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Job Function:
Legal & Compliance
Job Sub Function:
Health Care Compliance
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
DePuy Synthes is recruiting for a Business Compliance Liaison ,locatedin Amersfoort, Netherlands
Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.
In the Health Care Compliance (HCC)domain, the role acts as a pre‑alignment and advisory function, ensuring that Professional Education initiatives are compliant by design.
Scope and responsibilities:
Acts as the link between Health Care Compliance and Professional Educationduring the initialplanning phaseof professional education events and activities.
Provides early compliance pre‑alignmentto ensure activities are structured correctly before execution.
Serves in an advisory roleto the Professional Education team on compliance requirements related to events, engagements, and interactions.
Prepares, reviews, and adjusts contractsin line with Health Care Compliance policies and standards.
Ensures clarity on scope, roles, and boundaries between compliant governance and operational execution.
Main leadership commitments involved in the role
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Executive summary of the role
In the Health Care Compliance (HCC)domain, the role acts as a pre‑alignment and advisory function, ensuring that Professional Education initiatives are compliant by design.
Scope and responsibilities:
Acts as the link between Health Care Compliance and Professional Educationduring the initialplanning phaseof professional education events and activities.
Provides early compliance pre‑alignmentto ensure activities are structured correctly before execution.
Serves in an advisory roleto the Professional Education team on compliance requirements related to events, engagements, and interactions.
Prepares, reviews, and adjusts contractsin line with Health Care Compliance policies and standards.
Ensures clarity on scope, roles, and boundaries between compliant governance and operational execution.
Main leadership commitments involved in the role
Connect
Acts as a formal interface between Professional Education and Health Care Compliance, ensuring aligned interpretation of requirements during planning and execution of educational activities.
Bridges clinical, educational, economic, and governance perspectives, ensuring that initiatives are both value‑driven and compliant by design.
Gathers structured insights from customers and internal stakeholders to continuously improve professional education models, while ensuring traceability and audit readiness.
Collaborates closely with internal experts (Compliance, Medical, Professional Education, Legal, Operations) to ensure consistent governance and role clarity
Shape
Ensures that education initiatives avoid product‑, price‑, or inducement‑driven approaches, reinforcing outcome‑focused and ethically sound engagement models.
Shapes compliant engagement and partnership models, including service‑based and value‑based education approaches, within regulatory and policy constraints.
Provides early challenge and guidance during planning phases to ensure contracts, structures, and execution models are compliant before implementation
Influences internal stakeholders to embed compliance‑by‑designas a standard element of professional education and value initiatives.
Growth
Acts as a trusted advisor and thought partnerto Professional Education teams, with a distinct advisory—not execution—role for Compliance matters.
Supports continuous improvement through lessons learned, best‑practice sharing, and standardized governance approachesacross markets.
Reinforces a culture of ethical engagement, accountability, transparency, and long‑term sustainabilityin all external interactions.
Helps the organization mature from transactional execution toward trusted, compliant, and outcome‑oriented partnerships
Business Environment and Context
Increasing pressure on healthcare systems to deliver better outcomes at lower cost.
Shift toward value-based healthcare, bundled payments, and integrated care models.
Growing need fordifferentiated,evidence-driven value propositions.
Multiple stakeholders involved inpurchasingand decision-making processes.
High expectationsfor measurable impact and transparency of value delivered.
QualificationsRequired:
Qualifications
Required:
Relevant experience in Health Care Compliancewithin a regulated healthcare or MedTech environment.
Experienceoperatingeffectively in cross‑functional, matrixed organizations, working with Compliance, Medical, Professional Education, Sales, Legal, and Operations.
Strong capability to provide early guidance and governanceduring planning phases, including stakeholder alignment, contract preparation, and compliance pre‑alignment.
Solid project‑management skills, with the ability to manage parallel initiativeswhilemaintainingclear role boundaries and documentation.
Strategic mindset combined with pragmatic, hands‑on execution, particularly in advisory and coordination roles.
Excellent communication, influencing, and advisory skills, with the ability to challenge constructively and ensure clarity across functions.
Fluency in Dutch and English(written and spoken).
High levelof integrity, professionalism, and ethical awareness, with a strong personal commitment to compliant and transparent ways of working.
Fluency in Dutch and English (written and spoken).
High integrity and professionalism.
Preferred:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business, health economics, life sciences, or healthcare management.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Communication, Complaints Investigation, Compliance Management, Corporate Governance, Critical Thinking, Data Reporting, Detail-Oriented, Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) Platforms, Healthcare Industry, Health Care Regulation, Internal Auditing, Legal Services, Medical Compliance, Organizing, Problem Solving, Process Improvements
The anticipated base pay range for this position is:
€64,000.00 - €103,040.00
Benefits:
In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.
*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.
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