Compliance Director, Amgen India

Compliance Director, Amgen India

Amgen’s Worldwide Compliance and Business Ethics Department has built a highly qualified and motivated team of professionals who bring high levels of integrity, respect, experience, talent, perseverance, intelligence, creativity, energy, and passion to work as effective contributors within the company.

Reporting to the Associate Vice-President of Compliance for Global Functions, the Compliance Director will join the Amgen India site leadership team supporting all aspects of Amgen’s Worldwide Compliance and Business Ethics (WC&BE) Program at Amgen India. This compliance leader will ultimately assume leadership responsibility for all Amgen compliance capabilities established and the Amgen India capabilities center.

The applicant will:

• Support Amgen’s compliance leadership team in providing strategic advice pertaining to global compliance program framework.
• Help develop global compliance capabilities out of Amgen India office (e.g., policy improvement, training governance, monitoring activities, investigation procedures).
• Help develop and measure implementation strategies to develop and integrate the Amgen compliance program at Amgen India including; the Amgen compliance monitoring and auditing plans, develop and support robust compliance training program, provide support as needed for compliance investigations, interpret and apply Amgen compliance policies.
• Support Amgen India mid and senior level leaders execute corporate compliance priorities.
• Develop and maintain working knowledge of Amgen’s Global Compliance Policies and Standard Operating Procedures.
• Develop and maintain working knowledge and understanding all applicable laws and codes regulating Amgen activities with government officials and the healthcare community (e.g., Prevention of Corruption Act, OPPI, UCPMP).
• Access various Amgen source systems (e.g., SAP, Concur, C3) to gather information required to make assessments impacting our training and monitoring activities.

• Co-chair compliance steering committee with Amgen India Managing Director focused on building compliance program controls and risk mitigation plans in response to: key compliance program metrics (e.g., investigations, monitoring, training), emerging business activities material to Amgen India, developments in external environment that have impact on compliance program.

• Draft and deploy local compliance policies and procedures to address functional tactics / activities being carried out with members of the healthcare community and/or government officials that are incremental to our global compliance requirements (due to nuances in local regulations / codes).
• Design and disseminate local compliance training modules and awareness messages designed to support executional alignment with Amgen policies and procedures.
• Develop and support execution of local compliance monitoring framework based on outcomes emanating from compliance risk assessment.
• Provide strategic compliance support on the following topics: interactions with government officials, protection of personal information, presence at external conferences, global commercial tactics with members of the healthcare community, conflicts of interest, confidential information, business conduct hotline, compliance culture / mindset and other code of conduct matters.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree and 14 to 16 years of Information Systems experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 16 to 18 years of Information Systems experience
• Minimum of 12 or more years working in a corporate advisory or procedural support role with significant experience in operational controls for Global Capabilities Centers.
• Strong communications skills including English fluency.
• Experience in building compliance controls, processes, policies, and requirements with particular emphasis on anti-corruption, conflict of interest, compliance investigations, and corporate monitoring.

Preferred Qualifications

• Significant experience in developing compliance controls for Global Capabilities Centers in the biopharmaceutical industry.
• Experience in advising and counseling at the corporate executive level.
• Fluency in emerging areas of technology such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, and risk assessment tools.