The Turkey Compliance Officer is accountable for partnering with the Turkey General Manager and senior leaders to enable the business to deliver commercial ambitions in a sustainable and compliant manner through influencing the right behaviours, driving the right accountability, and fostering the right leadership that embeds a compliance culture that protects the reputation of GSK and mitigates risk. Responsible for compliance and risk management advice to the Commercial business in Turkey and for mobilizing around the three key pillars of GSK Compliance: Predict, Protect, and Enable.
Key Responsibilities:
- A member of the Emerging Markets Compliance Leadership Team and the Turkey Leadership Team
- Works with GSK leaders to ensure the effective implementation of a compliance programme within Turkey to prevent, detect, and correct violations of company policy, including the continued embedding of enterprise risk mitigation programs, including Commercial Practices, Anti-bribery and Corruption, and Privacy.
- Partner with business leaders to proactively identify, evaluate, and manage risks in accordance with GSK’s internal control framework in a way that enables sustainable business growth.
- Ensure deployment of relevant corporate policies in a simple, clear, consistent, and timely fashion that enables business leaders to drive competitive performance.
- Facilitate the Turkey Risk Management and Compliance Board (RMCB). Proactively promote the RMCB to define effective risk management plans, integrating themes from investigations, monitoring, and auditing to provide oversight on the execution of mitigation plans.
- Manage internal reporting and escalation of issues that Turkey may face (including GSK Speak Up).
- Partnering with the Corporate Investigations Team, HR and Legal to ensure reported concerns are promptly and thoroughly investigated, with suitable corrective and remediation action and discipline where appropriate.
- Implementation of global compliance programs by translating global requirements into local specifications, including any relevant training.
- Advises senior leaders in the business on the risk associated with emerging business strategies and pragmatic options for risk mitigation and management; provides advisory services in relation to GSK Policies and Standard Operating Procedures in designated areas.
- Ensures that proper internal controls are in place and in use, including management monitoring and Key Risk Indicators.
- Supporting the closure of local Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPAs) coming from internal audits, internal & external investigations, and Independent Business Monitoring.
- Acts as a change leader for standardisation, where appropriate, to simplify the complexity of practices while maintaining adherence to GSK policy.
Flexible Thinking
- Demonstrates experience in quickly learning and understanding specific categories, industry challenges, marketing strategies, and related risks.
- Systematically evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of several realistic alternative solutions to issues. Creates an overarching strategy as a result of this analysis, which maximizes the benefits and minimizes the risks of the original options.
Teamwork
- Ability to work and contribute collaboratively as part of a team, respecting individual styles and cultural differences while focused on the delivery of the overall project objective.
Developing People
- Embeds behaviours in line with GSK Culture.
- Creates increased awareness and responsibility for Compliance and risk management.
Continuous Improvement
- Raises levels of performance by establishing an improvement process or setting specific, measurable targets and goals linked to GSK business needs.
- Enhances the scope for initiatives by reducing barriers to the performance of self or others.
- Determination and confidence to challenge the existing ways of working and shift current thinking to embrace working in a smarter, more efficient, and simpler way.
Customer Driven
- Leads initiatives designed to raise the 'value added' to customers. These activities will have a wider or longer-term effect than a specific action designed to address a particular customer issue or problem.
- Self-motivated, dependable and accurate. Ability to manage and deliver on expectations and deliverables to and from multiple managers.
Building Relationships
- Ability to work cooperatively with diverse cross-functional teams and individuals at all levels in the organization with integrity and flexibility.
- Build relationships with all employees and management and balance relationship-building with preventing or stopping inappropriate wrongdoing or misbehaviour.
- Sees issues through the 'eyes of another'; Is non-evaluative and non-judgmental about understanding the views of others, even when this view conflicts with own views.
- Seeks commonality/consensus by partnering with the business and building win-win solutions. Is open with own views and feelings and encourages others to do the same.
- Ability to maintain a high level of integrity and trust around sensitive compliance issues.
Interpersonal & Communication Skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the capability to flex communication style to the needs of stakeholders at every level of management.
- Promotes business ownership of Compliance and risk management and brings solutions to management to address risk management and compliance gaps and issues by adopting a pragmatic and collaborative approach.
- Is Proactive and provides continuous communication to all levels of the organization.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- University Degree (Bachelor or Master) in a specialization such as Business Administration, life sciences, Risk Management or Legal
- At least 10 years of job experience in Compliance and/or Risk Management
- Extensive knowledge & experience with compliance and risk & control programmes and processes
- Able to communicate at a senior level
- Project management skills to drive multiple initiatives across multiple departments simultaneously
- Track record in providing a high degree of self-reliance, accountability, and value-added consultation/support to senior business managers and other support functions
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence individuals at all levels of the organization to work by company expectations
- Ability to work effectively and sensitively in a highly matrixed organization
- Maintain a high degree of credibility, independence, integrity, confidentiality and trust, especially around sensitive compliance issues
- Superior listening skills, analytical ability to diagnose problems, resolve conflict and develop practical solutions
Job Posting End Date:
2 April 2025
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
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