Director, Global Corporate Compliance Operations

Overview Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) is offering an exciting opportunity for the Director, Global Corporate Compliance Operations. This full-time role reports to the Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and is responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously improving the global operational infrastructure that enables a scalable, business-anchored, and forward-looking corporate compliance program across Waters.

This role translates global compliance strategy into practical processes, systems, governance, training, reporting, and operational capabilities that can be consistently deployed across regions while accommodating applicable local requirements and business needs.

Responsibilities Lead the operational execution of the global Corporate Compliance program, translating compliance strategy into scalable global processes, systems, tools, and governance structures.

Develop and maintain a global compliance operating model that establishes enterprise business-anchored standards while allowing appropriate flexibility for regional and local requirements.

Establish standardized workflows, roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and governance frameworks for key compliance activities.

Enable the timely collection and reporting of transfers of value to health care professionals and health care organizations globally, where required.

Partner with global and regional Corporate Compliance leaders to identify requirements, harmonize processes, and support consistent execution across geographies.

Develop and drive pull through of annual and multi-year compliance operational plans, priorities, milestones, and performance measures.

Coordinate complex cross-functional and cross-regional compliance initiatives, including data analytics, and process improvement.

Establish mechanisms for tracking compliance commitments, remediation activities, program enhancements, and strategic initiatives globally.

Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and improve compliance processes while maintaining appropriate controls.

Support executive leadership, Compliance Committee, Audit Committee, and other governance reporting.

Global Compliance Learning & Communications Lead the operational strategy and administration of the global compliance learning program.

Establish a global compliance learning framework that defines enterprise-required training while supporting appropriate regional and country-specific content.

Oversee the Corporate Compliance learning curriculum, including Code of Conduct, anti-bribery and anti-corruption, conflicts of interest, privacy, competition, healthcare compliance, and other required topics.

Establish role-based and risk-based learning approaches aligned with employee responsibilities, geography, and risk exposure.

Partner with global and regional subject matter experts to develop, procure, update, localize, and deploy compliance learning content.

Oversee learning management system processes, assignment rules, completion monitoring, escalation, reporting, and training records.

Manage external learning-content providers and related vendor relationships.

Establish metrics to evaluate training completion, effectiveness, learner engagement, and program impact across regions.

Coordinate global compliance communications and awareness initiatives.

Global Policy & Procedure Governance Lead the operational framework for developing, reviewing, approving, publishing, maintaining, and retiring Corporate Compliance policies and procedures.

Establish policy governance standards, templates, ownership requirements, review cycles, version control, and approval processes.

Develop an approach for managing global policies alongside necessary regional or country-specific requirements.

Coordinate periodic policy reviews with global and regional subject matter experts.

Maintain centralized visibility into policy ownership, status, review dates, employee acknowledgement requirements, localization needs, and associated training.

Identify opportunities to simplify and harmonize compliance policies across functions and geographies.

Compliance Systems & Technology Serve as a strategic business owner or key stakeholder for global technology supporting Corporate Compliance, including but not limited to transparency reporting platforms, review and approval processes, risk assessment, and monitoring.

Develop and maintain a global compliance technology roadmap aligned with program strategy and organizational priorities.

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