Vice President, Compliance Lead

Morgan Street Holdings•Chicago, IL

1d•$265,000 - $290,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The VP, Global Compliance Lead is responsible for centralizing and governing all regulatory, environmental, safety, and client/brand-mandated compliance requirements across the global packaging and supplies portfolio. This role will lead a team that establishes a single, integrated compliance framework by consolidating external regulations and client-specific standards into one authoritative global source of truth, ensuring consistency, transparency, and scalability across markets. The role also leads anticipatory issue management, proactively identifying emerging risks and regulatory changes to enable forward-looking, compliant decisions.

Requirements

Brings regulatory & technical expertise.
Has the ability to interpret complex legislation and translate into practical, scalable requirements.
Delivers proactive risk anticipation and the ability to shift the organization from reactive issue management to proactive horizon scanning.
Experience with structured compliance processes and systems.
Thinks strategically and can leverage compliance expertise to create commercial advantage and win new business.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Packaging Engineering, Chemical Engineering / Materials Science, Sustainability, Food Safety and Compliance, Supply Chain, Regulatory Affairs.
10–15+ years of relevant experience, with regulatory compliance / quality systems, packaging product development or manufacturing, and global supply chain or category management.
Experience leading and developing a team (preferably in a global organization).
Experience in foodservice packaging, consumer packaging, or related industries preferred.
Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional client projects.
Technical depth in foodservice packaging, consumer packaging.
Proactive and forward-thinking balanced with structural rigor.
Enterprise leadership, especially in an organization requiring matrixed influence and global alignment.
Strategic mindset and commercial acumen.

Nice To Haves

MBA particularly with operations or supply chain focus

Responsibilities

Establish and maintain a global “single source of truth” for regulatory requirements, environmental and sustainability standards, product safety requirements, and client and brand-mandated compliance standards.
Aggregate, harmonize, and reconcile external regulations with internal client/brand requirements into a unified framework.
Define global policies, standards, and governance models to ensure consistent application across markets.
Eliminate fragmentation by consolidating compliance ownership into a centralized, globally governed model.
Lead a global anticipatory issues management framework to proactively identify emerging regulatory changes, shifts in environmental and sustainability requirements, evolving client/brand expectations and claims standards, and industry risks across materials, safety, and supply chain.
Assess impact and interdependencies across regulatory and client-driven requirements.
Develop forward-looking guidance, risk mitigation plans, and positioning statements.
Provide early visibility to leadership and clients to enable proactive decision-making.
Partner with Sustainability, Quality & Food Safety, Sourcing & Supplier Management, and Legal/Regulatory Affairs.
Engage directly with clients and brand stakeholders to understand evolving internal standards, align on compliance expectations, and translate requirements into scalable global frameworks.
Report at a regular cadence regional regulatory requirements, client/brand requirements, and anticipatory issues.
Ensure compliance requirements are aligned with category strategy, innovation, and cost decisions.