Manager - Compliance - Healthcare

Role/ Job Title: Manager Compliance

Location: Hyderabad

Role and Responsibilities:

Policy Management:

- Manage effective implementation of corporate compliance policies and procedures across the organization.

- Draft and roll-out any new or revised policies & procedures in effective manner. Version control of any revised policies and archival of obsolete/retired policies.

- Focus on key compliance policy areas like Code of Business Conduct & Ethics (COBE), ABAC, Gifts & Hospitality, Conflict of Interest, Trade Sanctions, Conflicts of Interest, Third Party Risk Management, Fraud Risk Management, Fair Competition, Statutory Compliance Management etc.

- Implement corporate compliance policy/procedure related improvements based on any recommendations from internal or external reviews and industry best practices.

- Identify any opportunity areas where new corporate compliance policy is needed for effective compliance program governance.

- Support and guide RCOs for any regional or country level local compliance policies or procedures revisions as needed.

- Collaborate and work with other cross-functional teams like HR, Finance, Secretarial etc. for any Policy Management related initiatives.

Training & Sensitization:

- Drive, shape and influence culture of ethics & compliance with effective compliance training & communication plan, which is based on the roles & responsibilities of employees and risks associated with those roles.

- Preparation and effective rollout of CoE Training/Communication initiatives as per Annual Training & Communication Calendar. Drive Annual COBE training & affirmation and other trainings/e-learnings completion on timely basis.

- Identify any gap areas where more focused training & communication is needed to improve overall behaviours.

- Assess the effectiveness of trainings and communications through various methods.

- Partner with Learning & Development (L&D) Team for timely completion of Compliance Induction Training of new joinees at Corporate Office and any other employees where training is organized by L&D Team.

- Drive any other compliance initiatives centrally as required to maintain and improve compliance behaviors through effective implementation of training & communication. For example Compliance Week, Compliance Club, Compliance Champion initiatives etc.

Compliance Governance:

- Organize Monthly Compliance Team Meetings led by CCO, where key compliance related topics are discussed with RCOs.

- Supporting CCO in organizing Quarterly Corporate Compliance Council (CCC) Meetings.

- Ensure timely completion of quarterly Regional Compliance Council Meetings as per plan, ensuring Minutes of Meetings are archived by RCOs in the common SharePoint;

- Drive tracking of corporate as well country level compliance training completions by ensuring all details are tracked and captured in common SharePoint.

- Drive Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Program from CoE perspective to ensure ABAC, Trade Sanctions and other relevant risks are managed and mitigated appropriately for the organization.

- Ensure timely completion of Due Diligences (DD) of in-scope third parties engaged by Corporate Functions as per policy/procedures. Drive proper tracking of DDs of in-scope third parties with proper documentation by RCOs in common SharePoint;

- Act as a Compliance Officer for the Corporate Functions and provide any guidance and oversight from Ethics & Compliance perspective, conduct self-assessments (CHI Tool), compliance monitoring and other responsibilities with respect to Corporate Office.

- Collaborate with various functions including but not limited to Corporate Finance, Corporate Communication, Secretarial, Human Resources etc. to drive the Legal & Compliance Agenda.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in law/ CA/ CS/ MBA Finance and relevant Business Compliance experience

- Minimum 5 to 8 years of experience experience working with a large MNC healthcare organization/ Consulting Firms in Business Compliance roles.

Required Skills:

The candidate should be a mature/independent/experienced professional with compliance background having below qualities:

- Good knowledge and understanding of Ethics & Compliance Program. Ability to positively influence stakeholders on the requirements/ standards/ norms as per Compliance Program and provide clear, pertinent, and timely advice to RCOs and other stakeholders.

- Proven experience in drafting Compliance Policies & Procedures and effectively implementing the same.

- Proven experience in developing and conducting training programs and execute communication campaigns across organization.

- Ability to identify, assess and mitigate compliance risks. Ability to work with the business to explain observations, create appropriate corrective & preventive action plan (CAPA) and ensure closure of the CAPA by the business.

- Good understanding of pharmaceutical industry landscape & practices and ability to apply & contextualize the knowledge to business problems.