new policies or monitoring capabilities that can help mitigate risk associated with their decisions. 

• Analyze data regarding execution of analogous activities to better inform business leaders of the risk associated with their decisions. 

• Draft simple, easy to understand policies that empower the business to execute activities in an ethical and efficient way. 

• Develop and provide training that utilizes adult-learning principles, such as gaming, microlearning, and experiential learning, to enhance retention of compliance messages. 

• Establish a network of Compliance Champions in the respective business unit to integrate compliance messaging and concepts into established business training cycles. 

• Determine and allocate budget for training and culture initiatives for specific therapeutic areas. 

• Identify and leverage key stakeholders and cross-funct