Job Description
As a Criminal Law Specialist (m/f/diverse), you will play a key role in strengthening our global compliance framework, ensuring integrity, trust, and legal certainty across all business areas worldwide.
Your Key Responsibilities:
Criminal Law & Compliance Expertise
- Act as the central expert for all criminal law–related matters and advise the business on appropriate responses
- Continuously develop and improve the global Compliance Management System with a focus on criminal law
- Monitor regulatory developments and translate them into practical compliance improvements
- Drive global compliance initiatives, including policies, training, communication, and integrity culture
- Support continuous compliance risk analysis and early detection mechanisms in close cooperation with relevant functions
- Build and maintain a strong global compliance network and collaborate closely with the Compliance Central Team
Compliance Case Management
- Design and operate an effective, independent, and confidential compliance case management system
- Act as the key driver in assessing, prioritizing, and assigning incoming reports to the appropriate investigators
- Oversee ongoing investigations and evaluate outcomes and lessons learned
- Strengthen awareness and trust in the global whistleblowing system through training and communication
- Prepare case statistics, trend analyses, and management reporting
- Define and enforce appropriate measures in case of confirmed violations
- Functionally lead the Compliance Case Management team and coordinate key stakeholders worldwide
Qualifications
- Fully qualified lawyer or legal counsel with relevant professional experience
- Solid knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards
- Confident user of MS Office; advanced Excel and Power BI skills are a plus
- Business‑fluent German and English (written and spoken); additional languages are an advantage
- Independent working style
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, both written and verbal
- High ethical standards, integrity, and a strong sense of responsibility
- Strong intercultural competence combined with a collaborative, team‑oriented mindset
Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome.
Additional Information
The well-being of our employees is important to us. That's why we offer exciting career prospects and support you in achieving a good work-life balance with additional benefits such as:
- Training opportunities
- Mobile and flexible working models
- Sabbaticals
and much more...
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Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging are important to us and make our company strong and successful. We offer equal opportunities to everyone - regardless of age, gender, nationality, cultural background, disability, religion, ideology or sexual orientation.
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