Compliance Consultant
Posted 3 days ago by Arbuthnot Yon
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Compliance Consultant role focuses on leading the design and implementation of a global safety and safeguarding compliance framework for a multi-division organization. This high-impact position requires strategic leadership and collaboration with senior stakeholders across various jurisdictions. The role emphasizes transformation and embedding compliance frameworks rather than day-to-day operations. It offers a fully remote working arrangement and is classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead a group-wide improvement programme across diverse operating environments
- Design and embed global SOPs and risk frameworks
- Develop a consistent incident reporting, escalation and investigation model
- Lead the selection and rollout of a global reporting platform
- Deliver playbooks, dashboards and governance structures to drive transparency and improvement
- Review capability across divisions and shape the long-term operating model
Key Skills:
- Proven experience operating at group or international level
- Experience leading compliance or safeguarding programmes within B2C businesses
- Track record of driving transformation and embedding frameworks at scale
- Strong stakeholder influence at senior/board level
- Pragmatic, delivery-focused approach within complex, decentralised organisations
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Group Safety & Safeguarding Compliance Lead UK (Remote) | International remit | Outside IR35 | Commencing in April / May
We are supporting a global, multi-division organisation on a key hire at group level. This is a high-impact transformation role , leading the design and implementation of a global safety & safeguarding compliance framework across multiple jurisdictions.
Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will:
- Lead a group-wide improvement programme across diverse operating environments
- Design and embed global SOPs and risk frameworks
- Develop a consistent incident reporting, escalation and investigation model
- Lead the selection and rollout of a global reporting platform
- Deliver playbooks, dashboards and governance structures to drive transparency and improvement
- Review capability across divisions and shape the long-term operating model
This role is about strategic leadership design, oversight and influence —rather than day-to-day operations.
Ideal background:
We are particularly interested in senior professionals who have led compliance or safeguarding programmes within retail, hospitality, leisure, healthcare, education or other B2C businesses —typically within large, multi-site, customer-facing businesses .
You will bring:
- Proven experience operating at group or international level , with responsibility for compliance programmes across multiple jurisdictions
- A track record of driving transformation and embedding frameworks at scale
- Strong stakeholder influence at senior/board level
- A pragmatic, delivery-focused approach within complex, decentralised organisations
A genuinely rare opportunity to shape a global framework from the ground up , with the flexibility of a fully remote role and outside IR35 engagement . It is envisaged that this will be an initial 6 month project with potential to extend. Start in April / May ideally.
Apply via linkedin or for more info please contact: Victoria Moore: victoria@aysearch.com 07971666134 OR Kate Mazzag: kate@aysearch.com 07769946081
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