Ethics & Compliance Manager
3 days ago
Cheltenham
Ethics & Compliance Manager 📍 Cheltenham (2 days per week in office – Monday & Wednesday) 💷 £50,000 + excellent benefits 🏡 Hybrid working | 🤝 Supportive culture | 🚀 Opportunity to shape and lead The Opportunity ✨ An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Ethics & Compliance Manager to join a collaborative and purpose-driven organisation within a newly created role. Reporting directly to the General Counsel & Company Secretary, this position has been created to lead and develop key ethics, compliance, and governance activity across the organisation. This is a highly visible role offering the opportunity to shape frameworks, strengthen controls, embed compliance culture, and support the organisation in navigating a broad range of regulatory and operational risks. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across the business, helping ensure compliance activities are proactive, practical, and embedded into day-to-day operations while acting as a trusted advisor on ethics, governance, and risk-related matters. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building structure, improving processes, influencing culture, and operating autonomously within a broad and evolving remit. Key Responsibilities 📌 • Lead day-to-day ethics and compliance activity across the organisation, • Develop, implement, and enhance compliance frameworks, policies, controls, and governance processes, • Provide oversight and monitoring across key regulatory risk areas including:, • Health & Safety, • Safeguarding, • Anti-bribery & corruption, • Modern slavery, • Environmental compliance, • Lead health & safety policy development, audits, risk assessments, and incident investigations, • Support emergency planning and organisational readiness activities, • Maintain and embed safeguarding frameworks, policies, and training across the organisation, • Design and maintain anti-bribery and corruption controls including gifts & hospitality registers, conflicts of interest, and whistleblowing mechanisms, • Support and maintain audit, assurance, and compliance monitoring activities including ISO-related frameworks, • Conduct compliance reviews, investigations, and risk assessments across business activities, • Produce reports, metrics, and updates for senior leadership and board-level stakeholders, • Deliver compliance training and awareness initiatives across the organisation, • Support business change projects by ensuring compliance risks are identified and effectively managed, • Monitor regulatory developments and maintain awareness of evolving legislation and best practice, • Build strong relationships across the organisation to promote a positive and embedded compliance culture, • Lead and support the wider compliance function, including line management of a Health & Safety Advisor About You 👀 We’re looking for an experienced compliance, ethics, governance, audit, or regulatory professional who is confident operating independently within a broad and evolving role. You may come from backgrounds such as: • Compliance or regulatory management, • Audit or governance, • Risk and ethics, • Legal with a move into compliance, • Public sector, education, regulated, or corporate environments You will likely bring: • Significant experience within compliance, ethics, governance, audit, or risk management, • Experience managing or improving compliance frameworks and controls, • Exposure to health & safety, safeguarding, or wider regulatory compliance activity, • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, • Experience producing policies, governance documentation, and board-level reporting, • Confidence operating autonomously within a visible role, • A pragmatic, commercially aware, and solutions-focused mindset, • Excellent organisational, analytical, and communication skills Experience supporting ISO, audit, safeguarding, or environmental compliance frameworks would be highly beneficial. The Ideal Candidate 🌟 You will be: • Highly organised and self-sufficient, • Pragmatic and commercially aware, • Comfortable managing competing priorities, • Calm, credible, and confident with stakeholders, • Proactive and hands-on, • Someone who enjoys improving processes and creating structure, • Collaborative and relationship-driven, • Passionate about embedding positive ethics and compliance culture, • A trusted advisor with sound judgement and high professional integrity This role will particularly suit someone who enjoys ownership, autonomy, and making a visible impact within a supportive environment. What’s on Offer? 🎉 • Excellent work/life balance ⚖️, • Flexible and trust-based working culture 🤝, • Free gym access 💪, • Subsidised canteen and barista coffee ☕, • Modern refurbished offices 🏢, • Team socials and company events 🎊, • 5 volunteering days per year ❤️, • Mental health and wellbeing initiatives 🧠, • Free onsite parking 🚗 The wider legal and compliance team is known for being collaborative, supportive, and genuinely down-to-earth, with a strong emphasis on teamwork and shared success. Additional Information 📋 • Hybrid working: 2 days per week in the Cheltenham office (Monday & Wednesday – non-negotiable), • Salary: Circa £50,000 depending on experience, • This is a newly created role with genuine scope to shape and influence the organisation’s compliance approach