Compliance Manager / Lead Auditor

Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India | Experience: Mid-Senior Level (6-10 years)

About the Company

We are an organization that treats compliance, quality, information security, and operational discipline as foundations for sustainable business performance. Our teams work across functions to maintain reliable processes, protect information, meet customer and regulatory expectations, and strengthen trust. The organization is developing an integrated approach to management systems, connecting quality governance with information security and business controls rather than treating audits as isolated exercises. This role will work with stakeholders across the business to make requirements practical, measurable, and consistently applied. We value ownership, evidence-based decision-making, clear documentation, and timely action on risks and findings. The successful candidate will join a team where audit insight is expected to improve how work gets done, reduce control gaps, and support continual improvement. Our operating environment requires someone who can balance independence as an auditor with the collaboration needed to embed effective corrective and preventive actions.

About the Role

The Compliance Manager / Lead Auditor will own the governance and continual improvement of the organization’s quality, integrated, and information security management systems. The role will translate ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 requirements into controlled processes, evidence, metrics, and accountable actions. You will plan and lead internal audits, coordinate external and certification audits, evaluate process effectiveness, and ensure findings are addressed through documented root-cause analysis and corrective action. The position will partner with process owners, technology teams, and leadership to maintain an effective IMS and QMS while strengthening information-security compliance. Success means audit readiness is continuous, risks are visible, documentation is reliable, and management systems produce measurable improvements in operational consistency, customer confidence, and control effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the QMS, IMS, and ISO 27001 compliance framework through controlled documentation, risk registers, management reviews, and performance metrics that improve process consistency and assurance.
• Plan and lead risk-based internal audits across business and support processes, producing objective evidence, actionable findings, and reports that enable leadership to prioritize material risks.
• Coordinate certification, surveillance, customer, and regulatory audits by preparing evidence, managing schedules, supporting auditors, and ensuring timely closure of nonconformities and observations.
• Drive corrective and preventive action through root-cause analysis, accountable action plans, effectiveness checks, and escalation of overdue items to reduce repeat findings and control failures.
• Translate ISO 9001, ISO 27001, and applicable compliance requirements into practical procedures, controls, templates, and guidance that process owners can adopt and sustain.
• Maintain audit trails, compliance records, policies, procedures, and management-system evidence in accordance with document-control requirements, retention standards, and information-security expectations.
• Report compliance health through dashboards, trends, audit outcomes, risk indicators, and management-review inputs, enabling leaders to make timely decisions on improvement priorities.

Essential Skills & Technologies

• Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 27001, QMS, IMS, internal auditing, risk-based thinking, nonconformity management, corrective action, and management-review processes.
• Demonstrated capability to plan and conduct process, compliance, and integrated management-system audits while documenting objective evidence, clear findings, and defensible conclusions.
• Proficiency with document control, audit-tracking, risk-register, ticketing, or governance platforms, plus strong reporting skills using spreadsheets, dashboards, and structured management information.

Additional Plus

• Lead Auditor certification for ISO 9001 and/or ISO 27001, supported by practical experience managing certification or surveillance audits and working with external certification bodies.
• Familiarity with privacy, business continuity, vendor risk, regulatory compliance, or other control frameworks that complement quality and information-security management systems.
• Experience implementing or improving governance, risk, and compliance tools, automated evidence collection, audit workflows, or metrics-driven compliance reporting.

What You'll Bring

• 6–10 years of progressive experience in compliance, quality assurance, information security governance, internal audit, or integrated management systems, with ownership of audit and corrective-action outcomes.
• A relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience, with formal Lead Auditor training or certification in ISO 9001, ISO 27001, or related management-system standards.
• The ability to interpret standards, assess process maturity, identify meaningful risks, and convert requirements into controls, procedures, evidence, and measurable improvement plans.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, including the confidence to challenge process owners constructively, preserve audit objectivity, explain findings clearly, and secure timely remediation.
• Structured execution and attention to detail across documentation, evidence, reporting, audit schedules, action tracking, and management reviews, without losing sight of business priorities.
• Clear written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and the ability to work independently while coordinating effectively with operations, technology, security, and leadership teams.

Why Join Us

• Own an integrated compliance mandate spanning quality, information security, audits, and continual improvement, with direct influence on operational reliability and stakeholder confidence.
• Build a more mature, risk-based management-system environment where your audit insight leads to measurable improvements rather than recurring paperwork or isolated certification activity.
• Work across functions and leadership levels, gaining broad visibility into business processes while shaping practical controls, stronger accountability, and sustainable corrective action.
• Help connect ISO standards with everyday execution, creating scalable governance that supports growth, protects information, and strengthens customer and business assurance.

What We Offer

• A high-ownership role with scope across QMS, IMS, ISO 9001, ISO 27001, internal audits, certification readiness, and continual-improvement governance.
• The opportunity to partner with cross-functional stakeholders and leadership while building systems, metrics, and controls that create visible operational impact.
• A structured environment that values objective evidence, professional independence, practical problem-solving, and disciplined follow-through on compliance commitments.
• Meaningful exposure to quality, information security, risk, and business operations in a role designed to strengthen trust and organizational resilience.