Director, Health & Safety IPC

Director, Health & Safety IPC

Job Description

Director, Health & Safety IPC

Your Job

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. 

Role Overview & Primary Accountabilities:


* Deploy focus segment aligned health and safety strategies that align with Global Health & Safety on mandatory minimum standards, processes and controls.


* Deploy Global Health & Safety initiatives in support of the focus segment strategy, including standardized systems, processes, platforms, and programs (based on leading practice) that are adopted and sustained by the focus segment operations/functions.


* Direct Global Health & Safety talent-building initiatives that ensure the focus segment operations and functions have requisite skills and sufficient capacity to effectively implement and maintain systems, processes, platforms and programs deployed.


* Conduct routine checks/self-assessments of the site Health & Safety program maturity and performance (i.e., status of compliance and risk management considering local legal requirements and K-C Perf.

and Mgt.

Standards)


* Monitor/interpret evolving government policies/legal requirements and assess operational or functional implications, informing the focus segment site and business leaders, recommending action when appropriate.


* Champion site efforts to elevate/continuously improve Health & Safety program maturity and performance.


* Capable of using digital systems/platforms to deploy and maintain the focus segment Health & Safety monitoring, measurement and recordkeeping systems to track and ensure required reporting processes (for compliance and other KPIs) are in place and include controls to verify data quality and completeness.


* Partner with operational/functional leadership teams:


* To routinely plan, set objectives, establish priorities and allocate resources to achieve targeted health & safety program maturity and performance improvement and/or to address functional sustainability risk/opportunities (as further described in the role-specific accountabilities below); and


* As needed, to address/remedy critical Health & Safety matters/crisis, especially those associated with health and safety events, audits and/or other matters related to compliance, conformance or reputation.


* Represent the organization at relevant Health & Safety Councils or forums, contributing to Global Health & Safety initiatives, strategies, plans, etc.


* Drive a positive safety culture by deploying/sustaining efforts to elevate leadership mindsets and ...