Strategic Legal Compliance Manager

About the Role

Are you ready to shape the future of legal compliance across a truly global organization? As Strategic Legal Compliance Manager, you’ll lead a global compliance team and play a key role in developing and continuously strengthening our global compliance governance framework and Compliance Management System. You’ll translate regulatory developments and compliance risks into clear governance, risk methodologies, controls, strategic priorities, systems and reporting standards. By connecting these elements, you’ll help create a consistent, scalable and future-ready foundation for effective compliance management across the organization.

GLOBAL COMPLIANCE GOVERNANCE & REGULATORY INTELLIGENCE

You’ll shape and continuously develop our global compliance governance framework, including policies, standards and clear governance principles. You’ll establish a consistent approach to regulatory intelligence, ensuring that relevant developments are identified, assessed and translated into practical compliance requirements, priorities and controls.

COMPLIANCE RISK & CONTROLS

You’ll develop and maintain our global compliance risk framework, taxonomy and assessment methodology, creating a consistent approach to identifying, assessing, prioritizing and treating compliance risks. You’ll translate regulatory requirements and identified risks into clear global controls and standards and continuously strengthen the overall control framework.

COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM & STRATEGY

You’ll play a key role in developing and continuously enhancing our global Compliance Management System, ensuring that regulatory requirements, risks, policies, controls and reporting work together as one integrated framework. Based on regulatory developments, emerging risks and organizational needs, you’ll help define strategic compliance priorities and translate them into clear objectives, initiatives and roadmaps.

KPIs, REPORTING, SYSTEMS & TOOLS

You’ll develop meaningful compliance KPIs and reporting standards that provide transparency on compliance risks, performance and maturity. You’ll help shape global compliance reports, dashboards and management information, providing senior stakeholders with reliable and decision-relevant insights. You’ll also drive the development of compliance systems, tools and data-driven processes, identifying opportunities to simplify, standardize and digitalize the way compliance is managed globally.

STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION & FRAMEWORK ENABLEMENT

As a global compliance subject-matter expert, you’ll work closely with Legal, Finance, HR, IT, Internal Audit and other relevant functions to embed our compliance framework consistently across the organization. You’ll provide practical methodologies, standards and guidance that enable regional and local teams to implement global requirements effectively. You’ll promote alignment, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across functions and markets and collaborate with external advisors where specialist expertise is required.

TEAM LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT

You’ll lead, develop and empower a team of compliance professionals, creating clarity around priorities, objectives, roles and responsibilities. Through direction, coaching and regular feedback, you’ll strengthen individual capabilities and ownership while building the team’s expertise across compliance governance, regulatory intelligence, risk management, controls, systems and reporting. You’ll foster a collaborative and accountable environment focused on continuous improvement, knowledge sharing and innovation.

Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience in compliance governance, compliance risk management and Compliance Management Systems within an international environment.
• Proven leadership experience, including leading and developing teams of compliance, legal, risk or governance professionals.
• Strong understanding of global compliance frameworks, regulatory requirements, governance principles and regulatory intelligence.
• Proven experience in developing compliance risk taxonomies, risk assessment methodologies, governance frameworks and risk treatment approaches.
• Strong ability to translate complex regulatory requirements and compliance risks into practical and scalable policies, standards, controls and business requirements.
• Strong understanding of compliance control frameworks and methodologies for assessing control design and effectiveness.
• Experience designing, implementing or improving global Compliance Management Systems.
• Experience developing strategic compliance priorities, KPIs, management reporting and global compliance statements.
• Experience implementing and enhancing compliance systems, tools and data-driven processes.
• Strong conceptual, analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to connect regulation, risk, governance, controls, systems and reporting.
• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder-management and influencing skills.
• Proven ability to lead complex global initiatives and drive standardization and continuous improvement across functions and jurisdictions.
• Strong project and priority-management skills in a dynamic international environment.
• High level of integrity, sound judgment and commitment to ethical business practices.

Compensation

Due to legal reasons, we are obliged to disclose the minimum salary according to the collective agreement for this position, which is € 3.560 gross per month. However, our attractive compensation package is based on market-oriented salaries and is therefore significantly above the stated minimum salary.

Diversity & Inclusion

As an employer, we value diversity and support people in developing their potential and strengths, realizing their ideas and seizing opportunities. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, skin colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or origin.