About the Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced healthcare compliance, regulatory, legal, ethics, privacy, or risk management professional to support multinational organizations operating throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
This role offers the opportunity to work directly with executive leadership teams and senior advisors on complex compliance, governance, regulatory, privacy, anti-corruption, and risk management matters affecting multiple jurisdictions.
Particular emphasis will be placed on supporting organizations operating within the medical device, healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences, and other highly regulated industries.
The successful candidate will serve as a trusted advisor supporting the development, implementation, enhancement, and ongoing operation of sophisticated compliance programs, regulatory initiatives, investigations, governance activities, and operational compliance functions throughout the EMEA region.
Key Responsibilities
Compliance Program Leadership & Governance
- Support the design, implementation, enhancement, and maintenance of enterprise compliance and ethics programs.
- Assist organizations with developing scalable compliance infrastructures, governance frameworks, reporting mechanisms, and oversight processes.
- Support compliance committee activities, executive reporting, risk management initiatives, and program effectiveness evaluations.
- Provide strategic and practical compliance guidance to executive leadership teams.
- Assist organizations in fostering a culture of ethics, compliance, accountability, and regulatory excellence.
Regulatory & Compliance Advisory
- Conduct legal, regulatory, and compliance research across EMEA jurisdictions.
- Monitor regulatory developments, enforcement trends, industry standards, and emerging compliance risks.
- Prepare executive-level memoranda, reports, risk assessments, and compliance guidance.
- Analyze regulatory obligations and provide recommendations regarding implementation priorities and risk mitigation strategies.
Healthcare, Commercial & Third-Party Compliance
- Support reviews involving healthcare professional interactions, educational programs, sponsorships, grants, consultant engagements, speaker programs, and related activities.
- Assist with anti-bribery, anti-corruption, ethics, and third-party risk management initiatives.
- Support distributor, vendor, consultant, and business partner due diligence reviews.
- Assist with commercialization governance, promotional activities, and operational compliance matters.
- Provide guidance regarding MedTech Europe, EFPIA, ABPI, and other applicable industry expectations and best practices.
Policies, Procedures & Training
- Draft, review, and maintain policies, procedures, codes of conduct, governance frameworks, standards, and guidance documents.
- Develop compliance training materials, communications, awareness initiatives, and educational programs.
- Support organization-wide compliance and ethics training initiatives involving anti-corruption, privacy, investigations, healthcare compliance, and related risk areas.
- Assist with policy implementation and operationalization efforts across multiple jurisdictions.
Investigations, Monitoring & Risk Assessments
- Conduct or support workplace investigations, compliance investigations, ethics matters, and issue management activities.
- Assist with witness interviews, documentation reviews, findings reports, and remediation planning.
- Conduct compliance risk assessments, monitoring activities, internal reviews, and gap analyses.
- Support development of risk-based auditing and monitoring programs designed to evaluate compliance program effectiveness.
Privacy, Data Protection & Regulatory Affairs
- Support privacy and data protection initiatives throughout the EMEA region.
- Assist with GDPR compliance, international data transfers, vendor oversight, and privacy governance activities.
- Support organizations in preparing for regulatory inquiries, audits, inspections, and examinations.
- Interface with regulators, government agencies, notified bodies, accrediting organizations, and external stakeholders as needed.
- Coordinate with local counsel and subject matter experts regarding jurisdiction-specific legal and regulatory matters.
Preferred Qualifications
- Attorney, compliance professional, regulatory affairs professional, privacy professional, risk management professional, or related discipline.
- Minimum five years of relevant experience.
- Experience supporting multinational organizations operating across multiple EMEA jurisdictions.
- Strong analytical, research, writing, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written English proficiency.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently while effectively supporting executive leadership teams.
- Experience within healthcare, medical device, pharmaceutical, life sciences, financial services, or other regulated industries strongly preferred.
Location
Candidates located in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, or other EMEA jurisdictions are encouraged to apply.
Application Requirements
Please submit the following to [email protected]:
- Resume / Curriculum Vitae
- LinkedIn Profile, if available
- Brief Summary of Relevant Experience
- Desired Monthly Compensation
- Weekly Availability
- Earliest Available Start Date
Pay: £24,420.00-£54,697.94 per year
Work Location: Remote
