Compliance Officer Germany Commercial (m/f/d)
The posting period will end on the 9th of January in 2026
Job purpose:
Reporting to the VP Compliance Officer Europe, the Germany Compliance Officer (Senior Director level) is accountable for partnering with the General Manager for the Germany LOC and senior leaders 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. The incumbent is responsible for compliance and risk management advice to the GSK Commercial business in Germany and for mobilizing around the three key pillars of GSK Compliance: Predict, Protect, and Enable.
Key responsibilities:
1. Acts as a member of the Europe Compliance Leadership Team and the Germany Leadership Team
2. Works with GSK leaders to ensure the effective implementation a compliance programme within the Germany LOC to prevent, detect, and correct violations of company policy, including continued embedding of enterprise risk mitigation programs, including Commercial Practices, Anti-bribery and Corruption, and Privacy
3. Partner 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
4. Ensure deployment of relevant corporate policies in a simple, clear, consistent, and timely fashion that enables business leaders to drive competitive performance
5. Facilitate the Germany Risk Management and Compliance Board (RMCB). Proactively promote the RMCB to define effective risk management plans, integrating themes from investigations, monitoring, and auditing to provide oversight on execution of mitigation plans
6. Manages internal reporting and escalation of issues that Germany may face (including GSK Speak Up)
7. Partnering with Corporate Investigations Team, HR and Legal to ensure reported concerns are promptly and thoroughly investigated, with suitable corrective and remediation action and discipline where appropriate
8. Implementation of global compliance programs by translating global requirements into local specifications, including any relevant training
9. Advise senior leaders in the business on risk associated with emerging business strategies and pragmatic options for risk mitigation and management; provides advisory services in relation to GSK Policies and Standard Operating Procedures in designated areas
10. Ensures that proper internal controls are in place and in use, including management monitoring and Key Risk Indicators, and Risk Insights
11. Supporting the closure of local Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPAs) coming from internal audits, internal & external investigations, Independent Business Monitoring and Third Party Monitoring
12. Acts as a change leader for standardisation, where appropriate, to simplify the complexity of practices while maintaining adherence to GSK policy
Job Related Skills:
Learning agility
13. Thrives in ambiguous and complex situations, demonstrating agility and guiding others through uncertainty
14. Proven experience in quickly learning and understanding industry challenges, evolving commercialisation strategies, and related risks
15. Proactively anticipates potential risks or unintended consequences of decisions, leveraging data and input from diverse sources to make risk-informed choices
Leading Teams:
16. Cultivates self-awareness and drives continuous improvement, leading by example and welcoming feedback
17. Promotes collaboration, celebrates team achievements and fosters and inclusive and supportive environment to enable growth
18. Role-models the Compliance Enable Capabilities (Insights, Communication, Coaching and Learning Agility) and the GSK Culture Pillars (Ambitious for Patients, Accountable for Impact and Do the Right Thing)
Continuous Improvement
19. Raises levels of performance by establishing an improvement process, or setting specific, measurable targets and goals linked to GSK business needs
20. Enhances the scope for initiatives by reducing barriers to the performance of self or others
21. Determination and confidence to challenge the existing ways of working and shift current thinking to embrace working in a smarter, more efficient and simpler way
Building Relationships
22. Cultivates strong relationships, demonstrating emotional intelligence and effective communication skills
23. Ability to work collaboratively with diverse cross-functional teams and individuals at all levels in the organization with agility, integrity and flexibility, co-creating win-win solutions
24. Inspires trust and integrity through independent conviction and steadfast leadership; effectively balances relationship-building with the prevention or cessation of inappropriate wrongdoing or misbehaviour and maintains a high level of integrity and trust concerning sensitive compliance issues
Interpersonal & Communication Skills
25. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the capability to flex communication style to effectively engage and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
26. Effectively promotes business ownership of Compliance and Risk Management and brings pragmatic solutions to management to integrate risk management and address compliance issues by adopting a transparent, pragmatic and collaborative approach
27. Is proactive and delivers continuous and relevant communication to all levels of the organization
Requirements:
28. University Degree (Bachelor or Master) in a specialization such as Business Administration, life sciences, Risk Management or Legal
29. 10 years of Job experience in Compliance and / or Risk Management
30. Strong business acumen with a deep understanding of compliance frameworks relevant to the pharmaceutical sector
31. Proven experience in compliance, risk management, and control processes with a track record of success in supporting, developing or implementing compliance programs that align with an integrated approach to risk management
32. Skilled in risk management, process improvement, and project management. Capable of managing multiple projects across departments
33. Impactful communication and interpersonal skills to influence all organisational levels. Effective in a highly matrixed organization
34. Superior listening skills and analytical ability to diagnose problems. Creative problem-solving abilities and a strategic mindset to anticipate and address emerging compliance challenges
35. Ability to embrace technology, drive efficiencies, and leverage artificial intelligence and data analytics to enhance compliance processes and decision-making
36. Track record in providing high degree of self-reliance, accountability, and value-added consultation/support to senior business managers and other support functions
37. Maintains credibility, independence, integrity, confidentiality, and trust in sensitive compliance issues
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Why GSK?
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GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.