Head Of Compliance APAC

Ericsson AB; Philippines; On-site; PHP 12,789,000 - 18,692,000; Full time

Job summary

Ericsson seeks a seasoned Head of Compliance for Market Area APAC to lead ethics and compliance initiatives across a diverse set of units. You will partner with business stakeholders to embed a robust program, enable business ownership of risk, and drive accountability for compliance throughout the organization.

You will report to the Chief Compliance Officer and collaborate with Legal Affairs & Compliance and other assurance colleagues to advance risk management, training, and monitoring across

Qualifications

• Strong ethics, compliance and risk management credentials with substantial leadership experience in a multinational.
• A legal degree is strongly preferred for this role.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders to own and manage risk across a large organization.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally.

Responsibilities

• Lead Market Areas Ethics and Compliance program across APAC with robust controls and standards.
• Advise business stakeholders on compliance and risk management with practical solutions.
• Develop and lead a diverse Compliance team across multiple locations.
• Oversee third-party due diligence, monitoring, and remediation activities.
• Collaborate with Legal Affairs & Compliance and assurance teams to strengthen risk management.

Skills

Ethics & Compliance

Risk Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Team Leadership

Cross-functional Collaboration

Strategic Advisory

Regulatory Knowledge

Risk Identification

Communication Skills

Time Zone Flexibility

Education

Law degree (preferred)

Job description

Job Description:

Grow with us

Our Exciting Opportunity!

This is strategically important role. The Head of Compliance for Market Area APAC carries a broad mandate, reflecting Ericssons commitment to a holistic, forward-looking approach to integrity, compliance and risk management across the business.

The role encompasses the full spectrum of ethics and compliance risk: anti-bribery and corruption, antitrust and competition, anti-money laundering, human rights, anti-fraud, anti-terrorism, reputational risk, and beyond. The role holder will proactively identify emerging threats, regulatory developments, and business environment changes that could impact the organisation, and work with the business to own and respond where needed. This role will play a key part in enabling business leaders to own and manage risk as a driver of sustainable success.

As Head of Compliance APAC, you will lead a team of compliance professionals in a dynamic and exciting region. You will serve a diverse set of business and organizational units across the region, partnering with business stakeholders to embed Ericssons Ethics and Compliance program, enable genuine business ownership of risk, and drive accountability for compliance and sound risk management throughout the organization.

Ericssons Compliance Office, under the leadership of the Chief Compliance Officer, has responsibility for all components of Ericssons Ethics and Compliance Program. The program covers compliance with our Code of Business Ethics and spans the broad range of subject matters within your remit — including anti-fraud, anti-bribery and corruption, anti-terrorism, antitrust and competition, anti-money laundering, human rights, sanctions and export controls, and the identification and management of emerging and reputational risks.

You will report to the Chief Compliance Officer and have a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Head of Legal APAC, sitting on both the Compliance Office Leadership Team and the Market Area Legal Leadership Team. This dual positioning ensures you are closely connected to both the global compliance agenda and the strategic priorities of the Market Area, enabling you to translate group-wide standards into locally relevant, business-enabling actions. You will collaborate closely within Legal Affairs & Compliance (GFLA) and other assurance colleagues on matters such as training and communication initiatives, risk assessments, third-party due diligence and monitoring, investigations and implementing remediation where needed. You will prepare insights, analyses and report to stakeholders about the effectiveness of the ethics, integrity and compliance program and the state of risk across the Market Area.

In this exciting role, you will lead and ensure the development of a diverse team of Compliance professionals, setting expectations, managing performance, and fostering a culture where every team member is empowered to enable the business to succeed — with integrity. You will guide them in partnering with business stakeholders to make sound judgments, implement the compliance program, and support effective, business-owned risk management throughout the Market Area.

The role can be located in Delhi, Singapore, Yokohama, Beijing, Seoul, Manila.

