OH&S Program Leader (Global KC-Site)

OH&S Program Leader (Global KC-Site)

Job Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 

As the OH&S Program Leader, you'll be responsible for developing, implementing, and managing comprehensive EHS programs to ensure a protection of our people, planet and reputation. This role involves collaborating with peers and all aspects of the businesses we support to ensure compliance to regulatory and KC policies. You'll be accountable to manage change, conduct training sessions, and ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations, KC policies and EHS

standards.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and implement global OH&S policies, standards, guidelines and procedures that supports the EHS&S Operating System.

• Promote our OH&S culture through continuous improvement initiatives. 

• Stay informed about existing and evolving government policies, laws, regulations, and other applicable Health, and Safety obligations globally.

• Define and implement program roadmaps, strategic implementation plans and defined accountability that is applied globally while partnering with peers and all aspects of the businesses we support to ensure compliance to regulatory and KC policies.  

• Provide leadership and subject matter expertise in the identification of trends, analysis, countermeasures, that protects our people, planet and reputation.   

• Be up to date on technological, process, industry advancements and apply those insights into deployment of opportunities to protect our people, planet and reputation.   

• Deploy program metrics and supporting data management/analytics platforms that identifies performance gaps and drives improvement actions across aspect of the EHS&S Operating System.

• Manage the risk reduction and compliance plans of the programs, leveraging risk prioritization that informs annual resource planning. Tracking and driving delivery of these plans for both capital and non-capital initiatives.    

• Drive global compliance to standards across the enterprise and develop action plans to remedy substandard conditions. 

• Lead safety assessment activities across the enterprise to drive compliance with governmental, industry and K-C standards. 

• Use insights from assessments and identified compliance gaps to establish minimum control standards and compliance requirements across the enterprise. 

• Develop and execute an enterprise-wide training and education curriculum by leveraging various learning processes and embedded operating systems, ensuring that all sectors and regions develop and maintain the required hard and soft skills and competencies. 

• Work cross-functionally in a heavily networked environment, using leadership, high degree of influence without authority, and business acumen to evaluate risks and opportunities and propose appropriate courses of action to mitigate risks. 

• Effectively manage multiple priorities, make decisions and drive solutions quickly and efficiently, working independently as well as within a variety of teams. 

• Effectively intervene during periods of crisis with situational awareness and adaptability.

• Provide requisite guidance and assistance to Supply Chain leaders, OH&S leaders, EHS leaders and local Program Owners for compliance with government policies, laws, regulations, and OH&S obligations.

• Make recommendations to leadership on complex matters related to crisis/risk management and compliance assurance.

• Use digital systems/platforms to monitor existing preventive, detective, and corrective OH&S controls at operating sites.

• Ensure effective functioning or require correction as needed to manage relevant OH&S risks to an acceptable level.

• Foster relationships with external partners and groups, including local auditing resources, governmental agencies, NGOs, industry groups, and scientific organizations.

• Stay abreast of relevant OH&S policy and regulatory developments and align with best practices in Partner with relevant Global OH&S colleagues, HR, and other functional experts to develop, deliver, and maintain an OH&S compliance, conformance, and controls curriculum.

• Build requisite skills, capabilities, a