Governance and Ethics Lead

About this role

Job Title: Governance and Ethics LeadLocation: DublinCompetitive salary and benefits Introduction to role: Are you ready to shape governance that enables responsible innovation while protecting patients, our reputation, and long-term business impact? In this role, you will set the bar for ethical decision-making and pragmatic compliance, enabling teams to move faster with confidence and clarity. You will lead how we evaluate and approve novel, complex activities across the enterprise, ensuring our promotional and non-promotional work—spanning interactions with healthcare professionals, organizations, and corporate affairs—delivers measurable value without compromising integrity. Can you envision building a framework that removes friction, anticipates risk, and scales new ways of working across the full patient journey? Accountabilities: Signatory Approval: Provide final approval of specified above-brand materials and activities linked to promotion, interactions with Health Care Professionals and Organisations, and corporate affairs; extend support to therapy-area reviews when required

Cross-Functional Committee Leadership: Chair a cross-functional governance committee to review novel and complex activities, uphold standards, and approve associated materials, enabling value-added delivery in a pragmatic and compliant manner. Governance Framework Leadership: Implementation of local governance and decision-making frameworks, ensuring ethical, compliant execution across related activities. Risk Anticipation and Mitigation: Work to anticipate emerging risks and opportunities; design and implement practical measures that prevent issues before they escalate and keep the organization compliant

Ways of working: Leads the establishment and coordination of local processes and approval streams to mitigate risks while streamlining ways of working. Metrics and Quality Tracking: Generation of metrics and tracking of activities to ensure continued high standard and quality of all

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