Head of Compliance

A leading player in its field is looking to fill the key role of Head of Compliance. The key purpose of this role will be to ensure the Company is compliant with current, applicable; International Standards (9001, 14001, 22301, 27001), Health and Safety legislation; and other standards to which the company is certified and other requirements.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain Registers of Legislation and other requirements, particularly Environmental, Data Protection, and Health & Safety
• Monitor new and proposed legislation
• Audit compliance on a regular basis and report non-conformance to the Directors
• Ensure the department maintains management systems to comply with ISO 9001, 14001, 22301, 27001, CPAS, FSC/PEFC and Health and Safety Legislation
• Help the company work towards ISO 45001
• Work with management to formulate company policies and procedures
• Plan direct and co-ordinate employee awareness of company policies and procedures
• Plan, direct and co-ordinate the quality assurance activities undertaken and to be the catalyst in developing, promoting, implementing and maintaining a quality improvement programme.
• Assist top management to identify, assess and mitigate operational, strategic and reputational risk
• Maintain a Risk Register, Risk Treatment Plans and Business Impact Analysis
• Promote a risk-based management culture
• Maintain a schedule of internal audits
• Ensure internal Auditors carry out and report on planned audits
• Ensure that non-conformances and arising preventative actions are tracked and closed
• Manage external surveillance, due diligence and insurance assessor visits
• Manage procedures to effectively investigate incidents and accidents ensuring that root cause and preventative actions are adequately identified
• Report activity weekly to the Management Team
• Report on activity, KPIs and trends to the Board

As a member of the Management Team:

• Monitor the impact of customer and operational activity on compliance and risk management
• Raise awareness of incidents and accident investigation facilitating resolution
• Set annual objectives

Experience within the digital space is vital for this role. A background in manufacturing is also highly important. Working knowledge of the financial services industry on top of digital and manufacturing would set you above all competition.

Our client’s compliance team consists of 2 other individuals. They are looking for a strong people manager who can let these individuals flourish, but also drive behind the scenes.

Finding someone who ticks the above boxes is key, however organisational fit is equally as important for our client.

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This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –

George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.