Business Management Vice President

Become a key member of the CAO - Licensing and Regulatory Management (LRM) Team in the Philippines, where you will drive business efficiency and effectiveness through thorough data analysis, reporting, and process optimization.

As a Vice President for Licensing Regulatory Management, your role involves overseeing project execution, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and managing relationships with stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes. 

An ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, excellent communication abilities, and a strategic mindset to drive project success and stakeholder engagement. In addition to project and stakeholder management, the role includes analyzing current business processes, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing strategies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. The successful candidate will design, develop, and maintain reports and dashboards to provide actionable insights into business performance. They will also ensure that software solutions meet business requirements and function as intended before deployment.

This role requires a strong analytical mindset, proficiency in data visualization tools, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to communicate complex data insights effectively to stakeholders. The candidate must possess excellent communication abilities and a thorough understanding of testing methodologies, with the capability to lead cross-functional teams in process optimization initiatives.

Job Responsibilities:

• Compliance Assurance: Maintain a strong focus on compliance with local laws and JPMC corporate policies, ensuring the organization operates within legal frameworks. Ensuring timely issuance of permits, licenses,  and submission of reportorial requirements to protect the firm's reputation from any violation penalties and fines.
• Regulatory Change Management: Lead the proactive tracking of regulatory developments in the Philippines to ensure timely awareness and response to changes, buy partnering with Legal and Compliance advisory on local laws and regulation
• Regulatory Inspections Management: Lead the preparation and management of regulatory inspections, ensuring all action items are addressed promptly and effectively.
• Risk and Control: Ensure the creation and maintenance of comprehensive manuals, guidelines, process documents, rules of engagement to fulfill legal obligations in the Philippines, and aligned to the firm standard to mitigate risks. 
• Regulatory Relationships: Act as the primary liaison between the company and relevant Philippine regulators, fostering strong relationships to support regulatory compliance efforts.
• Impact Assessments: Oversee comprehensive impact assessments of regulatory changes, ensuring clear analysis and actionable insights for the organization.
• Implementation Management: Drive the execution of implementation projects in alignment with Legal and Compliance, ensuring all initiatives are completed on time and within scope.
• Stakeholder Communication and Executive Presence: Develop and implement effective communication strategies to ensure all stakeholders are informed and engaged regarding regulatory changes.
• Technology Utilization: Champion the use of technology solutions for tracking and reporting regulatory developments, enhancing efficiency and accuracy.
• Management Information Systems (MIS): Maintain MIS to track and report on open issues, facilitating transparency and accountability in regulatory management.

Required Qualifications, skills and capabilities:

• More than 8 years of relevant work experience in a BPO setup with at least 5 years of managerial experience, managing a team in regulatory compliance operations
• Proven experience on Change Management, executing programs and projects as a result of local laws and regulatory requirements in the Philippines.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and accuracy. Proficiency in leveraging technology for regulatory tracking and reporting.
• Knowledgeable in business process reviews, improvements, controls testing, implementation, and quality audits.

Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications, skills and capabilities:

• Bachelor's degree in Law, Business Administration, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Strong experience on Project management and Stakeholder management, with ability to lead an initiative or play a support role on the broader team. Proactive in change management, innovation catalyst and case management resolution.
• Knowledge of industry-specific regulations and compliance requirements of PEZA, BIR, DOLE, BOC, DENR, & LGU is a plus 
• Forward thinking and demonstrates confidentiality and strong judgment in all types of situation
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities, with strong sense of urgency and ability to multi-task effectively