The Safe Step is partnering with a well established FMCG organisation operating across Australia and New Zealand, supporting a diverse customer base and national manufacturing footprint. The business is investing in strengthening its safety capability and shifting toward a more proactive, behaviour led approach. This role has been elevated to provide greater strategic oversight, technical depth and cultural influence across the region.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the development and delivery of an ANZ wide safety strategy and operating framework
- Review current safety practices, systems and risks, identifying gaps and priorities
- Build and implement a practical safety roadmap including short and longer term initiatives
- Drive a shift from reactive compliance to proactive, behaviour based safety
- Strengthen leadership accountability and embed safety ownership across sites
- Provide expert advice and reporting to senior leadership and board stakeholders
- Improve consistency across multiple sites while tailoring initiatives to operational needs
- Partner with HR on overlapping areas including psychosocial risk and injury management
You are a senior safety leader who can balance strategy with hands on delivery in a mid sized environment. You are comfortable working in businesses that are still developing maturity and enjoy influencing change over time. You bring a practical and commercially minded approach, with the ability to engage both shopfloor and leadership audiences and translate compliance into meaningful action.
You’ll Bring
- Proven experience in a senior safety leadership role within FMCG or a similar environment
- Strong technical safety knowledge with the ability to operate at a strategic level
- Experience driving behavioural and cultural change across complex operations
- Ability to influence, challenge and build credibility with senior stakeholders
- Strong communication skills across operational and executive audiences
- A pragmatic, solutions focused approach with sound judgement
Why Join
This is a key leadership role with the opportunity to shape safety strategy and influence culture across ANZ. You will work closely with senior leadership and play a critical role in lifting capability, improving systems and embedding a more proactive safety environment. The organisation offers stability, investment in improvement and the chance to make a visible and lasting impact.
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For a confidential discussion, please contact Jai Catrios at jcatrios@thesafestep.com.au