
Compliance- Health Industries - Pharma Life Sciences- Senior Associate
Chicago, ILJob$77–202K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
The Senior Associate supports regulatory risk and compliance work for pharma and life sciences clients. The role analyzes complex issues, manages workstreams, evaluates controls and data, and contributes to compliance strategies. It also involves client collaboration, preparing deliverables, and guiding junior team members while developing technical skills and business context within PwC’s Risk and Compliance practice.
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The Opportunity
As a Compliance- Health Industries - Pharma Life Sciences- Senior Associate you will support regulatory risk and compliance work for clients in the pharma and life sciences space, helping interpret regulatory requirements, assess compliance needs, and develop practical approaches that fit complex operating environments. As a Senior Associate you will analyze multifaceted issues, manage assigned workstreams, build meaningful client connections, and guide junior team members while developing your technical skills and business context within our Risk and Compliance practice. In this role at PwC, you will contribute to compliance strategies, evaluate controls and data points, and help clients respond to evolving regulatory expectations across health industry operations.
Responsibilities
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Analyzing regulatory compliance requirements for healthcare and life sciences clients and translating them into practical workstream activities
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Assessing client controls, policies, and procedures to identify gaps in compliance, governance, and risk management
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Developing compliance reviews, testing approaches, and documentation tied to regulatory expectations across pharma, med tech, payer, and provider environments
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Interpreting data and operational evidence to support findings, recommendations, and issue tracking
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Preparing client deliverables that summarize risks, observations, and actions for remediation planning
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Supporting compliance program implementation across areas such as third party risk, privacy, records management, sanctions, anti-money laundering, and ethics
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Coordinating with client teams to gather information, clarify process details, and move assigned tasks forward
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Mentoring junior team members on methods, documentation quality, and task execution while reviewing work for completeness
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Building client relationships through responsive support and a clear understanding of industry-specific compliance challenges
What You Must Have
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At least a Bachelor's degree
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At least 3 years of experience
What Sets You Apart
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Experience supporting compliance or regulatory risk in pharma or life sciences
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Knowledge of health industry regulatory requirements and operational risks
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Experience interpreting data and recommending compliance focused actions
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Familiarity with compliance frameworks, controls, and governance activities
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Experience using critical thinking to break down complex concepts
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History of building client relationships and mentoring junior team members
The salary range for this position is: $77,000 - $202,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. All hired individuals are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance
As PwC is an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity); age; disability; genetic information (including family medical history); veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or, any other status protected by law.
PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.
Learn more about how we work: https://pwc.to/how-we-work
For only those qualified applicants that are impacted by the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, San Diego County Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable, arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with these laws. At PwC, we recognize that conviction records may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship to responsibilities such as accessing sensitive company or customer information, handling proprietary assets, or collaborating closely with team members. We evaluate these factors thoughtfully to establish a secure and trusted workplace for all.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,794 open Compliance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$77–202K/yr
- Illinois median$111–160K/yr86 salary ranges
- US median$113–178K/yr1,911 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $140K, is 3% above the Illinois median midpoint ($135K) — in the middle half of Compliance salary ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 103 open Compliance jobs in Illinois and 2,794 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Capital One18 open
- Google4 open
- Invenergy4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Compliance postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,401 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,206 of the 2,794 open Compliance jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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