Associate Director, Transactional Monitoring, Data Analytics & Risk Assessment

Essential Functions/Responsibilities

• Serves as a strategic partner and analytical leader, driving data-informed insights that enhance monitoring effectiveness, risk identification, and overall compliance program performance.
• Learns and leads the advancement of a risk-based compliance monitoring model, leveraging transactional monitoring, data analytics, and key risk indicators to proactively identify trends and emerging risks.
• Accountable for monitoring execution and analytics strategy, ensuring leadership has clear, actionable visibility into compliance risks and program effectiveness.
• Partners across Compliance, Commercial, Medical Affairs, Finance, IT, and Legal to enable consistent, risk-informed decision-making.

Transactional Monitoring & Risk Detection

• Lead and continuously enhance a risk-based transactional monitoring program across key compliance risk areas (e.g., HCP engagements, speaker programs, transfers of value).
• Oversee monitoring activities to identify trends, anomalies, and potential risks using established and evolving methodologies.
• Establish and refine scalable monitoring frameworks, processes, and governance practices.
• Drive stakeholder alignment on findings, remediation actions, and issue resolution tracking.

Data Analytics & Decision Support

• Lead the development and maturation of compliance data analytics capabilities supporting monitoring, reporting, and risk detection.
• Integrate and analyze multi-source data to deliver a comprehensive view of compliance risk.
• Define and implement analytics-driven monitoring rules, thresholds, and risk indicators.
• Oversee development of dashboards and reporting tools that deliver clear, actionable insights to leadership.
• Translate complex analytics into concise, decision-ready insights that inform prioritization and strategy.

Risk Assessment & Prioritization

• Contribute to and help shape the global compliance risk assessment process, incorporating qualitative and quantitative inputs.
• Analyze data and stakeholder insights to identify and prioritize key compliance risks.
• Partner cross-functionally to validate risks and align on mitigation strategies.
• Maintain risk outputs and reporting to support leadership oversight and governance.

Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) & Insights

• Establish and maintain KRIs to monitor risk across activities, geographies, and business areas.
• Provide regular, insight-driven reporting to inform monitoring priorities and program evolution.
• Continuously refine metrics, thresholds, and analytical approaches to strengthen risk visibility.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence

• Build and sustain strong partnerships across Compliance and business stakeholders.
• Influence alignment on monitoring priorities and analytics initiatives, focusing on high-risk, high-impact areas.
• Translate insights into coordinated actions and enterprise-level improvements.
• Operate effectively in a matrixed environment, influencing without direct authority.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Identify and implement enhancements to data sources, tools, and analytical methodologies.
• Drive process improvements to increase efficiency, scalability, and consistency.
• Lead adoption of new approaches and incorporate learnings to strengthen the compliance monitoring program.