Head of Compliance

Our client, a globally recognised organisation with a highly respected and long-established brand is seeking to appoint a Head of Compliance on a permanent basis.

This is a senior leadership role with direct management responsibility for a team of Senior Managers. The role sits at the heart of the business and is responsible for shaping and embedding a strong compliance culture while enabling sustainable, risk-aware growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, delivery and ongoing enhancement of a business-wide risk and compliance framework, including the identification of key risks and the implementation of proportionate policies, processes and controls aligned to the organisation’s risk profile.
• Establish clear ownership and accountability across first and second lines, ensuring effective governance structures are defined and embedded.
• Develop and implement consistent operating models and RACI structures across central teams, local markets and Group functions to ensure clarity and alignment.
• Serve as the key liaison with Group Risk and Regulatory stakeholders, maintaining strong, collaborative and effective working relationships.
• Design and oversee compliance training and awareness initiatives to strengthen organisational understanding of compliance, ethics and risk.
• Take a leading role in governance forums, including risk and compliance committees, providing clear reporting on KPIs, control effectiveness, audit findings and remediation actions.
• Produce high-quality, insight-led reporting for senior leadership to support informed strategic and operational decision-making.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across the organisation, including Internal Audit and other assurance functions.
• Provide independent, commercially pragmatic advice to executive and senior leaders on risk decisions, mitigation approaches and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee compliance involvement in commercial activity, including customer engagements and product or service development, ensuring risks are appropriately assessed and managed.
• Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing compliance team, ensuring capability to deliver robust oversight across multiple jurisdictions.

About You

• Experience in technology, telecoms and/or B2B environments is highly desirable
• You are an established compliance and/or risk leader with substantial experience in regulated, multinational environments.
• You bring strong expertise in the design and implementation of risk and compliance frameworks, alongside a deep understanding of regulatory compliance and enterprise risk management.
• You are confident operating at Executive and Board level, with the credibility to influence, advise and constructively challenge senior stakeholders.
• You have a proven ability to drive cultural change and embed risk-aware decision-making across large organisations.
• You are a strong communicator, capable of simplifying complex regulatory and risk issues into clear, practical guidance.
• You excel in stakeholder management, with a track record of building trusted relationships and aligning diverse stakeholders in matrixed environments.
• You have experience working across multiple jurisdictions and understand the challenges of operating within varied regulatory frameworks.

This is a high-impact leadership role, offering the chance to shape and strengthen the compliance agenda of a complex international organisation while working closely with senior stakeholders to enable responsible, sustainable growth.

If this opportunity sounds of potential interest, please send your CV to [email protected]