# Compliance Director – Business Partnering & Advisory, Japan

**Company**: GlaxoSmithKline K.K.
**Location**: Tokyo
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Serve as the senior Compliance business partner and trusted advisor to GSK Japan’s Business Units (BUs) and promoted-brand teams, enabling fast, risk-informed decisions at the point of business need while safeguarding the integrity of the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

- Act as the primary Compliance business partner and advisor to assigned Business Units and promoted brands, providing real-time, risk-informed guidance that enables faster launch, campaign and HCP-engagement decisions.

- Embed Compliance early into brand strategy, business planning, speaker programs and promotional/information-provision activities, framing risk at the point of decision rather than after the fact.

- Interpret and translate MHLW Guidelines, PMD Act advertising requirements, JPMA standards and GSK written standards into clear, practical business solutions and “how-to-comply” advice.

- Partner with BU Heads, Marketing, Sales and Medical to evaluate risk appetite, identify proactive and pragmatic mitigations, and support well-documented, defensible business decisions.

- Own and drive the local Risk Management & Compliance Board (RMCB) agenda for assigned areas, ensuring visibility, escalation and remediation of significant compliance risks to the Head of Japan Compliance and JLT.

- Design, embed and continuously improve the Internal Control Framework for assigned BUs, emphasizing prevention , early-warning indicators, controls and capability-building over detection alone.

- Lead root-cause analysis and CAPA for compliance issues in the business, ensuring accountable owners, due dates, evidence-based closure and effectiveness checks that withstand inspection.

- Deliver targeted training, coaching and communications on the GSK Code of Conduct and key risks, building compliance capability and confident decision-making within the business.

- Foster high ethical standards, Speak Up culture; promote transparency and psychological safety so employees raise concerns early, and handle sensitive matters with appropriate confidentiality.

- Partner with Independent Business Monitoring, the Supervisory Division, Legal, HR and Investigations to align monitoring insights, feed lessons learned back into the business.

Breadth/ Scope of Accountability:

- Japan-wide advisory accountability for assigned Business Units and promoted brands across the end-to-end commercial and information-provision lifecycle.

- Works across Commercial, Medical, Material Excellence, Legal, HR, the Speaker Program CoE and enabling functions, while preserving Compliance’s independent challenge role.

- Advises and influences without direct commercial ownership; business and functional leaders retain accountability for their activities, risks and controls.

- Accountable for the quality, timeliness and defensibility of Compliance advice, RMCB inputs and CAPA discipline for the assigned portfolio.

- Trusted with highly confidential and sensitive matters; expected to escalate significant risk without delay.

## Skills

### Required
- Business Acumen
- Internal Control Reviews
- Problem Solving
- Project Management
- Risk Management
- Japanese
- English

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