Essential roles and responsibilities include:
Leadership and strategy
- Develop and deploy strategy that aligns with business goals, business activities of the BG and
- Unilever more broadly, and addresses local legal and regulatory implications.
- Manage and develop a team of BI experts.
- Lead Business Integrity Committees; share trends, better practices, and lessons learned; and provide advice to leaders.
- Be an active contributor and leader for the continuous enhancement of the Business Integrity programme.
- Represent Unilever and Business Integrity externally in key forums and organisations.
Ethics & Compliance responsibilities
- Be a leader in the promotion of speak-up across the organisation and help employees raise concerns appropriately.
- Execute global plan, including mandatory and strategic non-mandatory training.
- Work with stakeholders to assure third party compliance program, e.g., due diligence, red flag mitigation, is implemented efficiently and effectively.
- Lead, participate or collaborate where required in the different risk assessments and audits.
- Lead investigations as required from time to time in collaboration with the Head of Investigations and other members of the team, although it is not the primary responsibility of the role.
- Provide advice and oversight to assigned investigators to matters concerning Foods or Asian countries e.g., BI, HR, Finance, Operations to assure quality of process and outputs.
- Escalate matters as appropriate, provide recommendations on sanctions and mitigation actions; assure accountability, consistency, and timely execution of corrective actions.
Key Skills / Experiences / Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree is required. Postgraduate qualification in a relevant field (law, business, compliance, etc) is preferred.
- Overall 15+ years of experience is preferred, with minimum 10 years of experience in relevant areas.
- Knowledge and experience in business integrity risk areas, e.g., US FCPA, UKBA, and major bribery laws and regulations.
- Demonstrated experience in a similar role in multinational corporation(s).
- Proven experience in conducting investigations in various areas like fraud, bribery, conflicts of interest, embezzlement, theft, etc.
- Experience in effective management and monitoring of 3rd party compliance risks.
- Strong reputation for integrity.
- Focus on internal customers’ needs, ability to provide practical recommendations and solutions.
- Solid influencing and interpersonal skills in a matrix organization.
- Good problem-solving skills, resilience, and logical thinking, ability to evaluate and simplify complex issues.
- Ability to exercise good and independent judgment.
- Managerial courage – ability to raise potentially sensitive and tense issues when needed to all levels of managers.
- Awareness of the current broader ethical agenda including sustainability, social responsibility, etc.
- Fluent in English. Proficiency in another major Asian language is desired. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to communicate to all levels in the company.