Director of Compliance

Job Overview

Vestis® is seeking a Director of Compliance to help manage and further mature the company’s ethics and compliance program.

Responsibilities/Essential Functions

• Support the Chief Compliance Officer in managing and continuously improving Vestis’s ethics and compliance program across key risk areas, including business conduct, anti-corruption, hotline reporting, investigations, regulatory compliance, training, monitoring, and governance.
• Help translate compliance requirements into practical policies, procedures, controls, training, communications, and field-level processes that can be implemented consistently across Vestis’s operating model.
• Draft, revise, and implement company policies, procedures, guidance documents, job aids, and compliance communications in clear, business-friendly language.
• Support the design and implementation of compliance training and communications, including annual compliance training, targeted risk-based training, leadership messaging, and field-facing materials.
• Manage intake, triage, assignment, documentation, and closure of hotline and other reported concerns, working with Legal, Human Resources, Internal Audit, and other functions as appropriate.
• Support consistent investigation processes, case documentation, corrective action tracking, remediation, discipline coordination, and reporting of trends or recurring issues.
• Partner with Internal Audit and functional leaders to support compliance monitoring, testing, audits, and follow-up on corrective actions.
• Support the Compliance Committee structure, including meeting preparation, agendas, materials, minutes, follow-up items, owner coordination, and recurring reporting across compliance program areas.
• Career Development and Professional Growth
• Represent the compliance team in cross-functional meetings and build strong relationships with field leadership, corporate functions, and operational stakeholders.
• Support ESG initiatives and projects.
• Support other central compliance team projects and initiatives as assigned.

Knowledge/ Skills/Abilities

• Excellent judgment, sound decision-making, commitment to integrity, and ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive matters.
• Strong practical orientation, with the ability to make compliance requirements understandable, actionable, and operational for field and corporate teams.
• Ability to distill complex issues, identify key risks, and develop clear recommendations for leadership.
• Ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization and influence others without formal authority.
• Field-focused mindset and appreciation for operational realities in a distributed business environment.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple workstreams, follow through on deadlines, and drive work to completion.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment with shifting priorities and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare concise executive summaries, reports, presentations, and field-facing communications.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to use data, case trends, audit results, and compliance metrics to support decision-making and continuous improvement.

Experience/Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Five or more years of relevant experience in compliance, legal, audit, investigations, risk management, operations, human resources, or a related field.
• Experience supporting a corporate compliance program, hotline/investigation process, policy program, risk assessment process, training program, audit/monitoring activity, or related governance process preferred.
• Strong writing, editing, and presentation skills required.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint required; experience preparing executive-level dashboards, reports, or presentations preferred.