Vice President, Ethics and Compliance

NMC Healthcare is one of the largest private healthcare networks in the United Arab Emirates. Since 1975, it has provided high quality, personalised, and compassionate care to its patients and is proud to have earned the trust of millions of people in the UAE and around the world.

NMC’s network is made up of 85 medical facilities, including JCI-accredited multi-specialty hospitals, medical centres, community clinics, day surgery centres, fertility clinics, home health services, and long-term care facilities. It employs over 12,000 people and serves over 5.5 million patients every year .

Job Summary

Primarily responsible for overseeing and leading the development, implementation, and management of the ethics and compliance, data privacy, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs. Provide strategic leadership, direction, and guidance to ensure that NMC conducts its business operations in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and ethical standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and enhance the ethics and compliance program to ensure alignment with applicable laws, regulations, industry standards, and NMC’s policies.
• Developing and updating policies, procedures and standards of conduct, conducting risk assessments, implementing monitoring and auditing processes, and providing guidance on ethical and compliance matters.
• Develop and deliver comprehensive ethics and compliance training programs to employees by designing and conducting training sessions, workshops, and other educational initiatives to raise awareness of ethical and compliance issues, promote a culture of integrity, and ensure employees understand their roles and responsibilities in complying with laws, regulations.
• Oversee and manage investigations of alleged violations of laws, regulations, company policies, or ethical standards by conducting investigations, ensuring appropriate documentation and reporting, and providing guidance on corrective actions, disciplinary measures, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate ethics and compliance risks across NMC by conducting risk assessments, monitoring and analyzing trends, and developing and implementing risk mitigation strategies to minimize NMC's exposure to ethical and compliance risks.
• Chair or support key governance committees (e.g., Ethics & Compliance Committee and A.I Committee).
• Collaborate and liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including legal, human resources, internal audit, external auditors, regulatory bodies. Serve as a visible and values-based leader across the organization.
• Lead the development, delivery, monitoring, and reporting of the NMC Group’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy. This includes aligning ESG initiatives with business objectives, engaging stakeholders, ensuring regulatory compliance, and reporting progress against ESG goals to internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead the data privacy program, ensuring compliance with applicable data protection laws (e.g., ADGM, UAE Federal, and Emirate-specific healthcare regulations, including the DOH and DHA). Act as Group Data Protection Officer and liaise with regulators as necessary.

Education and Certification

• Bachelor’s Degree - Business, law or related fields. Master’s degree will be an advantage.

Experience

• 10+ years of experience in ethics, compliance, legal, or related roles, with a track record of success in developing, implementing, and managing ethics and compliance programs of which 4 years in a leadership role,
• Healthcare experience in UAE will be an advantage