Head of Occupational Health and Safety Governance

• Lead the Occupational Health and Safety Program, providing subject matter expertise, support and guidance as required to all Novartis operations worldwide. Own and update as appropriate, the HSE handbooks relating to the Occupational Health and Safety framework.
• Collaborate with Novartis HSE Extended Leadership teams and major stakeholders to develop an aligned global HSE strategy to manage risk, ensure compliance, prevent incidents and deliver industry-leading safety performance.
• Collaborate with the other teams as necessary to deliver impact and support projects (e.g. Innovation, Technology & Data Science, Corporate ERC Assurance, Enterprise Risk, Policy & Controls, Human Rights, ESG, NEM etc.)
• Collaborate with Global NEM teams on local health events and disease outbreaks which may have an impact on the business.
• Advise Operations HSE Heads and business leaders on local context and potential HSE challenges and opportunities as needed.
• Leverage external subject matter experts and other resources as needed to deliver the required results and quality of support.
• Facilitate the definition of HSE and HSE KPIs, monitors performance and analyses trends in collaboration with operations to identify improvement opportunities. ensures accurate reporting of HSE relevant data.
• Develop an overall HSE training and competency framework for HSE.
• Build and develop talent driving a continuous improvement mindset in the organization. Provide coaching and support.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Strong background in Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) or Occupational Health.
• Knowledge and experience of implementing HSE Management or Occupational Health processes and systems and training.
• Able to concisely describe risk based HSE Management Systems to address Occupational Health and Safety risks in our operations. This includes but is not limited to Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention Programs, Risk reduction techniques, Risk Assessment, Process Safety, High Risk Activities etc.
• Strong leadership skills and experience in direct management of a team of SMEs. Able to influence leadership to implement health and safety programs.  
• Curious to deploy new ideas and to use new innovative digital tools and platforms for providing HSE direction.
• Fluent English both written & verbal.

Why Novartis? Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

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