Regional Head of Ethics & Compliance

Key Responsibilities

Regional Program Leadership and Implementation

Lead the implementation and embedding of Arup’s ethics and compliance program across the Americas, aligned to the global framework and responsive to regional risks, priorities and business needs, while helping to strike the right balance between global consistency and appropriate regional adaptation.

As a member of the Global Ethics & Compliance team, lead and support delivery of global ethics and compliance priorities, initiatives and standards across the Americas.

Partner with business areas, regional leadership and key functions across the Americas to embed ethics and compliance into business processes and day-to-day decision-making.

Provide regional leadership across core program activity, including policy implementation, risk assessment, due diligence, training, speak up, case management, monitoring and reporting.

Support effective regional governance, oversight and management information to provide visibility of ethics and compliance risks, issues, trends and improvement actions.

Identify regional priorities, emerging risks and areas for improvement and work with global and regional stakeholders to strengthen program effectiveness and consistency.

Provide insight, reporting and practical advice to the Global Ethics & Compliance Director, the wider Global Ethics & Compliance team and regional leadership on ethics and compliance matters across the Americas.

Work closely with legal, risk, people, procurement and other relevant functions across the Americas to align roles, support effective escalation and maintain joined-up ways of working.

Advisory Support, Training and Business Partnering

Act as a trusted advisor to the business across the Americas, providing practical, risk-based and commercially aware guidance on ethics and compliance matters.

Support delivery of regional training, communications and awareness activity to help embed expected standards and strengthen understanding of ethics and compliance requirements.

Build strong relationships across the region to support effective programme delivery, encourage early engagement and reinforce a culture of integrity and accountability.

Speak Up, Cases and Regional Oversight

Support the effective operation of speak up arrangements, case management and investigations governance within the Americas, in line with global standards and regional requirements.

Monitor regional themes, trends and issues arising from cases and other ethics and compliance activity and escalate or report as appropriate.

Work with legal, people, audit and other relevant stakeholders to support the coordination, governance and escalation of sensitive matters where required.

Regional Insight and Continuous Improvement

Use regional insight and experience to inform continuous improvement of ethics and compliance processes, tools and ways of working.

Contribute as part of the Global Ethics & Compliance team by sharing regional feedback, lessons learned and emerging issues from the Americas to support ongoing development of the wider programme.