In this role you will be expected to:

• Lead and manage all aspects of the Market Areas Ethics and Compliance program, ensuring it enables the business to operate successfully within a robust framework of controls and ethical standards.
• Act as a solution-oriented trusted advisor, actively supporting business stakeholders in proactively identifying, owning and managing compliance and broader risk matters — providing expert advice, practical problem-solving, and clear paths forward.
• Drive a robust culture of ethics, integrity and complianceand a sense of shared responsibility, empowering business leaders to take ownership of risk as a foundation for sustainable success.
• Champion Business Success: Be a trusted advisor to the business, providing strategic and tactical solutions that drive things forward in the right way. Youll understand the complexities of our business but always strive for simplicity in your approach.
• Lead with Integrity: Act with integrity and do the right thing, always. Youll be a role model for your business partners, demonstrating sound judgment and a commitment to protecting company value and reputation.
• Lead and Develop Your People: You will build expert capability across the Compliance team. As a senior leader within GFLA, you will play a key role supporting the development of skills capability and effectiveness of your team and wider GFLA colleagues, including through sharing knowledge, best-practice, actively contributing to learning initiatives the function, alongside fostering an inclusive team environment where diverse talent thrives.
• Working in partnership with the APAC Head of Legal, you will lead horizon scanning and emerging risk identificationacross the Market Area, encompassing areas such as anti-bribery and corruption, antitrust and competition, anti-money laundering, human rights, reputational risk, and other areas of regulatory and business concern — ensuring risks are identified early and escalated appropriately.
• Lead the Market Areas Ethics and Compliance-related governance activities, managing relevant committees and boards such as the Market Area Remediation Committee and the Business Partner Review Board, while contributing to the activities of the Group Business Risk Committee.
• Oversee, together with colleagues in Compliance and other group functions, the engagement, due diligence and ongoing monitoring of third parties.
• Lead training and awareness initiatives, with the support of other Compliance colleagues, to equip stakeholders across the Market Area with the knowledge and confidence to manage compliance and risk topics in their day-to-day work.
• Assess and manageactual or potential conflicts of interest, expenditure risks (including gifts, entertainment, and hospitality), and engagements with public officials.
• Lead remediationresulting from investigations or other consequence management processes across the Market Area, whether relating to personnel, third parties, or process matters — driving accountability and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with colleagues across legal, internal audit, and other assurance functionsto assist in holistic risk identification and mitigation across the Market Area, reinforcing business ownership of risk.
• Provide input into improvementsto Compliance Office programs and initiatives, bringing Market Area insights that strengthen global frameworks.
• Gather and analyze ethics, compliance and risk-related datato continuously enhance the implementation of the program in the Market Area, ensuring any gaps in risk management practices are swiftly identified, communicated to business owners, and addressed.
• Identify opportunities for the use of Artificial Intelligencein the compliance and risk program and promote its responsible use.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• Strong ethics, compliance and risk management credentials, including at least 10 years of experience in an ethics & compliance or related risk leadership role in a multinational organization, with demonstrable breadth across multiple compliance disciplines (e.g., anti-bribery and corruption, antitrust, anti-money laundering, human rights, reputational risk).
• Alegal degreeis strongly preferred.
• Experience operating in the region, including in high-risk markets.
• Aproven track record of successfully partnering and collaboratingwith senior business, commercial, and functional leaders to identify, own, and manage risks — with a focus on enabling the business to succeed through sound risk management.
• Experience in a matrixed organizationand collaborating with different stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
• Anability to simplify complex topicsand communicate expectations and articulate risks clearly and concisely to stakeholders at all levels.
• Anability to take ownership of complex problems and projectsand drive those to successful completion.
• Experience in managing and developing a large and diverse team, with members spread across several locations.
• Impeccable judgement, maturity, and discretion, including a demonstrated ability to engage in difficult conversations and constructive dialogue with senior stakeholders to address complex and sensitive issues.
• Apositive attitude and strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the credibility and presence to influence business leaders and foster a culture of business-owned risk and integrity.
• Working proficiency in languages relevant to the Market Areapreferred.
• Ability to work across time zones.
• Ability to travel internationally

Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.

Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, thats why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Primary country and city: Singapore (SG) || Singapore

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