Compliance Manager, Management

Final date to receive applications: 25 October 2026

Department: Business Support

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Manchester, UK

Empowering organisations to achieve their highest potential. At ISOQAR, we draw on our experience, knowledge, and ambition to empower organisations to achieve their highest potential. As a UKAS-accredited certification body, we conduct audits against ISO standards and issue ISO certifications. Through a portfolio of progressive solutions, including ISO certification, training, and consultancy, we work with customers to strengthen their businesses, all delivered by our in-house experts.

The Compliance Manager leads the effective operation and continuous improvement of ISOQAR’s compliance framework and management system, ensuring certification activities meet accreditation, regulatory and internal requirements.

Working closely with the Director of Risk & Compliance and senior stakeholders, you’ll lead internal assurance, accreditation assessments, corrective actions, competence and impartiality controls, while providing clear insight into compliance performance and emerging risks. You’ll also manage day-to-day compliance priorities and support the development of compliance capability across the business.

• Lead the day-to-day operation of ISOQAR’s compliance function in line with agreed priorities.
• Develop and manage the annual compliance plan, objectives and improvement priorities.
• Translate accreditation, regulatory and governance requirements into practical business controls.
• Provide expert advice and constructive challenge to senior technical and operational stakeholders.
• Identify and elevate significant or systemic compliance risks.
• Deputise for the Director of Risk & Compliance on agreed matters.
• Allocate and prioritise compliance activity across available resources.

• Lead the maintenance and continuous improvement of ISOQAR’s management system.
• Ensure policies, procedures, governance arrangements and records remain controlled and compliant.
• Monitor changes to standards, accreditation requirements, legislation and mandatory documents.
• Lead impact assessments and oversee the delivery of resulting actions.
• Provide compliance oversight for new products, integrations and significant business-change projects.

• Own and manage ISOQAR’s risk-based internal audit programme.
• Set audit priorities and scopes, ensuring appropriate independence and competence.
• Conduct or oversee complex and cross-functional audits and investigations.
• Review audit findings, root‑cause analysis and corrective‑action plans.
• Monitor significant actions through to effective closure.
• Identify systemic issues and report assurance outcomes and emerging risks to relevant governance forums.

• Manage ISOQAR’s readiness for accreditation assessments.
• Coordinate assessments with technical and operational stakeholders.
• Ensure evidence submitted to accreditation bodies is accurate, controlled and appropriately approved.
• Lead responses to assessment findings and challenge inadequate corrective actions.
  
  Monitor findings through to formal acceptance and closure.
• Support engagement with UKAS and other accreditation or scheme‑owning bodies.

• Oversee the design and implementation of ISOQAR’s competence framework.
• Ensure appropriate competence criteria are in place across relevant functions, schemes and technical areas.
• Oversee learning materials, assessments, approval records and tests of understanding.
• Ensure personnel authorisations are supported by objective and traceable evidence.
• Review significant or disputed competence decisions.
• Analyse…