Senior Director Ethics & Compliance

About Lilly

Lilly is a global pharmaceutical company dedicated to uniting caring with discovery to improve lives worldwide. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, the company's over 50,000 employees globally work to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, enhance health understanding, and support communities. This work is demanding and purposeful, focusing on patient needs.

Role Overview

The Senior Director - Ethics & Compliance for KSA is responsible for integrating high performance with high integrity within Lilly KSA. This full-time role, based in Riyadh, involves partnering with the KSA Management Team, ICH, IBU, and Global E&C Teams to implement the Global 7 elements E&C Program and foster a Speak Up Culture in KSA. The position requires over 10 years of experience and involves providing expert Ethics and Compliance guidance on affiliate strategies, decisions, and activities, including risk assessment, policies, communications, training, and monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with and influence leadership to integrate key elements of an effective compliance program into local governance, decision forums, business processes, and training.
• Ensure reliable controls are established and understood by the business to address existing and emerging risk areas.
• Work with the KSA E&C Manager to develop and implement dynamic compliance risk assessments and integrate mitigating measures into business processes.
• Support E&C procedure localization and provide input for global procedure updates.
• Contribute to developing and driving monitoring plans, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive actions in collaboration with other functions.
• Actively participate in key E&C meetings and engage with business partners.
• Seek external perspectives to enhance E&C capabilities and business partnership through process improvements and technology leverage.
• Drive E&C-related compliance communications and training for the business.
• Communicate the 'state of control' effectively to leadership teams.
• Ensure business processes and operational procedures align with Global Policies and Standards.
• Lead, with the CFO, the implementation and follow-up of CAS audits at the local level.
• Influence business discussions and decisions to consistently incorporate ethics and compliance elements, ensuring clear business ownership of ethics.
• Influence leadership and business practices through effective communication of internal policies/standards and external environment risks.
• Foster an open and collaborative environment that promotes teamwork and integrity.
• Collaborate with other ECOs from ICH to improve capabilities, mitigate regional risks, and establish E&C Strategy in the region.
• Lead compliance review and agreement development for new business development deals.
• Represent Lilly in local industry associations and interactions with regulators.
• Coach and develop direct report(s) and other E&C personnel.

Candidate Requirements

• Demonstrated history of operating with integrity, with no compliance violations in the last 12 months.
• Proven ability to consistently apply sound judgment for quality business decisions.
• Ability to proactively and collaboratively influence decisions and outcomes.
• Capability to effectively communicate, lead, embrace, and drive change across all organizational levels.
• Strong strategic and critical thinking skills, with the ability to operationalize strategy effectively.
• Ability to translate ambiguity and complexity into meaningful actions.
• Adept at working across boundaries and influencing without direct authority.
• Strong business knowledge and leadership skills, including critical thinking, detail orientation, results focus, and a reputation for integrity and sound judgment.