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Role description:
This role is to ensure the effective management of Health, Safety, and Wellbeing (HSW) compliance, risk, and value chain processes within Arcadis at global level, ensuring operational needs are met with consistency and reliability.
Ensure the organization’s HSW global operations, value chain activities, and technology initiatives operate within regulatory frameworks while proactively managing risks and optimizing value delivery across regions. It involves remote work, process‑driven guidance to external/internal stakeholders, maintaining high standards of administrative accuracy and data management across all HSW systems.
The role reports directly to the HSW Programme Director and dotted reports to the Regional HSW Operations Directors.
Role accountabilities:
Policy and Compliance Management
- Global HSW Policy Development and Implementation: Maintain and regularly update global HSW policies and procedures to reflect legislative changes and industry best practices.
- Auditing and Monitoring: Improve Central HSW second line assurance, manage central HSW self-assessments and identify areas for improvement across the organization, manage the Enterprise Risk Management tracker on behalf of HSW, and ensure adherence to HSW policies and procedures.
- Ensure adherence to international regulations (GDPR, trade compliance, financial regulations, etc.).
- Liaise with Global Compliance, Legal and Integrated Assurance teams to implement compliance controls and policies, maintain compliance frameworks across regions (APAC, EMEA, Americas).
Risk and Incident Management
- Risk Assessment and Analysis: Perform risk assessments and analyses in alignment with ARC to mitigate potential HSW risks.
- Incident and Investigation Management: Oversee global incident management, investigations, and reporting to ensure timely and effective resolution.
- Identify operational, regulatory, financial, and technology risks.
- Maintain enterprise risk registers and mitigation strategies.
- Develop risk assessment frameworks for global projects and initiatives.
- Report risk exposure and mitigation progress to senior leadership.
Operational integration and engagement
- Work with operations to embed HSW and improve adherence
- Stand up HSW communities to incorporate billable HSW professionals working with clients into Global HSW governance and ways of working
- Develop governance models for cross-regional operations.
- Create dashboards for compliance, risk, and value metrics.
- Provide leadership insights for decision-making and strategic planning.
HSW value chain management
- Collaboration with Procurement: Embed HSW standards for value-chain workers and oversee supplier due diligence.
- Map and monitor the end-to-end global value chain (suppliers → operations → customers).
- Identify efficiency gaps and cost-of-quality opportunities.
- Improve governance across partners, vendors, and delivery teams.
- Drive process standardization and value realization.
Key shared Accountabilities:
- Operational Integration: Work with operations to integrate HSW into the Arcadis Way and major project delivery.
- Collaborate with various departments (Finance, Procurement, Tech, Quality, Risk, non-financial reporting, People, Legal) to ensure seamless integration of HSW policies and standards across global policies and frameworks. Communicate risk and compliance posture to Leadership team
Decision rights
- Owns: Priorities for self-assessment, risk assessments, insight reporting
- Owns: Escalate significant compliance or risk issues to senior leadership with suggested resolutions.
- Influences: Updates and changes to HSW policies and procedures based on audit findings and regulatory changes.
Most important performance metrics
- Compliance adherence rates
- Audit results and implementation of improvements, findings closure rate
- Monitoring HSW across the value chain & efficiency improvements
- Readiness and efficiency in global emergency response
- Risk mitigation effectiveness
- Reduction in operational or regulatory incidents
Qualifications & Experience:
Key Qualifications and Professional Certifications
- Minimum 7 – 9 years’ experience in similar roles required
- Qualification in Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Science, Risk Management, or a related field
- Extensive experience in HSW compliance, risk management, and policy development within a global organization.
- Strong background in conducting HSW audits and managing incidents.
- Experience with HSW management of supply chain partners
- Demonstrate leadership capability and the ability to work collaboratively with key stakeholders at all levels and multi-disciplinary teams
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
Key Competencies
- Proficiency in collecting, analysing, and visualizing data to create actionable insights across a global landscape at a C-Suite level
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with IT, Operations, and HSW teams.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and the dynamic, complex nature of working
Resilient, a great problem solver, tenacious with your follow-through, and good at working collaboratively with all styles of leaders.
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