Ethics Specialist jobs in Lakewood, OH

There’s never been a better time to join TravelCenters of America! For more than 50 years, millions of professional truck drivers and motorists have called our travel centers home, depending on us daily for fuel, food, truck maintenance and essential services.

Now a part of the bp family, TA is focused on growing its network of travel centers, implementing cutting edge technology and embarking on innovative alternative energy and sustainability initiatives.

From our locations across the country, to our corporate headquarters in Westlake, Ohio, every team member is a stakeholder in TA’s success. This environment offers endless career opportunities for individuals interested in sharing their ideas, growing with the company and shaping TA’s future.

Summary

The Director, Ethics and Compliance is a strategic business partner responsible for managing ethics and compliance for TravelCenters of America, including risk assessment, reporting and mitigation activities of ethics and compliance risks, etc. As the primary business touchpoint for ethics and compliance inquiries, this individual is effective in partnering with and influencing senior leaders in terms of opinion, advice, ethical dilemmas and providing solutions. They are key in promoting ethics and compliance, code of conduct, and speak up culture. The Director, Ethics and Compliance helps ensure we are returning every traveler to the road better than the came.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead, promote, and ensure bp’s safety, risk, and compliance culture and expectations are met. Prioritize safety in all aspects of the role and support the Believe in Zero safety philosophy.

• Act as the single business touchpoint for ethics and compliance enquiries and advice; and the concerns management and investigations process.
• Ensure ethics and compliance risks are identified, assessed and monitored utilizing the approach laid out in the Ethics and Compliance Risk Management Guide.
• Working with enabling functions (e.g. HR, ethics and compliance and legal), at least twice a year, report on trends and key issues (e.g. concerns, investigations, discipline, etc.) to the business/function/region leadership team.
• Support and assist in the implementation of ethics and compliance requirements, training, and communications as further detailed below. Support the annual assignment of ethics and compliance learning and track completion of required training.
• Incorporate ethics and compliance into communications plans. Help leadership develop ethics and compliance related communications for: town-halls, newsletters, code certification process, etc.
• Assist efforts to promote a speak up culture. Acts as the speak up channel, partners with the business on concerns, partners with HR on appropriate course of action. Ensure concerns are managed and investigated in accordance with the concerns management and business integrity investigations policy and procedure policy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is required; Advanced degree preferred.
• 7 years of relevant work experience i.e. in ethics and compliance, risk management and mitigation, etc.
• Able to evaluate the impact of changes in codes, policies, regulations or standards and develops recommended positions to meet commercial, reputational and regulatory challenges
• Able to influence senior leaders in terms of opinion, advice, ethical dilemmas and provide solutions.
• Able to maintain a level of independence when speaking up, in a measured manner, when there are risks to the company’s reputation or regulatory compliance
• Able to lead and supervise the development and implementation of ethics and compliance strategies, plans and programs
• Strong strategic skills and well-developed business acumen
• Proficient in analyzing data and discerning trends and themes

With us, you’ll enjoy:

• Competitive wages and annual bonus opportunity
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• 401(k) with a company match
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Tuition reimbursement
• A wide variety of discounts on technology, travel, food and fuel
• Opportunity for growth and advancement with company paid training

Not all benefit plans are available to all team members. For a more comprehensive list of benefits, please visit https://www.ta-petro.com/careers/working-in-our-corporate-office

Our travel centers serve thousands every day; not one traveler is the same and our team must reflect that. We can "return every traveler to the road better than they came" only by understanding and celebrating individualism. TravelCenters of America is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, familial status, ancestry, sex, gender, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, handicap, military service or Veteran status, genetic information or membership in any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local law. At TravelCenters of America, we invite everyone to make themselves at home.

Individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation related to our recruiting process. If you would like to request an accommodation related to the recruitment process, please email us at appada@ta-petro.com. In your email, please include your first and last name, phone number, the position and location for which you are applying, and details pertaining to the accommodation request.

Working Conditions / Physical Requirements

In this role, the employee is continuously sitting and typing, frequently talking and using eye and hand coordination and may also be required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to lift and/or move objects. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Standing, walking, bending over, and repetitive use of legs are done occasionally. All performed with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Disclaimer

This job description may not list all duties for this position. The incumbent in the position may be asked to perform other duties. TA Operating LLC reserves the right to revise the job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment, and either the incumbent or TA Operating LLC may terminate employment at any time, for any reason.