Compliance and Ethics Lead, Italy

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The Role

We are now recruiting a Compliance and Ethics Lead, Italy (Office Based in Rome), who will be responsible responsible for leading Compliance & Ethics operations in Italy.  

The position will report to the Vice President of European Markets & Japan Compliance and Ethics and will also work closely with the BMS Compliance & Ethics Leadership Team, Italy’s Legal team, and with the market’s leadership team and key stakeholders.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Promote BMS’ Integrity Culture throughout the organization and partner with the leadership team to ensure a steadfast commitment by all employees to compliance and ethics.

• Maintain the compliance program components of Model 231 and serve as a member of the market’s Model 231 Vigilance Committee.

• Сo-Chair the Compliance Committee with the General Manager, liaising effectively with BMS’ Global C&E Organization.

• Drive execution of the market’s Compliance Risk Assessment in coordination with the Global C&E Organization Center of Excellence.  

• Partner well with the market Legal team as well as with other risk management functions such as BCF, EMCOE, HCP Transparency and Internal Audit to provide high quality guidance and support to the business.

• Participate in periodic internal audits, monitoring and due diligence activities in the market and, as appropriate, coordinate execution of follow-up actions.

• Periodically conduct compliance investigations requiring local C&E support.

• Develop & ensure oversight for compliance procedures, education, communications, and monitoring & analytics in close cooperation with the Global C&E Organization.

• Maintain knowledge of business and markets and compliance trends in the industry to identify and mitigate potential compliance risks.

• Represent BMS Compliance at local market industry associations compliance and ethics working groups and subcommittees.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills Required

• Preferred Law Degree

• 7+ years of experience in compliance or legal in a highly regulated industry with at least 5 years of pharmaceutical industry legal and/or compliance experience. 

• Superior personal integrity and ethics, including an exceptional sense of discretion.

• Effective communicator with a demonstrated ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders.

• Strong strategic-thinking skills with an ability to identify and recommend process improvements and best practices.

• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects under deadline pressure with flexibility to work on a broad range of matters.

• Ability to discuss controversial topics with senior executive leadership and obtain their buy-in and support.

• Italian language fluency and excellent written and spoken English required.

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What’s important to us

Employees are expected to display the BMS Values, which move us toward our mission to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases:

Passion: Our dedication to learning and excellence helps us to deliver exceptional results.

Innovation: We pursue disruptive and bold solutions for patients.

Urgency: We move together with speed and quality because patients are waiting.

Accountability: We all own BMS’ success and strive to be transparent and deliver on our commitments.

Integrity: We demonstrate ethics, integrity, and quality in everything we do for patients, customers, and colleagues.

Inclusion: We embrace diversity and foster an environment where we can all work together at our full potential.

We have a passion for tackling the toughest diseases, which inspires innovation and speed in our daily work and a sense of accountability to the patients we serve.

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Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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