Job Title: Head of Compliance

Salary: £65k to £75k pa (depending on experience)

Location: East Midlands

Reference: J3177

Contact: George Thompson

Telephone: 0141 647 6688

Categories: Print, Management, Midlands


A leading print and communications company is on the search for someone 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.  

You will manage the compliance department to:

Maintain Registers of Legislation, 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

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

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


Our client takes the adherence to GDPR laws extremely seriously. It is important that candidates have experience with handling all data confidentially and only disclosing it on a need to know basis. Being aware that some data may be especially sensitive and is the subject of our client’s specific organisational policy, including personal information and business information such as contract prices and terms. In line with national legislation, and organisational policy, candidates must have experience in processing data in a fair and lawful way, for the specific registered purpose and not disclosed in any way incompatible with such purpose or to any unauthorised persons or organisations.      


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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.

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