Compliance Officer

Compliance Officer Group Trucks Technology


Enthusiastic about compliance and want a job where your work makes a difference?
The Volvo Group is committed to play a leading role in the transition towards a more sustainable future and doing this in a lawful and ethical manner. For the Volvo Group, compliance, integrity and legal responsibility are inseparable from our daily business activities.
Do you want to join us on our journey? We are looking for a Compliance Officer that will, together with Group Compliance, develop and drive the Volvo Group’s global compliance program with main focus on Group Trucks Technology (GTT) division. You will be part of the GTT legal team in Gothenburg and report to the head of Legal & Volvo Group IP. Do you know what it takes to build an effective compliance program? Are you a true team player with a curious mind-set and a firm belief that an embedded compliance culture will be a key contributor to our future success? Do you want to grow and develop in an exciting industry together with a professional team? Then you might be the person we are looking for!


This is the Group Trucks Technology Legal team
The GTT Legal team comprises of ten experienced and highly skilled lawyers and administrative colleagues operating in a truly global environment. We value collaboration, diversity and a creative workplace. We strive to contribute to the success of GTT by being professional but also by having fun and by making sure that we contribute to a positive and driving atmosphere. We have concluded that it would be preferable to have one person in our team working 100% with compliance and we are therefore looking for a new colleague to join us.


Role description
The Volvo compliance governance approach follows a decentralized model having the risk owners in the businesses being responsible to manage compliance risks of their respective business operations. Our new GTT Compliance Officer colleague will play a key role in providing proactive support to GTT management and the entire GTT organization to ensure compliance with laws and effective implementation of the Group’s Compliance Management System, which will include responsibility for the following tasks;
promote compliance, company Values and the Volvo Group Code of Conduct.
drive and develop GTT Compliance Committee that oversees compliance activities in GTT together with the head of GTT Legal & Volvo group IP
regularly, together with the business, evaluate GTT compliance risks and drive mitigation plans
ensure implementation of globally binding policies, directives and processes and set GTT specific instructions and procedures as deemed necessary to ensure compliance with global requirements and local law.
support in identifying target groups and hold training as per decided Compliance Training Strategy
support compliance audits conducted by Group Internal Audit and other evaluation activities.
drive investigations of whistleblower reports in line with whistleblowing and investigation processes
represent GTT in the Volvo Group’s Compliance Leadership Team
be GTT’s center of expertise and advise on a large variety of compliance matters within the four main compliance areas being data protection, competition law, export control and trade sanctions, bribery and corruption



Qualifications


You should have a university degree in law, business or other university degree suitable for compliance with a minimum of 7 years’ solid experience in management of compliance programs for Anti-Corruption, Anti-Trust, Privacy and Export Control & Sanction from a law firm, as in-house legal counsel or compliance manager. Strong professionalism with business acumen and a sense for practical problem-solving solutions in multi-cultural environments is essential. You should have excellent networking skills with strong ability to build relationships as well as excellent English written and verbal communication skills. It is important that you are a proactive self-starter, comfortable operating autonomously but also a true team player. Lastly, good judgment and strong professionalism with high integrity together with high drive and energy, i.e. capability to drive change, is vital.


This global role with multiple cross-functional interactions provides a unique opportunity and challenge to make a difference when it comes to GTT’s compliance work and culture.


Start date
To be agreed


Travel required
Occasionally


For further information, please contact:
Anna Bjerkelund, head of Legal & Volvo Group IP at Volvo Group Trucks Technology,
phone + 46 73 902 10 61
Last applications date.
August 22, 2021