Head of Compliance - East Midlands - £65k to £75k pa (depending on experience)

Salary: £65k to £75k pa (depending on experience)

You will manage the compliance department to:

• Maintain registers of legislation, particularly Environmental, Data Protection, and Health & Safety.
• Monitor new and proposed legislation.
• Audit compliance on a regular basis and report non conformities to the Directors.
• Ensure the department maintains management systems to comply with ISO 9001, 14001, 22301, 27001, CPAS, FSC/PEFC and Health and Safety legislation.
• Work with management to formulate company policies and procedures.
• Plan and coordinate employee awareness of company policies and procedures.
• Plan, direct, and coordinate the quality assurance activities, and promote, implement and maintain a quality improvement programme.
• Assist top management to identify, assess and mitigate operational, strategic and reputational risk.
• Maintain a risk register, risk treatment plans and business impact analysis.
• Promote a risk based management culture.
• Maintain a schedule of internal audits and ensure internal auditors carry out and report on planned audits.
• Ensure that non conformances and arising preventive actions are tracked and closed.
• Manage external surveillance, due diligence and insurance assessor visits.
• Manage procedures to investigate incidents and accidents, ensuring root cause and preventive actions are identified.
• Report activity weekly to the Management Team and report activity, KPIs and trends to the Board.

Our client takes the adherence to GDPR laws extremely seriously. Candidates must have experience handling all data confidentially and disclosing it only on a need to know basis, in accordance with national legislation and the organisation's policy regarding personal information and sensitive business information.