Director, Compliance Business Enablement (Remote)

Work Flexibility: Remote

Position Summary:

The Director, Compliance Business Enablement, provides strategic leadership, governance, and vision across multiple global business processes and the solutions that enable them. This role defines the long-term roadmap, ensures alignment with enterprise priorities, and oversees global governance to harmonize business processes, compliance standards and programs, and digital capabilities across regions.

The Director partners with senior business leaders, IT, and regional teams to design and sustain a unified operating model that enables business growth while ensuring compliance excellence. This role also collaborates closely with the Senior Director of Compliance Program Management and Business Enablement to align with departmental strategy, integrating compliance objectives with broader business goals and prioritizing efforts based on key compliance risks and enterprise value.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Governance

• Define and own the global vision, roadmap, and governance framework for end-to-end business processes and enabling solutions.

• Collaborate with the Senior Director to align departmental strategy and ensure focus on high-impact areas driven by prioritized compliance risks.

• Partner with business leadership to ensure that compliance and process governance frameworks enable — not inhibit — operational effectiveness, agility, and innovation.

• Champion the integration of compliance goals into business strategies, ensuring process and technology decisions enhance ethical performance and business outcomes.

• Lead global governance forums to align on priorities, funding, and solution investments, ensuring coordination across regions and functions.

• Represent Global Process & Solution Enablement in enterprise steering committees, strategic planning sessions, and transformation forums.

Program and Process Ownership & Optimization

• Own and enhance Compliance programs that have direct business impact, ensuring strong stakeholder collaboration and maintaining formal mechanisms to drive improvements

• Define and maintain global process standards, policies, and KPIs that optimize performance while meeting regulatory and operational requirements.

• Partner with business process owners to identify and implement improvements that advance both compliance integrity and business efficiency.

• Use analytics and performance data to measure success, identify inefficiencies, and drive a culture of continuous improvement.

• Ensure process harmonization supports scalability and flexibility for global and regional operations.

• Lead change management, training, and communications to support global adoption of new processes and ways of working.

Solution Ownership & Enablement

• Provide strategic oversight of the global solution roadmap, ensuring technology investments support business enablement and compliance objectives.

• Collaborate with the Senior Manager to execute on solution enhancements, release planning, and operational excellence.

• Drive alignment with enterprise architecture, data governance, and information security standards.

• Ensure validation, audit readiness, and lifecycle documentation meet regulatory and internal quality standards.

• Partner with IT and business stakeholders to optimize the use of technology as a driver of process simplification and compliance transparency.

Leadership & Partnership

• Lead a global team of diverse skillsets and levels such as managers, process leads, and analysts,, fostering a culture of empowerment, accountability, and innovation.

• Build strong partnerships with business units, ensuring alignment between operational goals, compliance expectations, and technology enablement.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to business and compliance leaders, helping connect regulatory requirements with strategic business value.

• Promote a global mindset centered on ethics, efficiency, and excellence in both process and solution execution.

• Act as the escalation point for complex business or compliance challenges impacting global operations.

• Identify, select, and manage external vendors as needed

Education and Special Trainings:

• B.A. or B.S from accredited university required.

• Graduate Degree or additional professional accreditation preferred (e.g., MBA, MS, JD, CFE, CCEP)

Qualifications & Experience:

• Minimum of 12 years of work experience required

• Prior supervisory experience required

• Project Management experience with one or more methodologies/frameworks

• Experience managing transformation projects with ability to showcase understanding of technical requirements/scope

• Demonstrates knowledge and clear understanding of the required elements of effective Compliance programs, AdvaMed and/or PhRMA Code and other relevant standards (e.g., DOJ Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, Section 8B 2.1 of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines).

• Experience working under government agreements (e.g., CIA, DPA or other prosecution agreements preferred) 

• Demonstrates expertise in applying external requirements to key activities and processes

• Demonstrates experience developing and leading large-scale, global initiatives

• Possesses excellent leadership and influencing skills

• Demonstrates high level of professionalism

• Able to initiate, embrace and support change in a dynamic and complex environment

• Oversees complex diverse work of significant impact to the organization

• Well-developed ability to show discretion and maintain confidentiality

• Demonstrates advanced written and verbal communication and leadership skills

• Knowledge of the following preferred:

  o   Cloud Computing (e.g., Amazon Web Services, MS Azure)

  o   Advanced Data Processing/Analytics, APIs (e.g., XML, SOAP)

  o   Programming Languages (e.g., SQL, Python, Javascript)

  o   Automation (e.g., Alteryx)

  o   Natural Language Processing or Machine Learning

Physical and Mental Requirements:

Must be able to:

• Exercise independent judgment with strong attention to detail.

• Analyze, understand and communicate complicated issues to leaders to ensure understanding.

• Develop solutions based on best practices and customer feedback.

• Effectively facilitate discussions with and deliver communications to large groups of people.

• Communicate telephonically and via email and other electronic means

Percent Travel:

20% Domestic and International

Compensation:

• $155,900- $337,600 salary plus bonus eligible + generally eligible for short-term and long-term financial incentives + benefits.  Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

Travel Percentage: 20%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

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