Compliance Officer - Pakistan

Job Summary

The Pakistan Compliance Officer is accountable for partnering with the Pakistan General Manager and senior leaders to enable the business to deliver business ambitions in a sustainable and compliant manner through influencing the right behaviors, 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 Pharma business in Pakistan.

Key Responsibilities

• Works with GSK leaders to ensure the effective implementation a compliance programme within Pakistan to prevent, detect, and correct violations of company policy, including continued embedding of enterprise risk mitigation programs, including Commercial Practices, Anti-bribery and Corruption, and Privacy.

• Partners with business leaders to proactively identify, evaluate and manage risks in accordance with GSK’s internal control framework and in a way, that enables and protect sustainable business growth.

• Manage internal reporting and escalation of issues that Pakistan may face.

• Partnering with 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.

• Partnering with the Internal Audit and Compliance Monitoring teams to support internal audits and compliance monitoring activities for the Pakistan business.

• Implementation of global compliance programs by translating global requirements into local specifications, including any relevant training.

• Advises senior leaders in the business on 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 and all applicable compliance programs.

• Supporting the creation and implementation of local Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPAs) coming from internal audits, internal & external investigations, Independent Business Monitoring.

• Acts as a change leader for simplification, where appropriate, to simplify the complexity of practices while maintaining adherence to GSK policy.

Education, Experience & Skills

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Law, Risk Management, Life Sciences or a related field.

• Minimum 5–7 years’ experience in Compliance and/or Risk Management; prefer pharma with compliance, otherwise FMCG/medical devices in similar compliance roles.

• Strong knowledge of corporate governance, internal control frameworks, and relevant local/international compliance regulations (e.g. anti-bribery, privacy, commercial practices).

• Proven experience providing pragmatic compliance and risk advice to senior leaders and partnering with cross-functional, matrixed teams to embed compliant ways of working.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with high integrity, sound judgement, independence, confidentiality, and a strong continuous-improvement mindset.

• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting investigations, CAPAs and remediation activities in collaboration with HR, Legal and other control functions to address compliance issues.

Skills

Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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