Head of Compliance MA EMEA

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This is an expanded and strategically important role. The Head of Compliance for Market Area EMEA carries a broad mandate, reflecting Ericsson's commitment to a holistic, forward-looking approach to integrity, compliance and risk management across the business.
The role encompasses the full spectrum of ethics and compliance risk: anti-bribery and corruption, antitrust and competition, anti-money laundering, human rights, anti-fraud, anti-terrorism, reputational risk, and beyond. The role holder will proactively identify emerging threats, regulatory developments, and business environment changes that could impact the organisation, and work with the business to own and respond where needed. This role will play a key part in enabling business leaders to own and manage risk as a driver of sustainable success.
As Head of Compliance EMEA, you will lead a team of compliance and risk professionals in a dynamic and exciting region. You will serve a diverse set of business and organizational units across the region, partnering with business stakeholders to embed Ericsson's Ethics and Compliance program, enable genuine business ownership of risk, and drive accountability for compliance and sound risk management throughout the organization.
Ericsson's Compliance Office, under the leadership of the Chief Compliance Officer, has responsibility for all components of Ericsson's Ethics and Compliance Program. The program covers compliance with our Code of Business Ethics and spans the broad range of subject matters within your remit - including anti-fraud, anti-bribery and corruption, anti-terrorism, antitrust and competition, anti-money laundering, human rights, sanctions and export controls, and the identification and management of emerging and reputational risks.
You will report to the Chief Compliance Officer and have a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Head of Legal EMEA, sitting on both the Compliance Office Leadership Team and the Market Area Legal Leadership Team. This dual positioning ensures you are closely connected to both the global compliance agenda and the strategic priorities of the Market Area, enabling you to translate group-wide standards into locally relevant, business-enabling actions. You will collaborate closely within Legal Affairs & Compliance (GFLA) and other assurance colleagues on matters such as training and communication initiatives, risk assessments, third-party due diligence and monitoring, investigations and implementing remediation where needed. You will prepare insights, analyses and report to stakeholders about the effectiveness of the ethics, integrity and compliance program and the state of risk across the Market Area.
In this exciting role, you will lead and ensure the development of a diverse team of Compliance Officers, setting expectations, managing performance, and fostering a culture where every team member is empowered to enable the business to succeed - with integrity. You will guide them in partnering with business stakeholders to make sound judgments, implement the compliance program, and support effective, business-owned risk management throughout the Market Area.
The role will be located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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In this role you will be expected to
• Lead and manage all aspects of the Market Area's Ethics and Compliance program, ensuring it enables the business to operate successfully within a robust framework of controls and ethical standards.• Act as a solution oriented trusted advisor, actively supporting business stakeholders in proactively identifying, owning and managing compliance and broader risk matters and providing expert advice, practical problem-solving, and clear paths forward.• Drive a robust culture of ethics, integrity and compliance and a sense of shared responsibility, empowering business leaders to take ownership of risk as a foundation for sustainable success.• Champion Business Success, Be a trusted advisor to the business, providing strategic and tactical solutions that drive things forward in the right way. You'll understand the complexities of our business but always strive for simplicity in your approach.• Lead with Integrity, Act with integrity and do the right thing, always. You'll be a role model for your business partners, demonstrating sound judgment and a commitment to protecting company value and reputation.• Lead and Develop Your People, You will build expert capability across the Compliance team. As a senior leader within GFLA, you will play a key role supporting the development of skills capability and effectiveness of your team and wider GFLA colleagues, including through sharing knowledge, best practice, actively contributing to learning initiatives the function, alongside fostering an inclusive team environment where diverse talent thrives.• Working in partnership with the EMEA Head of Legal, you will lead horizon scanning and emerging risk identification across the Market Area, encompassing areas such as anti-bribery and corruption, antitrust and competition, anti-money laundering, human rights, reputational risk, and other areas of regulatory and business concern and ensuring risks are identified early and escalated appropriately.• Lead the Market Area's Ethics and Compliance related governance activities, managing relevant committees and boards such as the Market Area Remediation Committee and the Business Partner Review Board, while contributing to the activities of the Group Business Risk Committee.• Oversee, together with colleagues in Compliance and other group functions, the engagement, due diligence, and ongoing monitoring of third parties.• Lead training and awareness initiatives, with the support of other Compliance colleagues, to equip stakeholders across the Market Area with the knowledge and confidence to manage compliance and risk topics in their day to day work.• Assess and manage actual or potential conflicts of interest, expenditure risks (including gifts, entertainment, and hospitality), and engagements with public officials.• Lead remediation resulting from investigations or other consequence management processes across the Market Area, whether relating to personnel, third parties, or process matters - driving accountability and continuous improvement.• Collaborate with colleagues across legal, internal audit, and other assurance functions to assist in holistic risk identification and mitigation across the Market Area, reinforcing business ownership of risk.
To be successful in this role, you should have

• Strong ethics, compliance and risk management credentials, including at least 10 years of experience in an ethics & compliance or related risk leadership role in a multinational organization, with demonstrable breadth across multiple compliance disciplines (e.g., anti-bribery and corruption, antitrust, anti-money laundering, human rights, reputational risk).
• A legal degree is strongly preferred.
• Experience operating in the region, including in high-risk markets.
• A proven track record of successfully partnering and collaborating with senior business, commercial, and functional leaders to identify, own, and manage risks - with a focus on enabling the business to succeed through sound risk management.
• Experience in a matrixed organization and collaborating with different stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
• An ability to simplify complex topics and communicate expectations and articulate risks clearly and concisely to stakeholders at all levels.
• An ability to take ownership of complex problems and projects and drive those to successful completion.
• Experience in managing and developing a large and diverse team, with members spread across several locations.
• Impeccable judgement, maturity, and discretion, including a demonstrated ability to engage in difficult conversations and constructive dialogue with senior stakeholders to address complex and sensitive issues.
• A positive attitude and strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the credibility and presence to influence business leaders and foster a culture of business-owned risk and integrity.
• Working proficiency in languages relevant to the Market Area preferred.
• Ability to work across time zones.
• Ability to travel internationally

Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you'll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world's toughest problems. You'll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You'll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
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Primary country and city: Saudi Arabia (SA) || Riyadh
Req ID: 787123