Chief Investigations Counsel
Listed on 2026-02-01
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Management
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Law/Legal
Job Description Summary
The Chief Investigations Counsel is the senior attorney responsible for designing, leading, and continuously improving the company’s global legal investigations program. This role oversees intake, triage, investigation, and resolution of allegations involving potential violations of law, regulation, and key policies (including anti-corruption, fraud, competition/antitrust, trade compliance, human rights, data privacy and security). The position ensures that investigations are privileged, independent, timely, and defensible, and that outcomes drive meaningful remediation, discipline, and process and controls improvements.
The role also serves as a trusted adviser to segment compliance leaders and senior management on significant matters and risk trends. The Chief Investigations Counsel will model the company’s values and integrity, maintaining independence and objectivity, protecting whistleblowers, fostering a speak up culture, and ensuring a continuous feedback loop to improve the Compliance function.
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities
Program leadership and governance
Build and lead a high‑performing, global investigations team; establish workload balancing and independence safeguards; manage outside counsel and experts; oversee budget and resource allocation.
Architect and accountable for the global investigations team and framework, including case triage protocols, escalation criteria, matter classification and management, privilege and work-product protocols, document preservation, chain-of-custody, and reporting standards.
Support the speak‑up ecosystem and partner closely with the leader of Open Reporting to ensure consistent matter management, classification, and reporting.
Prepare root‑cause reviews and lessons‑learned to inform Compliance and Business Segment leadership to drive a closed feedback loop for remediation.
Develop and maintain investigation playbooks addressing corruption/bribery (FCPA/UKBA), fraud and asset misappropriation, competition/antitrust, sanctions/export controls, privacy/security incidents, and third‑party misconduct.
Define and manage escalation to the Chief Compliance Officer, including materiality thresholds, potential government disclosure/ self‑reporting, and crisis communications alignment.
Case management and execution
Lead or supervise significant, sensitive, cross‑border, or executive‑level investigations; oversee and coordinate matter support through regional counsel, DT, HR, Security, and external counsel/experts.
Establish investigation protocols and processes along with case metrics and KPIs. Ensure investigation and interview procedures are designed to be conducted lawfully and respectfully as well as with fairness, confidentiality, and cultural/linguistic sensitivity.
Direct eDiscovery and digital forensics strategy and operations in partnership with Litigation and DT; ensure lawful data handling, defensible collection, and preservation under applicable privacy and employment laws.
Oversee the team’s efforts to draft clear, objective investigative plans, memoranda, and reports with fact findings, credibility assessments, policy/legal analysis, and recommended remediation and disciplinary action.
Coordinate remediation plans with Compliance and Business Segment leadership.
Regulatory and stakeholder engagement
Advise on legal risk and potential self‑disclosure to regulators; manage interactions with enforcement agencies and monitor/independent compliance assessors as applicable.
Prepare periodic dashboards and narrative reports for management and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors on trends, systemic risks, and program effectiveness.
Serve as a subject‑matter expert on DOJ/SEC guidance, global whistle blower regimes, and relevant standards (e.g., ISO 37001/37301), ensuring the investigations program meets or exceeds all regulator expectations and industry standards.
Policy, training, and continuous improvement
Draft and update investigations‑related policies, non‑retaliation, and disciplinary guidelines; align with Code of Conduct and enterprise risk management.
Benchmark against peers and incorporate best practices,…
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