Area Head HSE – NAM

Area Head HSE – NAM

Requirements

• Strong logistics and supply chain expertise
• Qualified HSE professional or several years in HSE senior roles
• Collaborative and able to connect and create followership across a wide variety of stakeholders across different geographies and levels
• Confident and able to articulate well, including towards senior leaders
• Experience managing multiple direct reports
• Ability to communicate and present complex topics clearly to all levels
• Skilled at working autonomously with accountability

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of functional experts spanning Occupational Health, Safety, and Environment within the Area
• Maintain and develop the Area HSE structure and framework that enables continuous identification and management of risk to protect people and assets from serious harm
• Ensure strong cohesion between business and functional needs and objectives, ensuring continuous alignment of activities and priorities
• Support Area L&S Operations to implement and comply with the Global APMM HSE Standards, ensuring the safety of people and customer supply chains while accommodating country-specific variations e.g., legislation, international standards etc.
• Collaborate with S&R and APMM teams to deliver tools, guidance, and assurance that help mitigate or eliminate frontline risks, and provide support to address gaps in compliance where necessary
• Ensure the HSE teams within scope are suitably qualified, equipped with the necessary skills and training, while continuously improving their competence levels through close collaboration with the S&R CoEs and People Function
• Engage and inspire teams within the area, both those under direct and indirect line management to collaboratively lift the standards across our operations. Create a culture of care and inclusion, where diverse voices are heard and where people feel safe to speak up
• Collaborate with other Safety & Resilience leaders within APMM to share and build knowledge and expertise, routinely and constructively challenging the status quo to lift the bar higher across APMM
• Stay connected to industry trends and regularly seek external knowledge and inspiration, to spark innovation in a way that is relevant for our organizational context
• Ensure HSE impact- and risk assessments during Growth & Integration are performed.

Preferred Qualifications

• University degree in fields of study associated with role (Health & Safety, Security, Risk, Crisis, etc.) or equivalent is desirable but not mandatory