Job Description

Working at Allegis Global Solutions (AGS) is more than just a job. It’s a career. It’s a community of people who invest in your development and empower you to blaze your own trail. Each of us is here to create real, measurable impact that moves needles. We operate beyond "roles" or "jobs" to realize the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to a bigger idea. Because we believe that when you build a workforce that’s designed to harness human enterprise, you design a workforce that’s built for impact.

At AGS, we help companies all over the world transform their people into a competitive advantage. It’s not about filling seats. It’s about designing workforces to meet missions and unleash the most transformative power in business today: The power of human enterprise.

With services around the globe, we have a point of view on the future of work that enables us to be a transformative partner in the way work gets done for our clients’ organizations. Meeting clients where they are, we design a plan and guide them along a transformational journey, applying bold actions and diverse minds to solve the most complex challenges – from permanent and extended workforce management to services procurement, consulting, direct sourcing and our Universal Workforce Model™.

We also represent over 100 countries and speak dozens of languages. So as you’re building relationships and doing your job, you’ll be exposed to other cultures and advancement opportunities while expanding your knowledge of global markets and strategies.

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This role is accountable for the end-to-end design, implementation, and sustained effectiveness of the EMEA compliance framework, including ownership of ISO 9001 and ISO 22301 certifications and regional regulatory adherence. This role serves as the regional authority for compliance outcomes, translating regulatory, certification, and governance requirements into scalable operating models that enable the business while maintaining a defensible risk posture. The role partners closely with business leaders, legal, risk, operations, and external auditors, while retaining clear accountability for audit readiness, remediation outcomes, and regulatory response across EMEA. The role will have authority to recommend prioritisation of remediation activities and escalate material compliance risks to ensure sustainable risk mitigation across the EMEA region.

This role plays a critical part in reducing AGS’s EMEA risk exposure by embedding sustainable compliance, governance, and assurance mechanisms that support growth, audit confidence, and operational resilience.

Responsibilities

Act as the regional owner for EMEA compliance and governance standards, supporting consistent adoption across programmes and escalating material risks or noncompliance to senior leadership where required.

ISO Certification Ownership (9001 & 22301)

• Owns and is accountable for the end-to-end implementation, certification, and sustained audit ready posture of ISO 9001 and ISO 22301 across the EMEA region.
• Maintains ownership of the ISO control framework, including control design, control inventory, evidence standards, internal audit execution, and management of external certification audits.
• Ensures corrective actions are fully implemented, validated, and embedded into businessl operations.

Regional Regulatory Compliance

• Own the development, integration, and ongoing maintenance of EMEA country level compliance profiles and regulatory playbooks, ensuring legislative requirements are embedded into standard operating models and sustained over time.
• Provide assurance that regulatory changes are effectively operationalised postimplementation, working with client delivery and shared services teams to validate continued compliance.
• Partner with business units to translate legal and regulatory developments into clear regional risk positions and actionable recommendations for leadership.
• Maintain oversight of EMEA compliance obligations and emerging legislation (e.g. Umbrella Company regulation), ensuring timely, proportionate, and coordinated business responses.

Assurance, Audits & Remediation

• Planning and execution of process audits and thematic reviews.
• Leads remediation efforts for identified compliance gaps (e.g., background screening, supplier compliance, quality assurance), owning root cause analysis, corrective action plans, and validation of closure.
• Ensures remediation activities result in measurable and sustainable risk reduction.
• Stakeholder & Client Engagement
• Serves as the regional compliance contact and escalation point for compliance inquiries, ensuring responses are accurate, consistent, and aligned with the organization’s risk appetite.
• Partners with regional delivery, legal, and operational teams to enable compliant client solutions without compromising regulatory or certification obligations.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in regional or multicounty compliance and internal control environments, with accountability for outcomes rather than advisory support alone.
• Strong working knowledge of ISO certification frameworks (ISO 9001, ISO 22301, or comparable standards), including audit readiness and ongoing certification maintenance.
• Proven ability to translate complex regulatory and compliance requirements into practical, scalable business solutions.
• Experience working across legal, risk, operational, and leadership teams to drive alignment, accountability, and timely decision making.
• Ability to operate independently in a matrixed environment, managing multiple priorities while maintaining clear ownership.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging senior leadership and external auditors.

Accountability Statement

This role is the designated owner for EMEA compliance outcomes and ISO certifications, accountable for sustained regulatory adherence, audit readiness, and transparent risk escalation to leadership.

Additional Information

At AGS we operate a hybrid working policy – we recognise individuals want the flexibility of working from home but with the option to be in an office when needed. Our UK AGS office locations are Bracknell, London and Birmingham with client site locations across the UK. If you’re lucky enough to be within a commutable distance of one of our AGS collaborative offices, this will be your allocated work home but you’ll still have the piece of mind to flex your working week accordingly. On occasion some of our job adverts will state an in-office/on-site need but rest assured you’ll be with a wonderful team to work, develop and grow.

We want everyone to be able to perform at their best during our recruitment process and as a Disability Confident Committed employer, we will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long‑term condition who best meet the minimum or essential criteria for the role. We want our recruitment process to be inclusive and accessible to all, so if you have a disability or long‑term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any adjustments, changes or do anything differently, please let us know by emailing EMEAAGSTAPTeam@allegisglobalsolutions.com and we will do our best to make suitable arrangements.