Senior BCT Specialist in Leeds

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DePuy Synthes is recruiting for a Senior BCT Specialist located in Leeds, UK. This role plays a critical part in enabling the effective delivery of compliance within EMEA. As a Senior Business Compliance Specialist, you will combine hands-on operational expertise with line management responsibility, ensuring that all business activities are conducted in line with Health Care Compliance (HCC) requirements. You will act as a trusted partner to the business, providing guidance, approvals, and solutions across HCP engagements, contracting, payments and compliance processes, while also leading a team and driving continuous improvement across the EMEA Business Compliance model.

Key Responsibilities:

• Compliance & Governance
  • Provide expert guidance, solutions and approvals for EMEA business activities in line with HCC requirements.
  • Review, validate and approve business requests (e.g. HCP interactions, sponsorships, engagements).
  • Manage first line business and HCP escalations, escalating to the EMEA Business Compliance Manager and HCCO where appropriate.
  • Ensure all activities are fully compliant, with appropriate documentation and approvals in place prior to execution.
  • Take ownership for oversight and integrity of transparency reporting activities, ensuring accuracy, completeness and timely delivery.
  • Maintain audit readiness by supporting data collection and implementation of in-process corrective actions.
  • Deliver training and coaching to the business on compliance processes and regulatory expectations.
• Contracting & Payments
  • Provide oversight and approvals for HCP contracts, and payments where appropriate, ensuring alignment with business need and compliance standards.
  • Draft and review contracts using approved templates and processes.
  • Validate contracts completed by team members, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
  • Ensure appropriate documentation (e.g. Evidence of Service) is in place to support payments.
  • Oversee compliance of Educational Grants and Charitable Contributions, ensuring appropriate review, approval and documentation.
  • Act as a key point of contact for contract-related queries with internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Process & Scope Ownership
  • Take ownership of a defined scope of activities and/or compliance processes, acting as the primary compliance partner to the business.
  • Drive standardisation and continuous improvement of compliance processes across EMEA.
  • Monitor activity trends, identify risks and opportunities, and implement improvements to enhance efficiency and control.
  • Support integration activities and organisational changes, ensuring continuity and compliance alignment.
• Leadership & Team Management
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team, providing clear direction and technical support to enable effective delivery.
  • Build team capability and ensure consistent application of compliance standards and best practices.
  • Act as a role model, demonstrating accountability, ownership and a solution-oriented mindset.
  • Support onboarding and development of new team members.
  • Support the Business Compliance Manager EMEA.
• Stakeholder Engagement
  • Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders including business unit Leads, HCC, Legal, Finance and external partners.
  • Build trusted stakeholder relationships and provide practical solution-orientated guidance.
  • Participate in business discussions to provide Business Compliance expertise and execution of business activities.
  • Communicate clearly across a diverse and geographically distributed stakeholder group.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred (e.g. Business, Life Sciences or related field), or equivalent professional experience.

Experience and Skills – Required:

• Experience in compliance, contracting, or a regulated environment.
• Demonstrated ability to provide compliance guidance, approvals and risk-based decision-making.
• Experience managing complex stakeholder relationships across multiple functions and geographies.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and conflicts constructively.
• Proven ability to lead, coach or develop others.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Able to work independently, exercise sound judgement, and manage competing priorities.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to audit-quality standards.

Experience and Skills – Preferred:

• Experience with HCP engagement processes, transparency/reporting requirements, and contracting frameworks.
• Experience supporting audits, monitoring or compliance testing activities.
• Experience driving process improvements or leading project-based work in a compliance environment.

Other: Fluent in English. Additional European languages are an advantage. Limited travel within EMEA may be required. Compliance or legal certifications are beneficial but not essential.

This position description is an outline of recurrent responsibilities. It is not intended to be all-inclusive of the work to be performed.

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