Cleveland area Fortune 1000 Holding Company/Manufacturer

The Opportunity

This is an exciting, complex job in a very complex compliance landscape – the Company is comprised of multiple discrete operating businesses organized into groups, with over 100 sites globally and a very small group comprises the corporate-level compliance function. This role will have a great deal of room in terms of how to accomplish the necessary outcomes while working closely with a tight-knit corporate group.

You will provide center-led compliance-related guidance, focus, assistance and oversight directed at ensuring the global effectiveness of the Company’s compliance program. You will also advise and assist the legal and compliance department on key issues, risks and trends in specific assigned regions outside the US. Additionally, you may be the senior compliance advisor for one or more of the operating groups, advising the individual management team(s) of the group(s) on all compliance-related matters. Group-level responsibilities will include assisting and advising group General Counsels and senior leaders with the management of effective compliance program(s) that efficiently and effectively address unique and market-driven compliance-related risks that are associated and inherent to the relevant group(s), subsidiary companies and business units.

The Profile

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 4+ years of compliance-related experience working in a global and decentralized organization – you know how to develop relationships, implement programs and build trust across a wide spectrum of people, title levels and functions
• Operationally oriented – you understand how to get things done, manage conflicting priorities or needs, and make decisions that keep the business moving even when there is not an ideal path forward
• Policy drafting and training experience, with emphasis on ensuring that the policies and procedures are actually effectively implemented in practice at “boots on the ground” level
• Working experience with business in high-risk locales is helpful
• Foreign language proficiency also helpful