Compliance Program Manager

Company: Smith & Nephew
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Overview

As Compliance Operations Manager, you will shape and continuously improve our global Compliance Programme, ensuring integrity while supporting business success. You will lead strategic initiatives, influence stakeholders across functions, and deliver programmes that boost compliance awareness, effectiveness, and engagement. You will balance operational excellence with continuous improvement, simplifying processes and enhancing systems. This role offers the chance to drive governance, communications, and training at a global scale, impacting how compliance operates across the organisation.

Pay / Benefits

  • generous annual bonus and pension schemes
  • Save As You Earn share options
  • flexible vacation and time off
  • paid holidays and paid volunteering hours
  • private health and dental plans
  • hybrid working model

Responsibilities

  • lead and continuously improve the global Compliance Programme
  • identify opportunities to simplify processes and enhance systems
  • own communications, training, and governance initiatives
  • develop and deliver multi-year compliance roadmaps
  • oversee reporting activities and ensure accessibility and effectiveness of tools, policies, and guidance
  • measure programme success and support leadership reporting
  • drive projects that strengthen compliance operations across the organisation

Key requirements

  • significant experience in a highly regulated environment
  • proven success leading complex, cross-functional programmes from design to implementation and measurement
  • strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
  • excellent communication, governance, continuous improvement, and project management capabilities
  • sound judgement and a risk-based mindset
  • stakeholder management
  • influencing and credibility building
  • clear communication
  • governance
  • continuous improvement
  • project management

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Posted: October 17th, 2026