Senior Associate/Manager - HR Compliance & AI Governance

About the role

Lilly is hiring a Senior Associate/Manager for its Global HR Solutions team in Cork, Ireland. The role supports compliance for HR Solutions across a defined set of countries: it helps define what controls are needed, checks that they work, spots risks and keeps the approach up to date as HR uses more AI. It also supports the process for reviewing, approving and monitoring AI and automation used across the employee lifecycle. The role checks controls against the agreed standard but does not run day-to-day controls or deliver the technology.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and effectiveness of the HR Solutions compliance framework, including access management, business continuity, integrity assessment, documentation control and personnel history file governance.
• Maintain a current view of compliance risk across the regions, escalate where local legal, works council or data protection rules differ from the global standard, and close control gaps caused by change.
• Act as the internal point for compliance judgement calls and keep the documented rationale for positions taken.
• Support the HR Solutions AI governance framework, keeping a register of AI and automated capabilities with risk tier, intended use, data accessed, owner and review cadence.
• Apply an assessment gate before any AI touches HR data or employee-facing processes, assess risks of AI tools used in people decisions and vendor tools, and run ongoing monitoring of AI-enabled processes.
• Coordinate periodic assurance activities such as integrity assessment, BCP and BIA, and provide input on cyber security incident response involving HR data.
• Build compliance literacy across HR Solutions, turn recurring findings into recommendations, and interface with the DSAR Centre of Excellence.

Required profile

• 5+ years of compliance, risk, audit or data protection experience in a regulated environment, ideally covering workforce data.
• Working knowledge of GDPR across multiple jurisdictions, with practical understanding of where local variation changes the obligation.
• Experience contributing to control framework design and operating within one.
• Sufficient technical literacy to understand how automated systems reach outputs, what data they draw on and where they fail.
• Ability to hold a position under delivery pressure and to distinguish material risk from theoretical risk.

Required skills

• GDPR
• Compliance and risk frameworks
• Data protection and AI governance

What we offer

• Anticipated wage of EUR 32,250 - 82,610 depending on education, experience, skills and location.
• Possible company bonus for full-time equivalent employees.
• Benefits including pension plan eligibility, vacation, healthcare, flexible benefits, life insurance, time off and leave, and well-being benefits.