Director, Risk & Compliance Management

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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Parexel

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 1983

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

💰 Venture Round on 1990-01

Healthcare Insurance • Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals

Parexel is one of the world's largest clinical research organizations (CROs), providing comprehensive services for the clinical development process from Phase I to IV. The company specializes in portfolio management, clinical trial management, regulatory strategy, market access, and lifecycle management for biopharmaceuticals. Parexel aims to speed life-changing medicines to market by leveraging its clinical, regulatory, and therapeutic expertise. With a global team of over 21,000 professionals, Parexel works to integrate patient insights and innovative trial designs to develop treatments across therapeutic areas such as oncology, neuroscience, rare diseases, and more. It focuses on delivering patient-centric and efficient clinical trials.

📋 Description

• Supporting the Executive Director in leading enterprise wide quality compliance, governance, operational process excellence, vendor governance and risk management functions across Parexel’s global Data & Technology (D&T) organisation. • Providing strategic and operational oversight for governance frameworks, Quality Management System (QMS) alignment, SDLC governance, supplier oversight, risk management and compliance by design practices supporting regulated and non-regulated technology environments. • Serving as a senior leader responsible for strengthening operational discipline, inspection readiness, regulatory confidence and enterprise governance maturity while enabling modern, scalable and agile technology delivery. • Supporting enterprise audit, regulatory inspection readiness, inspection coordination, audit responses and remediation activities. • Owning and continuously improving QMS processes, SOP governance, controlled document lifecycle management and associated standards, templates and work instructions. • Supporting enterprise SDLC governance, change management, release management and operational control processes across the technology lifecycle. • Driving standardization, harmonization, process simplification and compliance by design across governance and delivery processes. • Leading vendor qualification, governance, oversight and risk management for suppliers, cloud providers, strategic technology partners and outsourced delivery teams. • Defining and maintaining supplier governance strategies, technical agreements, service expectations, performance monitoring and risk frameworks aligned to regulatory and operational expectations. • Developing, maintaining and continuously improving D&T quality and operational risk frameworks, including criteria, tolerance, appetite, dashboards and executive-level reporting. • Leading proactive risk identification, escalation, mitigation, governance assessment and continuous improvement activities across regulated technology environments. • Acting as a key member of the Quality Leadership Team and partnering closely with D&T, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, Security and Operational stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Technology, Quality, Engineering, Life Sciences or related discipline required. • Master’s Degree in Business, Technology, Quality or related discipline preferred. • Relevant certifications such as PMP, ITIL, Lean Six Sigma, COBIT, ISO, SAFe or equivalent preferred. • Proven leadership capability with experience building, developing and leading high-performing teams across complex, global and regulated environments. • Deep expertise in governance, QMS, SOP management, compliance, operational process management and risk-based quality oversight. • Strong understanding of SDLC governance, Agile, DevOps, cloud, SaaS and modern technology delivery models within regulated or GxP environments. • Demonstrated ability to lead vendor governance, supplier oversight, third-party risk management and enterprise transformation or governance maturity initiatives. • Excellent stakeholder management, executive communication, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance compliance, innovation and operational efficiency. • Advanced level relevant experience in IT governance, compliance, process excellence, operational risk management or related disciplines, including significant experience within global organisations. • Strong leadership and people management experience, including leading governance, operational excellence, compliance or transformation functions in complex matrix environments. • Strong experience supporting regulated environments, including audits, inspections and regulatory engagements. • Significant experience with SDLC governance, change management, operational controls, vendor governance, third-party risk management, cloud governance and SaaS oversight. • Demonstrated experience driving enterprise transformation, process improvement, operational planning, budget management and engagement with executive leadership, clients and external stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary • Car allowance • Bonus • Holiday • Other leading benefits you would expect with a top company in the CRO Industry.