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Bridgestone Americas, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, Compliance Program Effectiveness & Analytics to lead testing and analytics for Bridgestone West across the Americas and EMEA.
The role emphasizes structured testing, data-driven insights, and cross-functional collaboration in a lean team. The successful candidate will develop and mature the compliance program, advance data analytics capabilities, and help build AI-enabled tools, with a preference for Nashville-based work.
Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a "Bridgestone West" strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.
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Bridgestone, a global leader in the tire and rubber industry, is seeking an experienced compliance professional to join its Ethics & Integrity Compliance team as Senior Manager, Compliance Program Effectiveness & Analytics. This is a high-impact role within a lean, multi-functional team that covers a broad geography spanning the Americas and EMEA regions (Bridgestone West).
The successful candidate will lead efforts to build and mature Bridgestone West's compliance program by developing a structured approach to compliance program testing and effectiveness, advancing the team's data analytics capabilities, and helping to build out AI-enabled compliance tools. This person will play a central role in helping the team demonstrate the effectiveness of the compliance program and generate meaningful, data-driven insights across the program's key risk areas.
Like all members of the Bridgestone West Ethics & Integrity Compliance team, this person will contribute across multiple areas of the program. That breadth is part of what makes our team effective and offers strong professional development opportunities. In addition to the primary focus areas described below, this role will support other parts of the compliance program as needed, including the anti-bribery program.
The role will report to the Vice President and General Counsel for Ethics & Integrity Compliance and is preferably based in Nashville.
Design and build a structured compliance program testing and monitoring framework to assess the real-world effectiveness of Bridgestone West's ethics and compliance program, identifying gaps between policy and practice.
Conduct compliance program assessments and controls testing across key risk areas, documenting findings, root causes, and actionable recommendations for program improvement.
Develop and maintain compliance program metrics and KPIs, and communicate performance insights and trends to senior leadership, the law department, and relevant business stakeholders.
Drive continuous improvement of the compliance program based on testing outcomes, industry benchmarking, and evolving regulatory expectations.
Build internal frameworks, tools, and resources to support consistent and repeatable compliance assessments across the organization.
Build and advance Bridgestone West's compliance data analytics capabilities, with a focus on making compliance data more actionable and accessible to program leadership.
Develop approaches to use data to track activities and trends related to the compliance risk registry, enabling more proactive, risk-based decision-making across the program.
Help build out the team's use of AI tools to support compliance program activities, including investigations support and trend identification, in a practical and thoughtful way.
Design and build compliance dashboards - including using Power BI - to provide leadership and key stakeholders with clear, real-time visibility into program activities, metrics, and risk indicators.
Translate compliance data and analytics outputs into clear, compelling insights for senior leadership and business stakeholders who may not have a technical background.
Monitor and assess emerging analytics tools, AI capabilities, and industry developments applicable to ethics and compliance programs.
Contribute to broader ethics and compliance program activities as a member of a small, high-performing team that supports each other across multiple program areas.
Support the anti-bribery program, working collaboratively with the EMEA-based senior manager who leads that program, including contributing to training, risk assessments, or related projects as needs arise.
Assist with other compliance program priorities from time to time, which may include supporting communications, training initiatives, or stakeholder engagement efforts.
Collaborate effectively with key cross-functional partners, including Internal Audit, Finance, Human Resources, and Enterprise Risk Management, to support a cohesive and integrated approach to compliance and risk management.
Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in ethics and compliance, in