Senior Compliance Manager, Pharmaceuticals – Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Purpose Statement

The Compliance Manager is a leader within the Local Affiliate Management Teams for Pharmaceuticals businesses and reports through the AbbVie Office of Ethics & Compliance (OEC) Organization. He/she is responsible for providing leadership and direct oversight for AbbVie’s compliance program.

Summary Of Job Description

• The Compliance Manager is responsible for direct oversight of the Affiliate’s Compliance Program covering Pharmaceuticals and Eye Care.
• The Compliance Manager role will include the continued enhancement of the Local Compliance Program by executing through collaborative interactions, risk assessments, monitoring for continuous improvement, recommending effective controls and processes, and creating and delivering compliance training. The role will also include the management of local compliance policies.
• The role will cover Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.
  
  

Major Responsibilities

• Provide strategic advice, guidance, and support local codes (e.g., Pharma, SAPI, and Prema) and regional/international industry codes (e.g., IFPMA), government regulations including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other initiatives.
• Continue to enhance a best-in-class compliance program in partnership with the Affiliate Management Teams (AMT) including leading Compliance Insights Forums (CIF) to support AbbVie’s business.
• Perform the following responsibilities in partnership with Affiliate Management Team. Partners with all levels of key affiliate divisional business functions to:
• Provide Ethics & Compliance advice on routine and complex business programs
• Implement, manage, and interpret policies, procedures and practices across all functions in the Affiliate
• Perform compliance risk assessment, trend analysis and best practice recommendations
• Develop, implement, and coordinate awareness, education and training programs that focus on the elements of the Affiliate Compliance Program, CoBC, policies and procedures
• Direct and participate in Affiliate CIF meetings.
• Provide guidance on proposed commercial and medical programs, identifies legal, regulatory, or other relevant issues referring matters to respective departments, analyzes alternatives and proposes solutions to the business
• Organize ethics and compliance records, document and file and maintain document databases
• Participate in local Industry group meetings, when applicable, identifying changes and trends on the external environment, communicating to AMT and OEC Director and implementing necessary changes
• Develop, implement, modify and execute Affiliate monitoring plan to ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
• Implement and execute Affiliate Internal Investigations’ Procedure. Coordinates internal Investigations, communicating with Corporate OEC as necessary.
• Develop, implement, modify and execute Affiliate local system for reporting, responding to concerns as well as corrective actions. Oversee the tracking and trending and propose recommendations for corrective actions.
• Assist Affiliate on compliance audits, oversees the fulfillment of auditors’ requests, acts as liaison between business and auditors during on site activities, evaluates and responds to all basic and routine preliminary findings and recommendations, guides the business in preparing corrective action to address basic and routine findings and recommendations, and ensures timely completion.
• Possesses working knowledge of AbbVie’s business and client areas supported.
  
  

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree qualifications. Finance, Audit, Business, Legal or equivalent work experience strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 6 years of professional experience with, or exposure to, business functions such as Compliance, Audit, Finance, Legal, Regulatory Affairs, Government Affairs
• Experience in Pharmaceutical, medical devices and healthcare Industry preferred.
• Integrity
• Customer orientation
• Problem-solving
• Communication
• Strong negotiation / influencing skills
• Adaptation
• Ability to work in multicultural teams
  
  

Additional Information

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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