Senior Director, Occupational Safety

**Position Overview**:
The purpose of this role is to develop and implement a safety transformational strategy across the LATAM region. Aligned with our global strategy in a very dynamic context across the region, lead a health & safety culture step change and accelerate the progress of our system capabilities, infrastructure and programs while ensuring best-in-class leadership and network orchestration through partnership, governance and innovation
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Elevate the long-term strategy and the step change plan, implement quick wins, and the mid-term initiatives for safety culture transformation in Latin America, in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, such as bottlers, vendors, public policy, and government agencies.
- Champion safety and health organizational strategies, infuse your innovative ideas, and embed a proactive safety culture deep into our operational processes and company values.
- Shape, steward, and fast-track safety initiatives across the Operating Unit, ensuring optimal alignment with our global occupational safety and health commitments.
- Create a ripple effect of change and influence across safety governance, compliance, and innovation schemes, all aimed at protecting our employees and elevating our regional and global reputation.
- Take charge of essential organizational and capital expenditure decisions related to occupational safety.
- Demonstrate adaptive leadership in managing safety incidents and crisis resolution.
- Act as a true business partner to go above and beyond the role to embed Safety in the business and make connections between Safety and business outcomes (short/long term).
**Key Focus Areas**:
Safety & Health Culture (S&H) and Performance Excellence:
- Lead the occupational safety and health culture transformation to ensure excellence is a core value embedded in everything we do across the system.
- Direct the overall S&H culture transformation to build and manage the excellence performance enablement systems and programs.
- Improve our System KPIs performance and progress that accelerates business results.
Safety and Health Strategy:
- As a key member of the LATAM Quality, Safety & Environment (QSE) leadership team, ensure within the global occupational safety and health strategy and commitments, the most optimum and accelerated implementation of the LATAM occupational safety strategy.
- Ensure accelerated progress of the S&H systems and programs while ensuring best-in-class leadership through partnership, governance and innovation across the Beverages for Life (B4L) supply chains.
- In collaboration with Corporate, Technical Innovation & Supply Chain functional heads, Customer & Commercial, Franchise Bottlers, Occupational Safety Lead, influences the operating unit (OU) and regional S&H agenda and investments.
Governance, Compliance:
- Ensure all license to operate and that KORE sustainability requirements and OU governance are in place and in line with the global governance framework requirements.
Innovation:
- Ensure occupational S&H innovation initiatives.
- Lead the implementation support for all S&H aspects that protects our people and enhances our regional and corporate reputation.
OU Safety and Health Network Orchestration:
- Drive organizational alignment on operational S&H across Regions, Bottling partners and Corporate Safety & Environmental (S&E).
- Active contributor in the Global S&E Council.
- Champion Coca-Cola S&H and overall culture and strategies in the LATAM region to enable execution and culture development.
- Bring the external view in, drive external engagement and benchmarking, and ensure leadership presence in industry associations.
- Proven track record of leading a large-scale safety transformation and managing change from a safety culture viewpoint. Experience gained in industries such as chemical, oil & gas, automobile, pharmaceutical etc.
- Strong external perspective and safety culture practices to propose and implement transformative safety measures applicable to our business framework.
- Technical / Safety operations > 8 - 10 years of experience
- Proven leadership expertise with a distinguished history in directing large-scale transformations and orchestrating effective change management programs.
- Deep-rooted operational experience combined with a strong foundation in setting up and running health & safety leadership and management systems.
- Exceptional communication skills (in English and Spanish), capable of simplifying and translating complex concepts into tangible business insights.
- Ability to influence, inspire, and foster a culture of safety and empathy within diverse teams.
- Resilient and agile, ready to leverage crisis situations towards creating long-lasting improvements.
**Location**: Mexico or Brazil preferred
**Skills**
Leadership; Taking Initiative; Communication; Cultural Transformations; Compliance; Influence; Safety Culture; Interpersonal Leadership; Safe Ope

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