Job Description:
Role Overview
The Global Occupational Health Governance Director provides global medical leadership to protect the health, wellbeing, and work capability of our global workforce.
In this role, you will establish global occupational health standards, design the multi-year strategy, and ensure robust clinical governance and regulatory compliance. Working in close partnership with Health & Safety, People & Organization (P&O), Operations, and Benefits, you will drive continuous improvement in workforce health protection, ensuring a safe, inclusive, and highly resilient working environment.
Key Accountabilities
1. Global Strategy & Medical Leadership
Set the Vision: Develop and execute the global occupational health strategy, establishing clear priorities, standards, and a multi-year roadmap.
Alignment: Ensure the strategy aligns seamlessly with broader business needs, workforce health risks, and organizational objectives.
2. Risk Prevention & Management
Risk Assessment: Provide deep medical expertise to identify, assess, and prevent work-related health risks, including occupational exposures, physical hazards, and psychosocial risks.
Collaboration: Partner with Health & Safety and Operations to design and implement highly effective, preventative controls.
3. Clinical Governance & Regulatory Compliance
Standard Setting: Establish global clinical standards, protocols, and assurance frameworks to ensure safe, evidence-based occupational health practices.
Compliance: Oversee medical surveillance programs and ensure strict adherence to local legislations, professional practices, and confidentiality standards globally.
4. Workforce Health & Fitness for Work
Employee Support: Provide medical leadership for fitness-for-work assessments, rehabilitation, reasonable workplace adjustments, and return-to-work processes.
Inclusion: Champion workplace adjustments that support diverse physical capabilities, inclusion, and sustained employee capability.
5. Health Intelligence & Performance Management
Data-Driven Insights: Define key occupational health metrics, analyze workforce health trends, and deliver actionable insights to senior leadership.
Continuous Improvement: Use health intelligence to drive evidence-based interventions and track measurable health outcomes.
6. Service Delivery & Strategic Partnership
Operating Model: Define the global operating model and set standards for external occupational health service providers.
Team Capability: Build the capability and competency of regional and local health teams.
Cross-Functional Synergy: Partner with Benefits, Security, P&O, and Business Leaders on wellness promotion, emergency medical preparedness, and crisis management.
Experience & Capabilities
Required Qualifications
Credentials: Fully qualified Occupational Health Physician with recognized advanced qualifications/board certification in Occupational Medicine.
Experience: 15+ years of progressive, hands-on leadership experience in Occupational Medicine within a large multinational organization. This includes leading strategy across multiple geographies with differing legal frameworks.
Strategic Leadership: Proven track record of designing and implementing global occupational health strategies, with deep expertise in health risk management and clinical governance.
Business Partnering & Influence: Demonstrated ability to influence executive stakeholders and lead organizational change in highly complex, matrixed environments.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience operating within highly complex operational, manufacturing, or supply-chain environments.
Proven experience leading enterprise-level wellness, mental health, or occupational health initiatives.
Recognized external thought leadership in Occupational Health or Public Health forums.
Leadership Capabilities
To be successful in this role, the candidate must demonstrate strength in the following core competencies:
Strategic Mindset & Global Perspective – Able to look ahead…