Specialist, Compliance

**Specialist Compliance Partner (Singapore)**
- Opportunity to **be a part of a IT Compliance & Risk Management in Singapore**:

- ** Based in Singapore**, the regional hub for Asia Pacific (AP) and top-ranked biopharmaceutical company on The Straits Times and Statista’s list of Best Employers in Singapore for two consecutive years (2020, 2021).
- Join the **premier biopharmaceutical company** that has been in Singapore for more than **25 years and in AP for over 60 years.**

Our company’s Information Technology division partners with colleagues across the business to help serve our patients and customers around the world. We are a high-energy team of dynamic, innovative individuals dedicated to leveraging information and technology to efficiently drive revenue and productivity, thereby advancing our company’s contribution to global medical innovation.

Information Technology Risk Management and Security Governance Risk and Compliance (ITRMS GRC) is an essential component of our company’s Information Technology division that provides support to the Pharmaceutical Research, Supply Chain, and Marketing organizations. The IT Compliance Consultation group is responsible for working directly with IT practitioners to provide guidance on navigating the company’s System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and the IT Control framework.

The **Specialist Compliance Partner** will engage with stakeholders as a trusted partner for the Japan, China, Asia Pacific (JCAP) region providing consultation services and leadership for the SDLC and the IT Control framework. This role reports to the IT Compliance Consultation Lead.

**Primary Responsibilities**
- Engage with IT practitioners and provide expertise for the SDLC, Compliance Risk Profile, Digital SDLC, and the IT Control Requirements Set
- Represent IT Compliance as a single point of contact and advise project teams on the SDLC tailoring/risk-based implementation strategy
- Interpret IT Controls (based on current regulatory requirements) and provide independent support to practitioners
- Support strategic engagements that may require setting up processes and compliance artifacts to drive operational efficiency
- Manage project governance, including providing progress updates of the assigned deliverables, driving timely closures of escalations, and facilitating strategic decisions with senior management
- Initiate training and workshop for knowledge transfer and adoption of Agile SDLC principles
- Ensure that the IT organization operates and complies with established policies/procedures
- Establish new or improved guidance and drive consistent, standard methods across the IT divisions
- Support audit/inspection readiness and participate in the timely review and CAPA response
- Support Senior Specialist Compliance Partner in all aspects of the functions

**Education Minimum Requirement**:

- Bachelor's Degree is required.
- Concentration in an Information Technology or related field in Risk Management, Audit, Information Security & Controls.

**Required Experience and Skills**:

- Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with stakeholders
- Clear understanding of principles, procedures, governance of validation activities in IT controls and system development life cycle
- Understanding of emerging technologies used in the IT industry, such as cloud, mobility, social, data science, and analytics platforms

**Who we are**

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

**What we look for**

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

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**Employee Status**:
Regular

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