Job Description:

Scholastic and Book Fairs

“For over a century, Scholastic has connected children to stories that ignite imagination, inspire curiosity, and build a lifelong love of reading. As the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, Scholastic champions authors and illustrators who shape culture, expand empathy, and celebrate the power of storytelling.

Scholastic Book Fairs are wondrous in-person experiences that empower kids to discover books for themselves.  Taking place in schools and rooted in Scholastic’s greater mission to use the power of books for the betterment of all kids, Fairs bring entire communities together.

At Scholastic Book Fairs, we bring “the best school day of the year” in 110,000 unique pop-up shops annually.  Irresistibly defying expectations of how one must act in a library, Fairs raise over 200 million dollars in funds and resources for schools that host Fairs.  And we’re just getting started…

We’re here to deliver an experience that inspires kids toward greatness.   In everything we do, we are committed to ensuring every kid, parent, caregiver, teen/tween, book fair organizer, and Employee feels seen, respected, and welcome as part of the Scholastic Book Fairs family”.

THE OPPORTUNITY

 Scholastic Children’s Book Group is looking for a Senior Director of Safety and Health (H&S), in this executive role, you will be responsible for setting the strategic vision and direction for the health and safety of our domestic warehousing and distribution operations. You will champion a proactive safety culture, ensure network-wide compliance, and drive continuous improvement. This role requires effective collaboration with cross-functional leaders in operations, distribution, fleet, risk management and HR partners to ensure strategic alignment of H&S with our overarching business objectives. The successful candidate will be a visible and influential safety leader who instills a culture of responsibility, ensuring all leaders take ownership of safety performance. Requires the ability to set clear expectations, hold teams accountable to high standards, and foster a culture where accountability is shared, consistent, and measurable. This position reports into the VP, Human Resources and Safety.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Standardize and continue improving safety systems, policies, training, campaigns and programs to reduce risk and ensure compliance with federal, state and local laws.

• Develop strategy and execute various H&S processes to include environmental compliance, occupational health and safety, workers’ compensation, transportation safety, contractor management, emergency response and business continuity.

• Design and execute injury prevention programs and initiatives to motivate and influence the creation of a world class safety culture and minimize injury risk.

• Lead and mentor the Distribution Safety function and manager, fostering a collaborative, high-performing safe driver culture focused on best practices, tools, preventative practices and excellent customer service.

• Create a network of internal and external alliances to develop and implement H&S policies, programs, procedures, standards, training, and processes.

• Analyze and identify trends of injury and accident frequency/severity; develop and direct the implementation of training programs using the appropriate media.

• Identifies/anticipates potential problems, leads root-cause analysis, evaluates robustness of corrective action plans and oversees plan implementation.

• Serve as the senior-most H&S authority, representing the company in regulatory, incident management and customer relationship matters.

• Oversee training programs related to H&S compliance, emergency response, and core safety process and procedures. Ensure teams are equipped to identify and avoid risks and respond effectively.

• Travel required is expected to be between 20-30% but may flex up or down with the needs of the business.

• Other duties as assigned.

Thank you for your consideration in choosing Scholastic.

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Qualifications

HOW YOU CAN FIT (Qualifications)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Exceptional leadership and change management skills with the ability to influence and engage at all organizational levels.

• Creates collaborative environment with cross-functional partners, assures regular/appropriate two-way communications flow, builds and maintains relationships with employees, peers and key stakeholders to align safety initiatives and