Description
We are seeking a Senior Ethics & Compliance (E&C) Counsel to join our team in Shanghai. As a qualified lawyer with a minimum of 12 years' work experience, you will provide substantive counselling in anti-corruption and other compliance subject matters to clients in 3M's three business groups and multiple functions.
Responsibilities:
- Provide tailored and practical solutions and trainings on anti-corruption and compliance subject matters
- Analyze and present compliance trends, risk insights, and program performance to senior leadership
- Support the screening and selection of third parties, and provide legal advice and counsel to clients related to higher-risk transactions
- Identify and mitigate risks, and build a strong compliance culture through training, employee communication, and leadership engagement
- Contribute to global/regional compliance processes such as Risk Assessments and Evaluations
Requirements:
- Qualified lawyer with minimum 12 years' work experience
- Proven leadership experience overseeing regional or multi-country compliance programs and leading a team of E&C professionals
- Track record of working independently to serve clients, and working on or leading project teams and driving culture improvements across diverse businesses and functions
- Ability to anticipate emerging risks and synthesize complex regulatory, market, and operational factors into clear strategic compliance insights for senior leadership
- Experience in leading or developing a team of compliance professionals, building organizational capability through training, talent development, succession planning, and operating model design
- Strong strategic thinking capability – applying it towards shaping long-term compliance frameworks, roadmap planning, interpreting organization changes, leadership transitions and shifting business priorities
- Meaningful experience in engaging with government agencies, industry groups and external counsel on E&C matters
- Good knowledge of Trade Compliance concepts, especially those relating to export control and sanctions
- Strong interpersonal, communication, analytical and problem-solving skills; strong stakeholder management skills, including navigating differing interests among senior leaders and building consensus on high-impact E&C decisions
- Ability to use GenAI tools to design and refine training/messaging materials which address complex E&C topics and realistic scenario-based learning needs, while ensuring accuracy and alignment with company standards
- Experience in compliance analytics, dashboard and KPI development will be a plus
- Fluent in English and Chinese
- Ability to travel up to 10% of time