Regional/Country EBI Business Partner L3-2

About the job

Opella

At Opella, we're building healthier future by helping people help themselves. We empower people to champion better self-care for themselves, our communities and our planet by making it as simple as it should be. We are a brand led, consumer first organization focused on growing our leading loved brands like Buscopan®, Nospa®, Eneterogermina®, Allegra®, Dulco®, or Essentiale® to help more people play an active role in their health.

Working together, we're focused on simplifying our business, clarifying roles and responsibilities and driving personal accountability to improve collaboration and excellence of execution while role-modeling and fostering challenger mindset across the whole organization to enable everyone to bring out their best every day.

Our Team

We are Opella’s Ethics and Business Integrity (EBI) team.

We are a team of strategic business stakeholders who establish the Opella Fit-for-Purpose EBI Program to address Opella’s business needs and ethics, compliance and privacy risks and who drive cultural transformation enabling fast ethical decision-making and accountability.

Our mission is to enable Opella to respond to consumers and society’s expectations for an ethical and compliant business conduct and be recognized as a strongly ethical business.

To successfully accomplish our mission, we demonstrate the following mindset and behaviours: we are strategic business owners, proactive, innovators, externally focused, impact based, role models and value creation center.

The Head of EBI India drives and oversees the implementation and continuous enhancement of Opella Ethics & Business Integrity (EBI) Program and drives cultural transformation enabling ethical decision making, conduct and accountability.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive/oversee implementation and continuous enhancement of a Fit-For-Purpose EBI Program for Consumer Healthcare for India. This includes policies and procedures, training and communication, risk assessment etc.
• Provide strategic advice and support to country leadership team on ethics and compliance related matters
• Provide ethics and compliance advice and support to country stakeholders for a broad spectrum of activities and brands
• Drive cultural transformation through ethical culture initiatives and implement plans to address areas for enhancement based upon ethical culture measurement
• Establish and drive country governance and chair country Ethics & Compliance Committee
• Report regularly to the Audit Committee and fulfill local reporting requirements
• Oversee implementation of Third Parties EBI Program
• Oversee external consultants who are supporting other zones
• Lead or support implementation of Distributor Partners EBI Program for partner markets in collaboration with Global EBI
• Work closely with the Global EBI team to provide country insights and information for the enhancement of Global EBI Programs
• Work closely with Global Brand EBI Officers for coordination of matters pertaining to country implementation of global brand related activities
• Conduct and support ethics and compliance investigations and recommend disciplinary and corrective measures
• Perform predictive monitoring and other reviews to identify, detect, prevent, mitigate and predict risks
• Drive and oversee the generation of meaningful insights such as trends, risk areas, areas of enhancement, root causes and outliers through data analytics
• Drive and monitor the execution of enhancement/remedial action plans
• Shape the external environment representing Opella in ethics and compliance groups of industry self-care associations and relevant organizations

About you

Experience:

• 10 + years of experience in ethics and compliance in India and with similar geographical scope;
• Previous experience in HealthCare or Consumer Goods industries
• Previous experience working within multinational and multicultural environments
• Proven experience in partnering with Business to provide pragmatic solutions to business challenges

Technical skills:

• Advanced knowledge of international business ethics and compliance principles, extraterritorial laws and regulations
• Knowledge of healthcare related laws and regulations applicable in India
• Expertise in providing sound, ethical advice to management on a broad range of business issues
• Good knowledge of MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word

Education:

• University degree in management/business administration, law or other relevant discipline/qualifications

We are open to various backgrounds as we believe it is the mindset, critical thinking skills and prior diverse experience that makes us successful in accomplishing our mission.

• Healthcare compliance certifications is a plus

Soft skills & Behaviours:

• Demonstrate an exemplary ethical behaviour; be a role model to team members and other functions
• Sound judgement and critical thinking skills; analytical and problem-solving skills; able to analyse issues and propose pragmatic solutions
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to succinctly summarize and present complex concepts to business partners
• Leadership and influencing skills; able to navigate and lead resolution of challenging situations and influence stakeholders across all levels
• A solution-oriented EBI business partner with strong influencing skills.  
• Able to work autonomously and cross-functionally
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while demonstrating flexibility and a willingness to adapt assignments to meet company’s needs
• Well organized, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced consumer healthcare environment and manage numerous projects simultaneously under pressure
• Creative thinker who is ready and willing to challenge the status – quo and innovate
• Adaptability to embrace a dynamic and diverse working environment

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If the description fits your experience and has aroused your interest, please apply so we can get in contact with you!

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