Head of Ethics and Business Integrity Morocco/Tunisia/Libya

About the job

Our Team:

Ethics and Business Integrity (E&BI) in Sanofi enables the transformation of the practice of medicine to improve patients’ lives. E&BI is a strategic, agile, solution orientated business partner, focusing on the sustainable business growth, the design and implementation of patient centric innovation at all levels and the integration of societal expectations in the development of Sanofi products and services, making it a strategic differentiator for the company. E&BI in Sanofi is a cross functional collaborator, an architect of change, data-driven, science based, principle based and fostering thoughtful risk-taking decision-making across the company.

E&BI continuously strives to simplify, standardise and automate wherever possible and focuses on end-to-end experiences and outcomes. E&BI shapes the healthcare environment by co-designing the future ecosystem with different stakeholders. E&BI plays a key role in helping everyone at Sanofi bring the best version of themselves everyday to work in a diverse, open, inclusive and transparent culture

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Main responsibilities:

You will:

• Be responsible for the effective implementation of Sanofi Global Ethics & Business Integrity (E&BI) Strategy   as head for Morocco, Tunisia and Libya , across different global business units (General Medicine, Specialty Care, Sanofi  Vaccines and Consumer Health Care) operating on the markets directly or through third parties.
• Act as a strategic business partner, you will have an overview of all Morocco/Tunisia/Libya businesses, working in partnership with Management to ensure a sustainable business growth while ensuring proper Third-Party risk management.
• Work cross-functionally to foster accountability and design solutions for patients.

• Identify risks and opportunities for continuous improvement, areas and domains of potential vulnerabilities, inefficient or ineffective processes and partner with Global Business Units management to optimize the processes in compliance with company’s values, Code of Conduct and ethics and business integrity principles.
• Communicate clearly and strengthen understanding of E&BI priorities for the Sanofi Group
• Ensure that the implementation of global policies/standards/best practices is done timely and appropriately in Morocco/Tunisia and Libya in compliance with local regulations and Sanofi E&BI standards.
• Ensure that EBI training, awareness and communication campaigns are deployed to the targeted audiences.
• Steer and measure the efficacy of the EBI program in order to identify its strengths and areas of improvements, Recommend and follow action plans with the Global Business Units Heads and country chairs.
• Work closely with local management for designing and implementing corrective actions in order to solve deviation and deficiencies, and to prevent the occurrence of similar cases in the future.
• Provide advice in support to the business and global functions for ensuring appropriate decision making regarding their business strategies, projects and initiatives. Solves complex Ethics and Business Integrity issues that may potentially have a significant impact on Company’s reputation.
• Report potential violations of laws, regulations, rules, policies and Company’s procedures and participate to investigations on requests of the Global Ethics & Business Integrity team.
• Participate to the elaboration and implementation of specific Ethics & Business Integrity programs for country/MCO territory or for specific entities / contributes to Ethics & Business Integrity local, regional and global projects.
• Ensure that Ethics & Business Integrity Committee is held regularly and effectively, covering all matters having a major impact on Sanofi’s ethics and business integrity program in the territory .
• Collaborate with other Sanofi assurance functions for better risk management and translate monitoring findings into actionable items with appropriate follow up on corrective actions implementation.

About you

• Experience:

• Experience as Compliance Officer or similar position, preferably in pharmaceutical industry

• Experience in successfully leading projects in multicultural environments with cross functional collaboration Knowledge of anti-corruption requirements, knowledge of pharmaceutical industry self-regulation, general knowledge of sanctions, civil (including data privacy),

• Soft & technical skills:
  • Strategic thinking, people leadership, strong communication capabilities / team player, relationship and influence skills.
  • Customer centric and Solution-oriented.
  • Inspired by purpose, passionate and energetic, resilient

• Good level of understanding in project management.
• Proven ability in:
  • Change management.
  • Listening, negotiating, convincing.
  • Building and maintaining business networks.
  • Managing complex situations and conflicts.
  • Stretching beyond the comfort zone,
  • Taking action and making decisions supported by clear, structured and concise explanations.
  • Operating at any level of the One Sanofi organization
• Education: Higher Education (pharmacist, medical, finance, auditing, legal) Languages: Speak and write English well in addition to country languages.