Compliance Officer - AGM

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Compliance Officer – AGM Region

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Compliance Officer will interface with the AGM Business Unit (BU) senior management on a broad range of compliance issues critical to minimizing compliance risk to the company’s operations. This role has substantial responsibilities related to the implementation of a Global Compliance Program and its alignment with the relevant anti-corruption laws, including but not limited to the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the UK Bribery Act, as well as support and oversight to the AGM BU, with a specific focus operations in each of its countries.

Reporting to the LivaNova Chief Compliance Officer, the Compliance Officer will oversee and execute the Global Compliance Program within the AGM business and region. The goal would be to successfully drive transformation, continuous improvement, and a culture of compliance by collaborating across the teams and driving a clear focus and relationship with team members.

The Compliance Officer will be mainly responsible for:

• Supporting the Chief Compliance Officer in the development, implementation, and revision, as necessary, of LivaNova’s Global Compliance Program, Company tools, compliance standards, policies, and procedures.
• Demonstrating a clear understanding of and the ability to communicate, train and advise on, the relevant anti-corruption laws and regulations including but not limited to FCPA and SEC guidelines, UK Bribery Act and the UK Ministry of Justice Guidance, Italian Legislative Decree no. 231, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Anti-Bribery Convention, AdvaMed (all countries), MecoMed and MedTech Europe, and the specific laws and codes of the countries within AGM.
• Supporting the third party due diligence program for International Sales and Marketing Intermediaries (SMIs).
• Monitoring and coordinating training and education related to the Global Compliance Program’s policies and procedures.
• Supporting compliance with Company policy, and ensuring that all credible reported deviations from our Code of Conduct, policies and procedures or suspected violations of laws and regulations are documented appropriately and consistently.
• Ensuring the Compliance Team maintains awareness on pending, newly adopted, or amended anti-corruption legislation at the national and local level, as well as new enforcement trends of existing local and national anti-corruption laws and regulations.
• Maintaining awareness of trade association activities impacting Company business in AGM including but not limited to AdvaMed, MedTech Europe, Mecomed, and applicable local trade association activity.
• Attending and representing compliance perspectives in AGM leadership and stakeholder meetings.
• Maintaining an open line of communication between Company employees and agents and encouraging and responding to inquiries regarding compliance issues. Escalating issues to the Compliance Hotline and Investigations team where indicated.
• Building best-practice-based processes and collaborating closely with peers at a global level to ensure alignment.
• Establishing key performance indicators to capture and evaluate activity and lead improvement implementation.
• Ensuring local and global standards are implemented, regularly mapping risks and driving corrective actions, where necessary.

The Compliance Officer would champion:

• Creating proactive, business-centric partnerships for end-to-end process consultation across the business, supporting functions, and geographies.
• Supporting stakeholder groups in support of the company.
• Fostering relationships between key stakeholder groups to mitigate potential compliance risks and drive change adoption and sustainability.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Visionary leader and critical thinker.
• Resilient.
• Exceptional problem-solving/analytical skills.
• "Go-getter" attitude, focusing on pursuing and delivering results.
• Able to motivate and coach others.
• Outstanding communication skills (written and verbal).
• Excellent in engaging a wide variety of stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong and current understanding of the laws and regulations imposed on healthcare stakeholders, systems, manufacturers, and distributors by various governmental agencies and third-party payors with particular emphasis on sales activities.
• Demonstrated ability to present information effectively to senior management.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve conflict between groups with opposing perspectives, agendas, or priorities.
• Planning, project management, problem-solving, and change management skills.
• Skills in personal diplomacy.
• Demonstrated personal traits of a high level of objectivity, integrity, motivation, team orientation, professionalism, and trustworthiness.

EDUCATION:

• Qualified lawyer, admitted to practice, with expertise in FCPA and UK Bribery Act preferred but not required.
• Other relevant education may be considered if the candidate has proven experience in the Lifesciences Industry and meets the Experience requirements.

EXPERIENCE:

• Successful, 10+ year track record leading and maturing compliance organizations within a highly regulated industry.
• Strong understanding and experience with FCPA, FCA, AKS, SEC Guidelines, and UK Bribery Act.
• In-house experience required.
• Experience in healthcare management, sales, and marketing.

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

LivaNova values equality and celebrates diversity. We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair, transparent and free from unlawful discrimination.

Our selection process is driven by the key demands/requirements for the role rather than bias or discrimination on the basis of a candidate’s sex, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, non-job-related disability/handicap or medical condition, family status, sexual orientation, religion, color, ethnicity, race or any other legally protected classification.

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