Senior Legal & Compliance Leader – LATAM

Job Description Summary

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 responses

• Ability to lead the change, be self-motivated to manage sensitive issues, and be accountable for the results

• Highly proficient using Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Strong analytical, organizational, and strategic thinking skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a global environment and good at managing work under a matrix organization structure and comparably complicated environment.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced and evolving business environment.
• Strong learning agility, strategic thinking and willingness to take on new challenges, develop expertise across new markets and business areas, and assume increasing levels of responsibility.
• Unquestioned integrity and ethics in business and personal conduct
• Ability to manage highly confidential information
• Able to travel within the region or internationally as required

GE Healthcare  is an Equal Opportunity  Employer  where inclusion matters.  Employment  decisions  are  made  without regard  to race,  color, religion,  national or ethnic  origin, sex, sexual  orientation,  gender  identity  or expression,  age, disability,  protected  veteran  status  or other  characteristics protected  by law.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

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Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided:No