Ethics & Compliance Officer (Morocco/North West-Africa)

Goal of function:
Ethics Compliance implements all aspects of a robust global compliance program in the respective location, i.e. resources, policies, procedures, templates, trainings, controls, monitoring and respective support for tools in use. Ensures adequate levels of transparency regarding the status of the global compliance program including potential compliance risks, mitigating actions and status of their implementation on a need-to-know basis for local management as well as other stakeholders internally and externally. Coordinates compliance related matters on local level and advises the various departments in the local organization.
 

Main Tasks:

• Participates proactively in relevant compliance and investigation training, networks and other respective educational activities to further professional development in consultation with Head of Regional Compliance
• Adapts globally provided policies, training content or other material to local needs
• Monitors, analyses, assesses and records local business transactions, processes, structures, relations as well as external developments and performs appropriate controls that promote an effective Compliance Program
• Advices locally with regard to compliance requirements in order to ensure compliance awareness as well as effective management of areas of potential compliance risk
• Identifies potential risks and initiates appropriate (preventive) mitigating actions, provides practical compliance-related solutions to reduce compliance-related risks, taking into consideration internal and external implications and/or supports their implementation
• Provides training on compliance topics to local employees on a regular and ad hoc basis
• Monitors regulatory developments and adapts Compliance Program accordingly, e.g. attending events, associations and doing research
• Ensures regular and ad hoc information flow for a sound collaboration within the Global Compliance Department and with other Ethics & Compliance Officers
• Conduct regularly reporting to internal and external stakeholders

Global Compliance Program

• Strongly supports in the further development of the Global Compliance Program, including optimization of processes, procedures, policies, training etc. and allocates available resources effectively and efficiently by e.g. providing feedback from local organization
• Strongly supports the implementation of global compliance instruments such as processes, procedures, policies, training, IT-tools by providing local feedback and implementing it in the local organization         

Projects and Operations

• Strongly supports the performance of all relevant projects and ongoing operations regarding scope, timeline for area of responsibility
• Strongly supports project work initiated on global level and conducts projects on local level
• Strongly supports in the maintenance and development of instruments for communication of compliance-relevant content; maintains and develops communication platform content (e.g., intranet, local MS Teams Channels) and performs processes for document management  
• Additional tasks in consultation with the respective supervisor

Requirements:

• Master degree or equivalent qualification in Business, Economics, Law or similar specialization is beneficial
• Minimum of 5 years of operational experience in the field of Compliance / Risk Management, Regulatory, preferably in the healthcare industry
• International experience is desire
• Compliance / Legal and business acumen
• Fluency in English and the language locally spoken: Arabic and French
• Solid command of MS-Office and ability to adapt new technologies
• Solid interpersonal, communication, intercultural, collaboration, change and project management, presentation / moderation, action orientation / problem solving skills, as well as the ability to deal effectively with all levels of an organization
• Strong result driven attitude 
• Solid apprehension and fast familiarization with new and complex tasks
• Good analytical skills and judgment