Deciphex
Risk & Compliance Specialist (Med Tech/SaMD)
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Risk & Compliance Specialist (Med Tech/SaMD)
Group Risk & Compliance Coordinator
Location Dublin, UK, or hybrid remote (with occasional travel to Dublin, UK, or USA).
Critical Disclosure
This role is not for traditional risk/compliance professionals from banking, insurance, or finance. If you’ve spent your career in financial services and want more of the same, please do not apply.
Deciphex is a medtech company operating at the intersection of AI-powered medical software, clinical services, global commercial contracts, investment ESG obligations, and multi-entity supply chains. This role is not a specialist function—it’s the central connector tying everything together.
There is no team structure beneath this role. It is a hands-on operational procedure with standardized processes and protocols, but many will require you to build systems from scratch. Success depends on ownership, adaptability, and curiosity.
This is a real job with real impact, offering a fast-growing medtech environment—but only if you thrill to variety, ownership, and broken norms. If you prefer a defined “lane,” keep looking.
Role Purpose
Own and execute the operational risk & compliance, insurance, and ESG workload for the Deciphex Group under the Director of Group Risk & Compliance (CRCO).
- The CRCO sets direction and framework; you implement it daily.
- This is the operational engine of the function.
- No strategic, governance, board or regulator-facing work—this is execution.
Core Workstreams & Responsibilities
1. Risk & Compliance Coordination
- Maintain and prioritise the group risk register, ensuring that critical signals rise to the surface.
- Aggregate risk inputs from across the global team into a single, Board and investor-ready report.
- Spot blind spots others miss and make clear, actionable recommendations.
2. Critical Supplier Risk
- Identify and map supplier dependencies that could cripple operations.
- Ensure risks are tracked, understood, and proactively managed.
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3. Insurance Programme
- Multijurisdictional renewals (focus: Ireland, UK, US, Canada)
- Manage mid-term changes, certificates, and broker submissions.
- Coordinate claims handling.
4. ESG Data Reporting
- Gather, validate, and quality-check annual ESG data for investor reporting and due diligence.
- Work with specialists, but own the integrity of the output.
5. Incident & Compliance Coordination
- Maintain the group incident log, assign ownership, and drive closure.
- Prepare audit packs and support diligence inquiries.
6. Compliance Calendar & Operation Run
- Build and maintain the consolidated compliance calendar (audits, policy reviews, regulatory deadlines, renewals).
- Pull status updates for CRCO’s reporting.
What This Role Does Not Do
❌ Design frameworks, policies, or registers (CRCO’s remit). ❌ Engage with boards, audit committees, or regulators directly. ❌ Set policies, escalation matrices, or risk appetite thresholds. ❌ Lead incident investigations, audit responses, or specialised compliance work. ❌ Own clinical governance, ISO 27001, GDPR, AI Act, or MDR submissions. ❌ Negotiate contracts or interpret legal assessments.
Person Specification
Essential
✔ 5+ years in risk/compliance, but not in financial services (healthcare/medtech/Life Sciences preferred). ✔ Multi-stakeholder coordination—drive projects, check outputs, escalate only when necessary. ✔ Manage 10+ live workstreams simultaneously without losing track of items. ✔ Experience with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), prioritisation for senior decision-makers. ✔ Discretion—handle sensitive commercial, insurance, and operational data appropriately. ✔ Self-starting—own complex workflows independently with a judicious workload distiller. ✔ Strong organisational skills: Calendar-driven, meticulous, deadline-driven.
Desirable (But Not Necessary)
🔹 Experience in supplier/vendor dependency mapping or resilience assessments. 🔹 Working familiarity with GDPR, ISO 27001, MDR/IVDR, CLIA/CAP (able to parse and coordinate). 🔹 Group/compliance experience across multi-geographies and entities. 🔹 Basic ESG reporting understanding (formats like GRI, SASB/ESRS/GATE).
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Judgment Above Infrastructure
We don’t need experts in every function. ESG is learnable; insurance is trainable. What matters is bringing instinctive judgement:
- Screening 50+ risks across 10+ teams and picking the 2 that truly demand attention.
- Deciding when to push back on processes, when to adapt, and when to fight for change.
- Using rigour (not blind automation), and collaboration (not defensiveness).
Why Apply? What We Offer
🔸 Flat hierarchy but structural direction from the CRCO. 🔸 Hands-on exposure across insurance, vendor risk, ESG, and compliance. 🔸 Competitive salary + BHP (restricted share plan). 🔸 Remote-first work flexibility.
More About Deciphex
📍 Mission: Accelerate drug development and enhance cancer diagnosis accuracy for pathologists. 🌍 Global footprint: Dublin, UK (Oxford), Chicago, Toronto. 🚀 Growth: 230+ team members preparing for rapid scaling.
Our team is a mix of AI engineers, operations professionals, and clinical specialists. Every role has teeth: we cure diseases, build software, and look for the real gaps others miss.
Selection Note
No cold applications, no CV sprinting. Every candidate is considered by the team. You’ll win an interview if you manually customise your CV/initiatives statement to show how you meet our criteria. That customisation ability is something only candidates who read carefully will provide.
About Us – Beyond the Role
- Read more about Deciphex here.
- Browse our Careers page and team stories.
- We are an inclusive employer—equality opportunity applies to all applicants.
Q: Why apply now? A: Medtech changes why you wake up excited.
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