Compliance Partner

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Job Mission

As the Compliance Partner at Roche Egypt, you play a pivotal role in embedding Roche's Compliance strategic framework & management systems within the Egyptian affiliate. Acting as a trusted advisor and strategic partner for the business leads, you ensure that ethical principles and compliance standards are seamlessly integrated into daily business operations. You will partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders across Commercial, Medical, Finance, HR, and IT to foster a culture of integrity, accountability, and transparency—enabling sustainable business impact and patient trust.

Your Impact

Embed and Elevate the Compliance Framework

• Translate Roche Group compliance policies and local requirements into pragmatic, fit-for-purpose processes and SOPs for the affiliate.

• Maintain and update compliance SOPs, process maps and living documentation to reflect regulatory changes, industry codes, and internal expectations.

• Identify gaps between policy and practice and lead corrective/change initiatives to raise the compliance maturity of the affiliate.

• Establish practical control measures and periodic review cycles to ensure sustained compliance effectiveness.

Compliance Culture & Capability Building

• Drive a culture of integrity and ethical decision-making across all functions.

• Design and implement comprehensive compliance learning programs — including onboarding, refresher sessions, and targeted training — to build awareness and accountability at all organizational levels.

• Partner with business leaders to embed compliance principles into everyday practices, ensuring alignment between policy and behavior.

• Foster open dialogue and a "speak-up" mindset, encouraging employees to raise concerns without fear of retaliation.

• Promote collaboration and shared ownership of compliance outcomes through continuous engagement, communication, and recognition of best practices.

• Act as a visible role model, reinforcing Roche's values of integrity, courage, and passion in all interactions.

• Create a yearly training roadmap aligned to risk-profile, new regulations, and business priorities (onboarding, refresher, role-based modules, e-learning).

• Develop training materials, facilitator guides and assessment tools; coordinate delivery (in-person and virtual) and logistics.

• Track training completion and comprehension metrics, escalate non-compliance in training uptake, and drive remediation.

• Use post-training feedback and performance data to iterate and improve content and delivery format.

Risk Assessment & Compliance Monitoring

• Lead periodic compliance risk assessments across functions to identify, rank and prioritize risks based on likelihood and business impact

• Design and implement monitoring controls (sample testing, transaction reviews, KPI dashboards) to detect compliance gaps early.

• Prepare the affiliate for internal and external audits by ensuring documentation, evidence and controls are inspection-ready.

• Coordinate follow-up activities post-audit, track remediation plans, and verify closure of findings.

Business Enablement & Partnership

• Serve as the first point of contact for day-to-day compliance queries from Commercial, Medical, Finance, HR, IT and other teams.

• Evaluate business requests against Roche Code of Conduct, local laws, SOPs and industry codes; provide clear, practical recommendations.

• Support contract review interactions with Legal, and coordinate external legal advice when specialist interpretation is required.

• Translate complex regulatory requirements into succinct guidance and decision-trees the business can apply immediately.

Compliance Documentation & Reporting Framework

• Maintain a consolidated repository of compliance activities, SOP versions, training records, and evidence of monitoring.

• Define and report key compliance metrics (e.g., training completion, risk mitigation status, monitoring results, open findings) to management and regional compliance.

• Produce timely management reports and dashboards that highlight trends, emerging risks and progress against remediation plans.

• Use metrics to influence senior stakeholders and to prioritize resources for highest-risk areas.

Incident Management & Data Integrity

• Co-lead with the investigation committee, management and Legal consultant in the local handling of alleged non-compliance and integrity investigations, ensuring end to end effective process execution and confidentiality.

• Coordinate all the relevant documentation and follow-up actions; recommend disciplinary or remedial steps based on policies and facts.

• Support data privacy activities in coordination with the Data Privacy Coordinator to ensure personal data handling complies with applicable requirements.

Enable Compliance Governance 

• Participate in the design of preventive and detective controls; help pilots and test controls for feasibility and effectiveness.

• Evaluate control performance and recommend optimization or automation opportunities to improve reliability and efficiency.

• Work with IT and process owners to integrate controls into business workflows and relevant systems where feasible.

Who You Are

– You hold a Bachelor's degree in BA, Law, Finance, Life Sciences or any related field. A Master's degree or further specialization in Compliance, Risk, or Corporate Governance is a strong plus.

– You bring 2–4 years of experience in legal, audit or compliance or any related control functions, ideally within healthcare, biotech or diagnostics industry or related regulated industry; "Tobacco, Oil & Gas or Telecom". 

– You act as the reliable partner to the business leaders, by role modeling ethical decision-making as well as advising business owners towards translating compliance principles into daily practice.

– You are an effective communicator who leads with empathy, and credibility so as to influence the business outcomes in line with the compliance strategic vision.

– You combine strong analytical abilities with practical judgment to assess risks, interpret regulations, and develop actionable, business-relevant recommendations. 

– You are curious, adaptable & resilient, where you have the ability to lead through an ambiguous business environment to ensure a sustainable ethical culture.

– You embody the Roche leadership commitments as a Visionary, Architect, Catalyst, and Coach—. You live our core values of Passion, Integrity, and Courage, creating an environment where people thrive and patients benefit.

Global Grade: SE6 

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Let's build a healthier future, together.

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