Country Ebi Business Partner

About the job

Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.

Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide - and counting.

At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan.

B Corp certified in multiple markets, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet. Find out more about our mission at

- Opella_
- At O_pella_, we're building healthier future by helping people help themselves. We empower people to champion better self-care for themselves, our communities and our planet by making it as simple as it should be. We are a brand led, consumer first organization focused on growing our leading loved brands like Buscopan®, Nospa®, Eneterogermina®, Allegra®, Dulco®, or Essentiale® to help more people play an active role in their health._
- Working together, we're focused on simplifying our business, clarifying roles and responsibilities and driving personal accountability to improve collaboration and excellence of execution while role-modeling and fostering challenger mindset across the whole organization to enable everyone to bring out their best every day._

Our Team

We are Opella’s Ethics and Business Integrity (EBI) team.

We are a team of strategic business stakeholders who establish the Opella Fit-for-Purpose EBI Program to address Opella’s business needs and ethics, compliance and privacy risks and who drive cultural transformation enabling fast ethical decision-making and accountability.

Our mission is to enable Opella to respond to consumers and society’s expectations for an ethical and compliant business conduct and be recognized as a strongly ethical business.

To successfully accomplish our mission, we demonstrate the following mindset and behaviours: we are strategic business owners, proactive, innovators, externally focused, impact based, role models and value creation center.

The Head of EBI India drives and oversees the implementation and continuous enhancement of Opella Ethics & Business Integrity (EBI) Program and drives cultural transformation enabling ethical decision making, conduct and accountability.

Key responsibilities:

- Drive/oversee implementation and continuous enhancement of a Fit-For-Purpose EBI Program for Consumer Healthcare for India. This includes policies and procedures, training and communication, risk assessment etc.
- Provide strategic advice and support to country leadership team on ethics and compliance related matters
- Provide ethics and compliance advice and support to country stakeholders for a broad spectrum of activities and brands
- Drive cultural transformation through ethical culture initiatives and implement plans to address areas for enhancement based upon ethical culture measurement
- Establish and drive country governance and chair country Ethics & Compliance Committee
- Report regularly to the Audit Committee and fulfill local reporting requirements
- Oversee implementation of Third Parties EBI Program
- Oversee external consultants who are supporting other zones
- Lead or support implementation of Distributor Partners EBI Program for partner markets in collaboration with Global EBI
- Work closely with the Global EBI team to provide country insights and information for the enhancement of Global EBI Programs
- Work closely with Global Brand EBI Officers for coordination of matters pertaining to country implementation of global brand related activities
- Conduct and support ethics and compliance investigations and recommend disciplinary and corrective measures
- Perform predictive monitoring and other reviews to identify, detect, prevent, mitigate and predict risks
- Drive and oversee the generation of meaningful insights such as trends, risk areas, areas of enhancement, root causes and outliers through data analytics
- Drive and monitor the execution of enhancement/remedial action plans
- Shape the external environment representing Opella in ethics and compliance groups of industry self-care associations and relevant organizations

About you

Experience:

- 10 + years of experience in ethics and compliance in India and with similar geographical scope;
- Previous experience in HealthCare or Consumer Goods industries
- Previous experience working within multinational and multicultural environments
- Proven experience in partnering with Business to provide pragmatic solutions to business challenges

Technical skills:

- Advanced knowledge of international business ethics and compliance principles, extrate