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VP Compliance Program Professional
PRIMARY PURPOSE : The VP Ethics, Privacy & Compliance Program Professional role supports and advances tech-enabled global ethics, privacy, and compliance programs, partnering across functions and the business to strengthen the enterprise's overall global risk and controls posture. Leads key program initiatives and supports continued program maturity and effectiveness across the enterprise. Understands how to embed automated controls and digital ethics into business processes, delivering proactive, technology-enabled assurance across the enterprise. This role reports to senior Legal and Compliance leadership and partners with attorneys, privacy, cyber, and business functions across Sedgwick to advance ethics, privacy, and compliance programs and help anticipate risk, support business decisions, and create value across the enterprise and for its clients.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES
· Supports the development and leads implementation of tech-enabled ethics, privacy, and compliance programs, assessing program effectiveness against leading frameworks and external benchmarks.
· Builds and maintains compliance program documentation, policies, and training materials that keep pace with regulatory change and business growth.
· Monitors regulatory developments across ethics, privacy, and compliance, assesses their impact, and recommends appropriate program actions.
· Develops agile ways of working that allow the program to respond effectively as scrutiny and public and private market regulation increase.
· Delivers and tracks privacy, compliance, and ethics program metrics and maturity indicators and provides data-driven insights and recommendations to department leadership and key stakeholders.
· Leads key components of the annual compliance program, including annual risk assessment, policy attestation, and training/certification cycles.
· Works closely with Colleague Relations (HR) on matters that intersect with ethics, privacy, and compliance, including investigations, policy alignment, and training content.
· Supports the design and leads implementation of automated controls into business processes and systems to reduce manual monitoring and increase real-time compliance.
· Partners closely with Cyber/Information Security to align compliance controls with the enterprise's cybersecurity risk management program.
· Provides guidance to business and functional partners on digital ethics considerations, including the responsible use of data, AI, and other emerging technologies across the business.
· Partners with Innovation & Resilience legal counsel and business technology teams to ensure new tools and platforms are built with ethics, privacy, and compliance requirements embedded by design.
· Develops and implements compliance controls and guardrails that protect the enterprise while enabling the business to innovate and move quickly, supporting compliance as an enabler of responsible innovation rather than a barrier to it.
· Leads cross-functional program initiatives and provides recommendations to Legal and Compliance leadership on ethics, privacy, and compliance program risks, priorities, and opportunities.
ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES
· Performs other duties as assigned.
· Travels as required
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
· Provides support, guidance,…