Compliance Manager North East Africa
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Job Description
A new and exciting role has opened in our compliance team, this is a regional role that reports to the Head of Compliance for the Middle East and Africa.
As our Compliance Manager for North East Africa, you will implement, maintain and monitor our Group Compliance framework, in particular but not limited to the healthcare sector, in close consultation with the Compliance Head of Middle East Africa. The local compliance program ensures the continuous promotion of ethical business conduct for all business sectors, following the company’s compliance standards as well as local codes and regulations.
You have in-depth knowledge of Healthcare compliance and act as a trusted advisor and business partner for local colleagues in all business sectors, especially healthcare. You provide guidance and serve as the primary contact for all compliance related matters in North East Africa, including local leadership team.
You design and conduct educational and training programs to create and increase awareness about our compliance standards and to prevent and mitigate possible compliance risks for our business sectors. You maintain effective local governance structures, including Compliance Committees, and procedures for compliance oversight and management with clearly defined accountability for local compliance responsibilities. Also effective participation in Country Council meetings and annual Board meetings is required.
You monitor and review business interactions and third parties / business partners, and when necessary investigate; you are also identifying and assessing compliance trends, relevant laws and regulations to develop necessary action plans and lead initiatives to ensure timely compliance by the company. You are an excellent communicator internally and externally and are able to channel compliance issues appropriately for resolution. Also, you manage the yearly transparency disclosure making sure all requirements are met in close collaboration with global transparency operations.
You also ensure the business compliance with all data privacy aspects within the North East Africa as being the data privacy officer of the region by strictly following both local and global applicable data protection laws as well as the company’s internal relevant regulations and processes.
Job Requirements
- An experienced professional with preferably a degree in management, finance or law, or other disciplines with relevant experience.
- You have deep knowledge of applicable laws and industry codes, in particular in the areas of criminal law, anti-bribery law, competition law, healthcare law and codes and have basic knowledge and experience in Legal, Internal Audit, Accounting, Quality Assurance, HR or similar.
- You have proven project management skills.
- Autonomous, and have excellent verbal and written communications skills, you apply analytical thinking and are solution oriented.
- You have leadership skills, including the ability to articulate the company’s standards and expectations as outlined in the relevant standards and codes, to ensure that these are applied consistently to the local situation.
- And have high proficiency in Arabic and English both written and oral.