Job description
Posted Date: Feb 24 2023
Partner Markets Compliance Officer
This role is based in London.
The Partner Markets Compliance Officer is accountable for partnering with the Partner Markets Head to enable the business to deliver commercial ambitions in a sustainable and compliant manner through influencing the right behaviors, driving the right accountability, and fostering the right leadership that embeds a compliance culture that protects the reputation of GSK and mitigates risk. Responsible for compliance and risk management advice related to GSK operations in over 70 markets in Africa, Asia, Near East, Middle East and the CIS across 34 business archetypes: Direct to Government (DTG), Distribute Non-Promotion (DNP), and alliance markets (South Africa, Iran). Advisor to the Business in risk management and risks arising from working with remotely managed Third Parties in markets without local presence and operations in sanctioned and restricted geographies. Knowledge of, and experience with, commercial practices risks, high-risk sanction markets, and trading models is required for this role.
The Ukraine Compliance Manager also reports to this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Works with GSK leaders to ensure the effective implementation a compliance programme within the Partner Markets and to prevent, detect, and correct violations of company policy, including continued embedding of enterprise risk mitigation programs, including Commercial Practices, Distributor Risk Management, Anti-bribery and Corruption, and Sanctions & Export Controls.
- Partners with business leaders to proactively identify, evaluate and manage risks in accordance with GSK’s internal control framework and in a way that enables sustainable business growth.
- Coordinates monthly Risk Management and Compliance Board meetings to review relevant risk management plans and activities, and ensures the timely and rigorous completion of the annual GM Confirmation.
- Partnering with Corporate Investigations, HR and Legal to ensure reported concerns are promptly and thoroughly investigated, with suitable corrective and remediation action and discipline where appropriate.
- Implementation of global compliance programs, including any relevant training assigned to compliance.
- Advises senior leaders in the business on risk associated with emerging business strategies and pragmatic options for risk mitigation and management.
- Ensures that Partner Markets have a fit for purpose internal controls in place and in use, including management monitoring.
- Capability building of Partner Markets team and external partners in risk management.
- Support an effective third-party risk monitoring strategy in the Partner Markets by partnering with the Third Party Monitoring team to deliver effective third party audits
CLOSING DATE for Applications: 10th March 2023
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Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Bachelor or Masters’ degree
- Significant experience including proven work experience in Finance, Audit, risk management and compliance
- Knowledge of, and experience with, commercial practices risks, high-risk markets, and trading models
- Good communication skill, good negotiation skill, Business understanding, Ability to work and delivery in difficult environments
- Anticipates problems and works proactively to solve them through creative thinking, Business partnering, strong leadership
- a self-starter committed to delivering the highest in customer service quality and results
- Negotiates skilfully, anticipating reactions and planning strategically to overcome objections
GSK’s portfolio spans three product areas: vaccines, specialty and general medicines and our focus is to deliver better and faster for patients globally. Our unrivalled vaccine portfolio targets infectious diseases at every stage of life, helping to reduce the burden of disease for hundreds of millions of people. GSK has exceptional capabilities in vaccine science and technologies, including adjuvant/protein and mRNA. In specialty medicines, we are at the forefront of HIV prevention and treatment, and we are building our presence in key therapeutic areas such as oncology and immuno-inflammation. General medicines include our inhaled medicines for asthma and COPD, antibiotics and medicines for skin diseases.
By 2031, we aim to deliver more than £33 billion in annual sales – a step-change in performance and growth which will significantly increase the positive impact we can have on the health of billions of patients around the world. And we’re confident in our future. Our pipeline of 21 vaccines and 43 medicines includes many with potential to be first or best-in-class opportunities for patients
Find out more:
Annual Report 2021
Product Pipeline
Why GSK?
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.
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