Business Ethics Director - Region: Italy And Greece, Cyprus & Israel Milano

Business Ethics Director - Region: Italy And Greece, Cyprus & Israel
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Are you ready to lead and innovate in a dynamic, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company?

Ipsen is a growing global specialty-driven biopharmaceutical company focused on innovation and specialty care. We aim to make a sustainable difference by significantly improving patients' health and quality of life, providing effective therapeutic solutions for unmet medical needs through differentiated and innovative medicines in Oncology, Neurosciences, and Rare Diseases.

**Why Ipsen?

- ** Patient-Focused**: The patient is at the heart of everything we do, and improving their outcomes is the deliverable of every strategy.

- ** Employee Care**: We care for our employees, who are the ambassadors making a real difference.

- ** Bold Leadershi**p: We attract and develop bold, agile, entrepreneurial individuals who take full ownership of their decisions.

- ** Growth Opportunities**: We offer a wealth of fulfilling challenges and growth opportunities in a fast-moving, game-changing organization.

**About the Role

The **Business Ethics Director** will drive the evolution and enhancement of the Ipsen Business Ethics Program for Italy, and Greece, Cyprus & Israel. In so doing, you will guide ethical and compliant decision making, conduct of activities, working with and in the leadership teams to shape an ethical culture within the Region.

You will work in partnership with the leadership teams of Italy and Greece to:

- Understand and anticipate the business needs and evolution

- Drive and maintain ethics and compliance governance including compliance committees and support to process owners.

- Provides input and advice in the development of annual Country Operational Plans.

- Provide input on local code rules, processes and more particularly provides all necessary support for the program's effective enforcement.

- Identify and mitigate ethics and compliance risks

- Implement and enhance the business ethics program including procedural documents, training and communication, and supports investigations

- Guide ethical and compliant decision-making and conduct of activities

- Coordinates, mediates and facilitates resolution and decision making of ethics and compliance related matters between global functions and countries for globally initiated activities; conducts Annual Risk Assessment

**Qualifications

**Ideal**: Bachelors or other appropriate third level qualifications

**Experience**:

- Proven experience in an ethics and compliance department in the pharmaceutical industry

- Experience and knowledge of local code, laws and regulations in Italy and Greece

- Knowledge of European and other important extraterritorial laws and regulations in the healthcare sector

- Knowledge of anti-bribery and anti-corruption controls environments

- Previous experience in audit/monitoring and investigations

- Experience in regional or global roles is a plus

**Languages**:

- Italian

- English

- Other languages, such as Greek, are a plus External stakeholder management

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