Director, Compliance Risk Assurance

From the operating room to surgery centers—and everywhere in between—KARL STORZ North America is a global leader in medical technology and advanced visualization solutions. We design specialty innovations, smart instruments and devices, integrated ecosystems, and intelligent imaging—to build a more connected, software-enabled operating room.

From the operating room to surgery centers—and everywhere in between—KARL STORZ North America is a global leader in medical technology and advanced visualization solutions. We design specialty innovations, smart instruments and devices, integrated ecosystems, and intelligent imaging—to build a more connected, software-enabled operating room.

As an independent, family-owned Med Tech company, we ambitiously think in generations instead of quarters to improve patients' lives around the world.

KARL STORZ is seeking a strategic and hands-on leader to oversee and evolve our North America Compliance Risk Assurance program. This critical leadership role is responsible for compliance auditing, monitoring, data analytics, risk assessment, and healthcare transparency reporting across the organization.

As Director, Compliance Risk Assurance
, you will lead a high-performing team that provides independent, risk-based assurance and actionable insights to strengthen compliance, improve business processes, and protect organizational value. Success in this role requires deep compliance expertise, strong leadership capabilities, analytical rigor, and the ability to build trusted partnerships across all levels of the organization.

• Lead the development and execution of a comprehensive risk-based compliance audit and monitoring program.
• Establish audit, monitoring, and risk assurance methodologies, standards, and reporting practices.
• Develop annual audit and monitoring plans based on risk assessments, compliance trends, investigations, and regulatory developments.
• Oversee audits, monitoring activities, field observations, and live-event reviews to evaluate compliance program effectiveness.
• Ensure timely reporting of findings, corrective actions, and remediation progress to key stakeholders and senior leadership.

• Lead enterprise compliance risk assessments and mitigation planning efforts.
• Facilitate risk workshops, stakeholder interviews, and control evaluations across the business.
• Partner with business, legal, and compliance leaders to identify emerging risks and strengthen controls.
• Coordinate assurance activities with internal and external stakeholders to optimize coverage and reduce duplication.
• Present risk insights, trends, and recommendations to senior management and governance committees.

• Drive the strategy and implementation of compliance analytics and technology solutions.
• Develop dashboards, key risk indicators, and reporting tools that identify trends, anomalies, and potential compliance issues.
• Leverage data to provide actionable insights that enhance compliance program effectiveness and support business objectives.
• Evaluate monitoring results and root causes to recommend sustainable process improvements and risk mitigation strategies.

• Oversee federal and state healthcare transparency reporting programs, including Open Payments and aggregate spend requirements.
• Ensure accurate, complete, and timely submission of all required disclosures.
• Manage data quality controls, reconciliations, and transaction verification processes.
• Partner with Finance, Commercial Operations, and external vendors to resolve reporting issues and improve processes.
• Monitor regulatory developments and implement enhancements…