Director, Global Compliance

**Date**:20 Jan 2025

**Location**: SC00 - HEADQUARTERS - BARCELON, ES, ES - Spain

**Company**:Almirall

**About Almirall**:
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**Mission**:
As the Compliance Director for Biologics, you will serve as a strategic partner for our biologics portfolio, providing risk-based advice and solutions, ensuring adherence to complex compliance regulations and fostering a culture of integrity across the organization. You will lead compliance efforts, support strategic initiatives, and act as a key advocate for ethical practices.

**Tasks and Responsibilities**:

- Strategic Partnership: Collaborate with various teams to understand strategic priorities and navigate complex compliance regulations, identifying business implications and develop effective solutions.
- Relationship Building: Establish and maintain strong relationships across the business to enhance understanding of risk and compliance.
- Global Compliance Reference: Serve as the primary point of contact for global teams on compliance and promotional matters for current strategic biologic products and future launches.
- Compliance Strategy Development: Support the development of global compliance strategies together with the Executive Director, Compliance & Privacy.
- Promotional Compliance Leadership: Assume global responsibility for all aspects of promotional compliance for strategic biologic products, leading the compliance effort within cross-functional teams and task forces. Oversee compliance efforts related to materials, meetings, omnichannel initiatives, and provide expert guidance and training.
- Affiliate Compliance Supervision: Supervise and align affiliate compliance requirements, acting as a valued business partner. Drive continuous improvement of the compliance framework, including governance structures and monitoring mechanisms.
- Ethics and Integrity Advocacy: Champion the company's commitment to the Code of Ethics and Business Integrity Guide principles, advocating for ethical practices within the organization.
- Events: Partner with the Events Team before meetings and events and support strategic engagement with stakeholders and ensure compliance.
- General Counsel Collaboration: Actively participate as a key member of the General Counsel Area, fostering innovation and continuous improvement within the team.
- Monitoring: Implement routine monitoring in accordance with the global compliance plan.
- Training and Improvement Initiatives: Coordinate and direct training initiatives, propose and execute continuous improvement activities, and elevate compliance standards.
- Issue Escalation and Resolution: Ensure timely escalation and resolution of potential compliance issues, keeping senior management informed.
- External Representation: Act as the external compliance representative for business partnerships with industry associations and regulators, as needed.

**Education & Experience**:

- At least 8-10 years of experience in a compliance role, with a focus on areas such as promotional advertising, anti-bribery, anti-corruption, and sanctions. Experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry is highly desirable.
- Strong communication skills, with experience in effectively communicating compliance matters to senior leadership and other stakeholders.
- Proven experience in leading and managing compliance teams, including developing and implementing a compliance program.
- Experience with compliance tools such as Veeva PromoMats, CRM, OneTrust and MediSpend helpful.
- Experience in Farmaindustria Code of Practice and knowledge in EFPIA and IFPMA Codes.
- A bachelor's degree in law, business, life sciences or a related field desirable. Advanced degrees or certifications in compliance or related areas such as Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP) are advantageous.

**Skills & Competencies**:

- High level of proficiency in English, both written and verbal.
- Change management: ability to drive, implement and communicate change related to processes such as material review, content management, training, and communication.
- Proactivity: Demonstrated ability to proactively drive business objectives, suggest new approaches, and initiate projects.
- Accountability: Strong capacity to explain actions and thought processes, providing clear reasons for decisions.
- Autonomy and In