Human Rights & Compliance Sustainability Program Lead (m/f/d)

At Fresenius Medical Care, we are the global leader in kidney care, committed to improving the lives of patients with chronic kidney disease. Our mission is to deliver high-quality, innovative products, services, and care across the entire healthcare journey. Guided by our vision—“Creating a future worth living. For patients. Worldwide. Every day.”—we work with purpose and compassion, supported by a global team of over 110,000 employees.

Within our Care Enablement segment, we develop and provide life-sustaining medical products, digital health solutions, and therapies that empower clinical teams and improve patient outcomes. Our FME Reignite strategy drives transformation through innovation, efficiency, and sustainable growth.

Our values guide how we work:

We Care for our patients, each other, and our communities

We Connect across teams and borders to deliver excellence together

We Commit to doing things the right way— growing with purpose and leading kidney care with integrity and innovation

As Human Rights and Compliance Sustainability Program Lead, you will play a key role in advancing our global Human Rights Due Diligence and sustainability compliance agenda. You will shape and continuously improve our human rights program, ensuring compliance with evolving regulatory requirements while partnering with stakeholders across the organization to promote responsible business practices throughout our operations and value chain.

Your Responsibilities:

Lead and continuously develop the global Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) program, ensuring alignment with applicable requirements including the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG), EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), CSRD/ESRS, UN Guiding Principles and OECD Guidelines.

Act as a member of the Human Rights Office pursuant to §4(3) LkSG and the senior subject-matter expert and primary point of contact for human rights due diligence, advising business functions and senior management on relevant risks, regulatory developments and compliance requirements.

Conduct and coordinate regular and ad-hoc human rights risk assessments across the companys own operations and global value chain, identifying key risks and defining appropriate preventive and remedial measures.

Monitor the effectiveness of the human rights risk management system, track corrective actions and remediation activities, and regularly report human rights performance and key developments to senior management and relevant governance bodies.

Further develop policies, processes, procedures, training concepts and digital tools supporting the HRDD program, including maintaining the companys human rights policy statement and related commitments.

Coordinate human rights and sustainability-related disclosures and supporting data for regulatory and sustainability reporting, including CSRD/ESRS, LkSG documentation and applicable international reporting requirements, including e.g. UK Modern Slavery Act, Canadian Forced Labour Act.

Oversee the human rights grievance mechanism, ensuring accessibility, confidentiality, protection against retaliation, appropriate case documentation and continuous assessment of its effectiveness.

Partner with Procurement, Human Resources, Sustainability, Legal, Internal Audit, Regulatory Affairs and other functions to implement risk-based due diligence measures, including supplier assessments, audits, contractual requirements and conflict-minerals due diligence.

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