About the role

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The Compliance Director, APAC South provides leadership and oversight for Abbott's ethics and compliance program across the APAC South region, including Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, and New Zealand. This role involves directing compliance strategy, managing a team, leading training initiatives, conducting risk assessments, overseeing monitoring and audit processes, and partnering with business and legal teams to resolve complex compliance issues. The position requires significant autonomy, people management responsibility, and deep knowledge of Abbott's business and regulatory environment.

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Key Responsibilities

Provide leadership, guidance and support to all levels of key divisional business functions on complex ethics and compliance issues, including policy interpretation and requirement, compliance risk assessment, trend analysis and best practice recommendations
Resolves complex ethics and compliance matters that have significant impact to Abbott
Directs and conducts periodic reviews and updates related to complex OEC policy and divisional/affiliate procedures ensuring clarity, applicability and compliance to OEC policy and external requirements
Develops, updates, implements, and delivers OEC’s comprehensive training program on complex OEC and divisional/affiliate policies and procedures
Provides oversight to corporate and/or divisional monitoring process to ensure compliance with OEC/affiliate policies and procedures. Reviews industry trends and internal results, and recommends corrective actions
Partners with the ECO and business on compliance audits, oversees the fulfillment of auditor requests, acts as liaison between business and auditors during on site activities, evaluates and assists the businesses with responses to all complex preliminary findings and recommendations, guides the business in preparing corrective action to address complex and highly complex findings and recommendations
Oversees all Affiliate Compliance Committees at the affiliate level and provides input on violation process. Reviews internal trends and implements corrective actions
Provides leadership and guidance on proposed commercial programs, identifies complex legal and regulatory issues, analyzes alternatives and works with legal, as appropriate, to propose solutions to the business
Leads cross-functional teams on complex issues or projects
Has direct reports with people management responsibility located in APAC South
Assists in selecting, recruiting, onboarding or otherwise training direct team and may also assist other OEC team members
Accountable to the APAC Ethics and Compliance Officer and executive-level divisional/country management

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) is required
Advanced degree such as MBA, Masters, JD, or equivalent work experience, strongly preferred
Minimum of 8-10 years’ experience, with exposure to business functions such as compliance, legal, regulatory affairs, governmental affairs, and finance
Experience working in medical device or life sciences industry, preferred
Experience with Microsoft Office suite including but not limited to Excel file management, PowerPoint presentations
Experience with data analytics. May include building, iterating, and managing reports and/or dashboards in relevant systems such as PowerBI or Tableau
Must have strong English written and verbal skills and an ability to effectively communicate with colleagues at all levels
Oral and/or written proficiency in other Asian languages, a plus