Head of Compliance MA EMEA

Grow with us

Our Exciting Opportunity! This is an expanded and strategically important role. The Head of Compliance for Market Area EMEA carries a broad mandate, reflecting Ericsson’s commitment to a holistic, forward‑looking approach to integrity, compliance and risk management across the business.

The role encompasses the full spectrum of ethics and compliance risk: anti‑bribery and corruption, antitrust and competition, anti‑money laundering, human rights, anti‑fraud, anti‑terrorism, reputational risk, and beyond. The role holder will proactively identify emerging threats, regulatory developments, and business environment changes that could impact the organisation, and work with the business to own and respond where needed. This role will play a key part in enabling business leaders to own and manage risk as a driver of sustainable success.

As Head of Compliance EMEA, you will lead a team of compliance and risk professionals in a dynamic and exciting region, serving a diverse set of business and organisational units across the region. You will partner with stakeholders to embed Ericsson’s Ethics and Compliance program, enable genuine business ownership of risk, and drive accountability for compliance and sound risk management throughout the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage all aspects of the Market Area’s Ethics and Compliance program, ensuring it enables the business to operate successfully within a robust framework of controls and ethical standards.
• Act as a solution‑oriented trusted advisor, actively supporting business stakeholders in proactively identifying, owning and managing compliance and broader risk matters and providing expert advice, practical problem‑solving, and clear paths forward.
• Drive a robust culture of ethics, integrity and compliance and a sense of shared responsibility, empowering business leaders to take ownership of risk as a foundation for sustainable success.
• Champion business success, becoming a trusted advisor to the business, providing strategic and tactical solutions that drive things forward in the right way and striving for simplicity in your approach.
• Lead with integrity: act with integrity and do the right thing, always, thereby modeling sound judgment and protecting company value and reputation.
• Lead and develop your people, building expert capability across the Compliance team and supporting the development of skills, capability and effectiveness of your team and wider GFLA colleagues.
• Work in partnership with the EMEA Head of Legal to lead horizon scanning and emerging risk identification across the Market Area, encompassing areas such as anti‑bribery and corruption, antitrust and competition, anti‑money laundering, human rights, reputational risk and other regulatory and business concerns, ensuring risks are identified early and escalated appropriately.
• Lead the Market Area’s Ethics and Compliance related governance activities, managing relevant committees and boards such as the Market Area Remediation Committee and the Business Partner Review Board, while contributing to the activities of the Group Business Risk Committee.
• Oversee, together with colleagues in Compliance and other group functions, the engagement, due diligence and ongoing monitoring of third parties.
• Lead training and awareness initiatives, equipping stakeholders across the Market Area with the knowledge and confidence to manage compliance and risk topics in their day‑to‑day work.
• Assess and manage actual or potential conflicts of interest, expenditure risks (including gifts, entertainment, and hospitality) and engagements with public officials.
• Lead remediation resulting from investigations or other consequence management processes across the Market Area, driving accountability and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with colleagues across legal, internal audit and other assurance functions to assist in holistic risk identification and mitigation across the Market Area, reinforcing business ownership of risk.

Qualifications

• Strong ethics, compliance and risk management credentials, including at least 10 years of experience in an ethics & compliance or related risk leadership role in a multinational organization, with demonstrable breadth across multiple compliance disciplines.
• A legal degree is strongly preferred.
• Experience operating in the region, including in high‑risk markets.
• A proven track record of successfully partnering and collaborating with senior business, commercial, and functional leaders to identify, own and manage risks, enabling the business to succeed through sound risk management.
• Experience in a matrixed organization and collaborating with different stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
• Ability to simplify complex topics and communicate expectations and articulate risks clearly and concisely to stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to take ownership of complex problems and projects and drive those to successful completion.
• Experience in managing and developing a large and diverse team, with members spread across several locations.
• Impeccable judgement, maturity and discretion, including a demonstrated ability to engage in difficult conversations and constructive dialogue with senior stakeholders to address complex and sensitive issues.
• A positive attitude and strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with credibility and presence to influence business leaders and foster a culture of business‑owned risk and integrity.
• Working proficiency in languages relevant to the Market Area preferred.
• Ability to work across time zones.
• Ability to travel internationally.

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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