Manager, India Hub Corporate Compliance

Role Summary:
The Manager, Corporate Compliance supports the India Hub Compliance Team by managing compliance projects, governance, and operations to foster business ethics and integrity. This role ensures effective project management, timely delivery, strong documentation, and stakeholder coordination, enabling leaders to address strategic priorities and key compliance risks. This role coordinates the rollout and administration of compliance policies and procedures, supports issue intake and remediation follow‑up, and partners with relevant stakeholders to deliver effective compliance communications and trainings.
Role Responsibilities:
1. Compliance Project & Program Management:

• Lead and coordinate cross‑functional compliance initiatives, including policy adherence, risk management, training programs, compliance champions, proactive monitoring, and system/process enhancements to promote a strong culture of integrity and compliance.
• Develop, maintain, and govern detailed project plans, timelines, trackers, and milestones to ensure timely, high‑quality delivery of all compliance initiatives.
• Proactively track project dependencies, risks, issues, and mitigation actions, escalating concerns as appropriate to ensure effective risk management.
• Support the planning, execution, and post‑implementation follow‑up for large‑scale and regional compliance programs, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

2. Governance, Forums & Leadership Support:

• Support the preparation and coordination of market governance forums, including Market Risk and Compliance Committees, country leadership forums, and Audit Committees.
• Lead planning, documentation, action tracking, and closure of compliance‑related discussions, ensuring clarity, accountability, and timely follow‑through.
• Maintain a well‑structured and auditable repository of governance materials, decisions, and action items to support effective oversight and leadership decision‑making.

3. Compliance Operations & Process Enablement

• Coordinate the development, implementation, governance, and certification of compliance policies and program activities, ensuring controlled, auditable documentation and ongoing alignment with legal requirements, internal standards, and the organization's ethical principles, in partnership with key functional stakeholders.
• Drive operational readiness for policy implementation and market‑specific compliance initiatives, ensuring clarity, alignment, and effective execution.
• Support core compliance operations, including transparency reporting and other recurring processes, through structured coordination, tracking, and governance.
• Strengthen process consistency across the India Compliance organization by standardizing templates, SOPs, and playbooks to enable efficiency and scalability.

4. Compliance Advice, Investigations & Remediation

• Enable timely compliance guidance by coordinating requests, gathering relevant facts and documentation, and facilitating responses from Compliance/Legal; maintain an auditable record of inquiries/documentation/information and outcomes while maintaining confidentiality.
• Track remediation commitments and support verification that deficiencies are corrected by collecting completion evidence, coordinating validation/testing with control owners as applicable, and maintaining timely closure reporting for compliance leadership and governance forums.

5. Risk, Monitoring & Quality Support

• Support the execution and follow‑up of proactive risk assessments, mitigation plans, and quality improvement initiatives to strengthen the overall compliance framework.
• Coordinate and participate in monitoring activities, including remediation actions and evidence collection, to ensure issues are addressed effectively.
• Track, consolidate, and support the preparation of periodic reports and presentations to enable clear visibility for compliance leadership and governance forums.
• Analyze compliance program metrics and trends (e.g., training completion, monitoring outcomes, issue/remediation cycle times) to identify themes, assess effectiveness, and recommend targeted improvements.
• Coordinate and support functional compliance program audits and assessments, including planning, evidence collection, issue tracking, and action plan follow-up, to ensure sustainable control implementation.

6. Training, Communication & Culture Enablement

• Support the effective execution of the compliance training andcommunications calendar, including creating training content, conducting training, tracking completion, and maintaining accurate documentation.
• Analyze compliance program metrics and trends (e.g., training completion, monitoring outcomes, issue/remediation cycle times) to identify themes, assess effectiveness, and recommend targeted improvements.
• Assist with the rollout of Compliance Culture and Speak Up initiatives, ensuring consistent execution, coordination, and reporting across the market.
• Support and continuously enhance compliance communications, training, presentations, and dashboards to drive clear leadership visibility, employee engagement, and reinforcement of all core elements of the companywide compliance program (standards & procedures, training, reporting/speak-up, monitoring/auditing reinforcement, etc).

7. Regulatory & Industry Intelligence

• Maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, and industry guidance impacting the compliance program-including financial, advertising, and marketing requirements-and translate regulatory changes into practical updates to policies, training, and controls.

8. Stakeholder Coordination & Officer Efficiency

• Act as the primary coordination hub between Compliance, business teams, enabling functions, and global/regional stakeholders on operational matters.
• Ensure alignment across compliance projects through effective planning, prioritization, and coordination of interdependencies.

Key Outputs/ Success Measures:

• Timely and high‑quality execution of compliance projects and initiatives
• Strong governance hygiene (clear documentation, action tracking, closure)
• Improved operational efficiency and predictability for the Compliance Team
• Positive feedback from Compliance Leaders and business stakeholders
• Measurable progress on risk mitigation, QMS actions, and program delivery

Qualifications:

• University Degree in Law, Finance, Audit, Business Management with strong academic background.
• 5-8 years of professional experience in Compliance, Legal, Audit, Business Operations, Consulting and/or Program Management.
• Comprehensive understanding of the local regulatory environment (as it relates to compliance), relevant international and local laws, Anti-Corruption Laws, Industry Codes of Practice, guidelines, regulations, US FCPA, UCPMP, as well as applicable Pfizer policies and procedures (for internal candidates only).
• Strong preference for experience with pharmaceutical/healthcare industry/ multinational companies.
• Advanced knowledge of the principles and concepts in healthcare compliance and risk management.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills in English.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem solving and strategic thinking skills; with ability to see the big picture as well as the detailed and specific relationships between business topics.
• Ability to summarize and articulate complex concepts clearly and efficiently.
• Ability to partner with key in-market stakeholders to support management of key risks.
• Ability to understand foreign cultures and sensibilities and to communicate effectively in a global environment.
• Self-directed and self-motivated, with the ability to identify opportunities and associated solutions and work both autonomously and as part of a team to resolve complex matters.
• Demonstrated leadership and collaboration skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and priorities in a fast-paced, evolving work environment.
• High level of organization and efficiency with demonstrated attention to detail

• Candidate must uphold high ethical standards, strong personal values, and the ability to consistently model integrity in decision‑making and execution.

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