Strategy Lead, Ethics & Compliance

Critical Accountabilities

• CECO Strategic Advisory & Decision Support: Provide strategic counsel to the CECO and GEC LT, framing complex topics into clear options, tradeoffs, recommendations, and decision points. Develop high-quality decision memos, executive summaries, and stakeholder prep packs that enable faster, better leadership decisions. Create transparency of project status and milestones through regular portfolio reviews. Maintain a forward view of CECO priority topics and decision timing — what needs a decision, by when, and who must be aligned.
• GEC LT Operating Rhythm (Outcomes-Focused): As a standing GEC LT member, shape meeting content toward decisions, risk posture, priorities, and actions rather than discussion-only updates. Own decision and action discipline ensure decisions are documented, actions carry a clear owner and date, and follow-through is tracked to closure. (Meeting logistics remain with the CECO’s EA; this role owns content quality and outcomes.) Escalate stalled actions and unresolved cross-functional dependencies to the right owners and forums.
• Governance & Risk Committee Readiness: Partner with the Chief of Staff/GLEC Operations to ensure CECO governance updates are Risk Committee–ready decision-oriented, risk-based, and supported by clear facts and mitigations. Curate a concise CECO Governance Pack — top risks, mitigation progress, decisions required, and action follow-through — used across leadership and committee pathways. Ensure narratives are consistent across governance channels what we are saying, why, and what we need.
• Strategic Alignment Across GLEC Operations (Connector) and GLEC: Connect GEC LT priorities to GLEC Operations pillar leads to ensure clean alignment, handoffs, risk ownership and escalation paths. Partner with Strategy & Planning teammates (e.g., Strategy Lead, Project Management Leads) so CECO and GEC LT decisions are reflected in the right roadmaps and execution mechanisms.
• CECO Communications & Executive Narrative: Draft CECO talk tracks and leadership-ready messaging that reinforce strategic priorities, risk posture, and stakeholder asks. Coordinate with the Change Management Lead when adoption planning or structured change communications are required (the Change Lead owns the change plan and its execution).
• Enterprise E&C Decision Architecture : Maintain a rolling 6–12 month CECO decision agenda that identifies the material enterprise E&C decisions, risk discussions, governance milestones, stakeholder engagements, and leadership-team dependencies. Work with accountable GEC LT leaders to ensure each priority topic is brought forward with a clear recommendation, evidence base, decision owner, required stakeholders, implementation implications, and escalation pathway. Identify cross-pillar conflicts, unresolved trade-offs, and decisions that require CECO intervention before they become governance or execution failures.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred (JD, MBA, MPA, or similar).
• 10+ years in strategy, governance, operations, transformation, legal / compliance, or management consulting in a global, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated track record supporting senior leaders with decision framing, executive writing, and cross-functional alignment.
• Deep working knowledge of ethics & compliance and governance, ideally in pharmaceuticals or another highly regulated industry (preferred).
• Strong discretion and judgment; ability to handle sensitive ethics & compliance matters with the highest integrity.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize risk, assurance, investigations, compliance, operational and business information into clear executive-level decisions and governance narratives.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge senior stakeholders, surface unresolved trade-offs, and maintain clarity in high-stakes or sensitive situations.
• Experience working with enterprise metrics, risk indicators, dashboard insights, and qualitative evidence.

Key Skills / Success Profile

• Executive storytelling — concise synthesis, clear recommendations, polished writing.
• Governance discipline — decision logs, action rigor, escalation pathways, closure management.
• Senior facilitation — driving alignment and decisions in leadership-team settings.
• Influence without authority; comfort navigating ambiguity at pace.
• High ethical standards and professional maturity.

Compensation and Benefits

U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/ or long-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others.

U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.