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Location

São Paulo, SP | Brazil

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Job description

Job Description

As our Compliance Officer Brazil you will lead the mission of driving a robust corporate culture that embraces integrity in our operations, consistent with the core values and principles of Biogen's Code of Conduct. This includes providing subject matter expertise and leadership on compliance-related matters within the organization and fostering a proactive compliance program and ensuring that the Affiliates follow through on implementing a plan to continuously assess and enhance processes, maintaining world-class controls that are effective in managing identified risks in a manner that are easily understood and applied.

The function is in charge of driving risk assessments in compliance, monitoring key control areas, ensuring that key stakeholders locally and regionally are informed on relevant risks and implementing remediation plans. As a member of the Affiliate's leadership teams, you will partner with the business to deliver sustainable business strategies, drive the right behaviors through communication and training, and is responsible for helping shape the external environment through driving industry-wide standards that are ethical and consistent with Biogen's core values. 

Key responsibilities, among others, are:

• Provide advice and guidance to the business on compliance matters, including interactions and practices with health care professionals, government officials, health care institutions, patients, and patient associations;
• Design and maintain the architecture and excellence in effectiveness of policies, procedures, and controls through continuous monitoring of operational effectiveness, assessment and redesign or enhancement as needed;
• Actively engage the leadership team in each applicable Affiliate in driving the tone from the top in integrity and leveraging communication cascaded to the organization to maintain a high level of awareness in ethical business conduct;
• Champions speak-up, transparency and a culture of integrity throughout the organization;
• Fully understand the complex landscape of global risk, reputational risk, local legal and regulatory risk, and local codes and ethics standards as it pertains to and impacts the activities conducted by the organization;
• Conduct periodic risk assessments to identify and rank risks to help define prioritization of resources and activities;
• Execute robust monitoring plans based on the risk assessment.

Qualifications

• Bachelors (equivalent) degree required;
• Minimum of 7 years working in compliance - additional experience in other governance areas, such as Legal, Finance, Quality, internal controls, or external or internal audit is highly desired ;
• Distinguished and strong experience in multinational healthcare industries (specialty care);
  • Rare Disease and biotech experience are highly appreciated;
  • Fluent Portuguese and English;
• Based in São Paulo as position is hybrid (2-3 times a week at the office is required);

Additional Information

• Has no direct team;
• Reports to Lead Compliance Officer - International;

Why Biogen?

Our mission to find therapies for neurological and rare diseases is a unique focus within our industry and this shared purpose is what connects us as a team. We work together to overcome obstacles and to follow the science. We are resilient as we strive to make an impact on our patients’ lives and on changing the course of medicine. Together, we pioneer. Together, we thrive.

At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts

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