The Opportunity

Our client a major FMCG company are looking for someone to be responsible for the oversight and guidance on laws and regulations that impact all aspects of R&D engagements promoting high standards of integrity, ethical behavior & legal compliance for R&D staff, key internal partners / customers and suppliers through:

• Implementation of the R&D third party risk assessment and management framework that addresses compliance - focused requirements impacting R&D when engaging with third parties

• Ensuring that all aspects of compliance & procurement policies are adhered to and that risk mitigation plans are in place for all areas of R&D outsourcing and academic engagement spend

Responsibilities

• Ensuring R&D staff, key internal partners / customers & suppliers are aware of their obligations with respect to all relevant policies, standards & regulations related to outsourcing and / or engaging third parties

• Lead the coordination of compliance and policy due diligence activities for R&D third party engagements ensuring all pre-contract activities are completed prior to contract execution

• Produce Risk Due Diligence Report, summarizing all key risks in scope of proposed engagement and providing a recommendation to the end user of actions to mitigate or manage the risk and ensuring appropriate signoffs

• Coordinate risk management activities working with third parties and SMEs / key partners

• Interfacing with existing R&D compliance / governance framework to escalate & address non-compliance issues and share best practice principles

• Define contractual monitoring for each engagement aligned to identified risks

• As required, serve as liaison between the company and external suppliers on compliance-related issues identified during due diligence

• Identify and proactively raise issues and concerns in a timely, open and appropriate manner and develop recommendations for resolution

• Provide consultation to other parts of the business as required 

• At point of due diligence activities, ensuring suppliers engaged by R&D are aware of and in compliance with the Third party Supplier Code of Conduct

• Working with relationship managers and procurement category managers to ensure procedural reviews 

Essential Skills

• Experience within the Pharmaceutical Industry 

• A basic understanding of Contract Management or Business / Proposal Development practice

• Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Business Administration or related discipline

• Experience managing matrix management and / or project management

• Previous assurance, audit, compliance, project management, quality functions experience

The Person

• Strong & proven influencing & facilitation skills

• Meticulous attention to detail & strong analytical abilities

• Strong organisational skills

• Advanced problem solving abilities

• Ability to meet tight deadlines and effectively manage time

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to build relationships at all levels, across many disciplines both internally and externally

• Ability to lead cross functional meetings which include subject matter experts and high level study team representatives to mitigate risks and develop action plans

• Language skills (French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Arabic, etc.) may be abonus.