Graduate Compliance Manager

The Compliance Manager, International will play a key role in constructing, implementing, and embedding best-in-class compliance and legal practices primarily into CONMED’s International markets. The Compliance/Legal Manager’s first responsibility will be updating, implementing, and maintaining CONMED’s compliance program and strategies, and helping to ensure CONMED leaders, employees and distribution, sales and business partners understand and comply with laws to do business consistently with CONMED values, while preserving CONMED’s strong reputation of business with integrity.

Along with this work will be some ongoing contract drafting and review with respect to compliance-reviewed contracts as to distribution partners, physician consultants and medical education, in addition to distributor audit and trainings on compliance matters.

• Standards, Policies & Procedures: Ensure appropriate compliance strategies, infrastructure, and processes. Manage process to draft, implement, update, and maintain standards, policies, procedures, and controls for CONMED internationally, consistent with CONMED’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, to prevent and detect conduct that is illegal or could harm the Company’s reputation for business with integrity.
• Risk Assessment: Design and conduct risk assessments based on the external environment, prioritise risk, and develop risk mitigation plans.
• Communication, Education & Tools: Develop and manage delivery of effective and engaging compliance training and communication structure, program, materials and tools for sales teams, distributors, and other stakeholders, in view of identified risks. Support and maintain a culture where people feel comfortable speaking up regarding compliance and ethics. Establish and maintain channels, other than the CONMED Corporate hotline, for people to raise compliance concerns or allegations, and controls to ensure retaliation does not occur for the good faith reporting of concerns.
• Monitoring & Improvement: Monitor and establish metrics and benchmarks for the effectiveness of the compliance program and function, including with regards to healthcare compliance adherence, and use that information as well as risk assessments to update and improve the compliance program and controls. Perform transactions related to reports monitoring, third party vendors and others.
• Participation: Actively participate in CONMED’s Compliance Department to share best practices, standardise processes, drive initiatives and provide critical input.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university required.
• ~5+ years of experience in a compliance leadership role or a role with significant compliance responsibilities in a global company (life sciences technology industry experience preferred, not required).
• Ability to travel internationally and up to 25%.
• Ability to identify compliance risks and identify changes in the global risk environment facing the company.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare compliance.
• Ability to navigate ambiguities, prioritise and manage numerous simultaneous projects under deadline pressure.
• Strong project and resource management skills.
• Fluency in English.
• Genuine desire to work in an international setting with a high-level enthusiasm for the diversity of work.
• Graduate degree and/or professional accreditation preferred.
• Fluency in French or German preferred.