Senior Legal & Compliance Leader – LATAM
GE HealthCare · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
**Job Description Summary** GE Healthcare Pharmaceutical diagnostics (“PDx”) is currently recruiting a team\-oriented, self\-motivated, and enthusiastic Compliance professional with extensive pharmaceutical industry experience as part of the PDx Compliance team. This position will report to a member of the GE HealthCare Pharmaceutical Diagnostics Compliance leadership team. In this role, the Compliance Manager will provide a broad range of compliance support to the PDx business, partnering actively with the business to sustain GEHC PDx’s ethical and compliant culture and developing actionable solutions together with company. S/he will also partner actively with GEHC Compliance colleagues across the entire organization on compliance matters as they relate to his/her area of responsibility. This role offers the opportunity to work across broad and diverse regions, partnering with senior leaders and contributing to the continued evolution of the PDx compliance program. **Job Description** GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator with over 100 years of healthcare industry experience and around 50,000 employees globally. We enable clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through intelligent devices, data analytics, applications and services, supported by our Edison intelligence platform. We operate at the center of an ecosystem working toward precision health \-digitizing healthcare, helping drive productivity and improving outcomes for patients, providers, health systems and researchers around the world. **Business Partnering** * Partner closely with business leaders to advance and promote a culture of integrity and compliance throughout the PDx business. * Maintain an understanding of key compliance risks relevant to the PDx business and partner with the relevant business leaders to assess risks and support development of risk mitigation strategies and tactics. * Develop an advanced business acumen to provide actionable, proactive, and compliant business solutions. **Compliance Program Management** * Partner and ensure alignment with the GE Healthcare Compliance team to develop and/or manage key compliance programs, policies and local procedures applying specifically to PDx. * Implement and facilitate implementation of company\-wide Compliance initiatives. * Maintain and/or create compliance metrics for operational reviews. Lead various compliance governance forums and committees including compliance review boards to address key compliance matters together and aiming at continuous improvement. * Support business groups in engagement and partnership with third parties to identify, assess, and mitigate compliance risks. * Ensure execution of the key elements of the company’s compliance auditing and monitoring program, including: + Defining the relevant monitoring plan to ensure business activities comply with established policies, procedures, and legal requirements. + Tracking and reporting results of the auditing and monitoring activities and the corrective actions taken to Compliance leadership and other internal key stakeholders as needed. **Employee Education \& Communication** * Facilitate, create, and conduct when needed compliance education on healthcare compliance, relevant laws and Company policies and procedures * Develop and maintain communications that promote and reinforce a culture of integrity **Other** * Partner with the Global transparency team to support the management of the company’s transparency reporting program for PDx, including country\-specific transparency, disclosure and aggregate spend reporting requirements * Partner with Global compliance colleagues on key projects and share best practices * Be an active member of the PDx Legal and Compliance team and support GEHC PDX\-wide initiatives. **Qualifications** * University degree in law, finance, business, or other professional areas. Master’s degree preferred. * A minimum of 5 \- 10 years’ professional experience with a pharmaceutical company in regional Compliance, risk mitigation, investigations, or audit. * Mandatory multi\-jurisdictional experience in Latin America and the United States * Excellent drafting, writing and oral communication in English, Portuguese and Spanish. * In\-depth understanding of regulations/Code/ laws applying to PDx operations. * Expertise in international compliance/regulatory law and enforcement, including the Anti\-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, Food Drug \& Cosmetic Act, US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), UK Bribery Act, global anti\-corruption laws, healthcare compliance laws and regulations, industry codes, transparency requirements, trade compliance and competition laws. * Proven track record of advanced leadership, influencing and collaboration skills, with the ability to successfully navigate complex matrixed organizational structures. * Strong business acumen, ability to detect emerging compliance trends and develop appropriate respo