New opportunity! HSE&S Director role at AkzoNobel in Amsterdam

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About the company
AkzoNobel is a leading global paints and coatings company and a major producer of specialty chemicals, with leading market positions and brands in countries around the world. We operate in a number of important market segments ranging from buildings and infrastructure to transport, industrial and consumer goods. We’re also the sector leader in sustainability and are number one in the renowned Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In practical terms, that means our sustainable solutions are in your lives, and those of your friends and family, every day. We’re the people that make it possible for you to do what you need to do.

Responsibility
A wide-ranging leadership role for an experienced, visionary and highly effective HSE&S Director

Health, Safety, Environment & Security (HSE&S) is integral to all AkzoNobel’s objectives and our strategy is to deliver leading performance across all our activities in terms of HSE&S standards, performance and capability.

Within this context, your mission in this role is to lead HSE&S activities across our world leading Performance Coatings (PC) Business Area (BA). In particular you identify critical gaps in HSE&S
capability and resources, develop and support the implementation of long term plans to close those gaps. Where necessary you leverage HSE&S capability and resources from outside the BA, which demands strong networking skills to ensure cooperation across organizational boundaries.

A further core task is to assist the BA leader and the BA Operations Director in allocating HSE&S improvement tasks to the appropriate members of the BA Management Team, coaching them in their (HSE&S) roles. This requires strong influencing skills as you create ownership across supply chain, manufacturing, site directors, HR directors, administration, finance, marketing, sales, RD&I, and other functions.

Is this a challenge that matches your talents and ambitions as an entrepreneurial and results oriented problem solver and negotiator with real project management skills? Can you drive the continuous improvement of HSE&S processes, policies, and standards? Do you have the interpersonal skills to work inclusively with the HSE&S community so that the business experiences ‘one voice’ that will meet collective objectives? Above all, can you make a real difference within our dynamic, multinational and multicultural business environment?

If you offer all this and more, we invite you to apply for the position of


HSE&S Business Area Director

The role and its responsibilities
Encompassing policy, capability building and governance, this is a high profile HSE&S role based at Amsterdam, the Netherlands. You will be a member of an HSE&S Leadership Team that develops and champions an HSE&S Common Platform for all our global BAs and business units (BU).

Thus you provide fresh thinking so that we achieve world class HSE&S improvement across a number of areas:

Delivery
You guide line management in developing and ensuring implementation and delivery of HSE&S policies, plans, practices and goals for their BU or site. All activities are in line with the AkzoNobel HSE&S Policy, Directives, Rules & Procedures, and in compliance with relevant regulatory requirements. In doing so you embed a safety culture and manage hazards, and you brief the Operations Director on BA performance, capability and needs.

Continuous Improvement
You act as a change agent for continuous improvement across the BA’s HSE&S standards, performance, capability and culture. This requires you to spend time on the shop floor as you assess and report performance and compliance. You also lead analysis of BA-specific needs and gaps including lagging units, and you proactively case manage injuries and incidents.

Capability
You leverage expertise to extend HSE&S knowledge throughout your own unit and others, participating in AkzoNobel expert pools for the delivery of the Safety Common Platform and HSE&S Faculty learning programs. You also audit and/or perform incident investigation, and conduct training activities.

Strategy
As a high level HSE&S thinker, you contribute to the strategy for the design, deployment and delivery of the AkzoNobel HSE&S Policy, Directives, Rules & Procedures and Safety Common Platform, agreeing and aligning objectives.

People
As an inspiring leader you attract, lead, coach, appraise and develop employees in line with HR guidelines and operating model. You also facilitate the talent management process, and nominate HSE&S business partners for the expert pools. And you successful manage and drive activities within the BA and respective BU’s through a matrix organization of direct and indirect reports and peers.

Job requirements / Candidate profile
To apply for this position you must possess all the following attributes:

• Bachelor, Masters or Doctorate in HSE&S, Engineering or a related discipline;
• Strong strategic and conceptual skills and the ability to execute and follow through;
• Able to gain acceptance of plans and activities by convincing others to move willingly towards a desired goal or course of action;
• Relevant experience in different multiple units, disciplines, locations and/or other manufacturing companies;
• Broad (people) management capabilities
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including fluent written and spoken English.

Application details
For further information, please contact Marjan van Grinsven, Talent Resourcing Manager, +31 (0)88-010 6789, option 2. Only online applications will be accepted, please go to www.akzonobel.nl/careers, 170000RR, or use the ‘apply’ link.

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