About the role
AI summarisedThe Director, Global Safety Standards is the enterprise safety leader for ResMed's Global Supply Chain, responsible for defining, deploying, and sustaining global safety standards and a Safety Management System across all supply chain operations globally. This role shifts safety from compliance to a strategic operating model, embedding it into leadership routines and operational excellence.
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Key Responsibilities
- Own and govern global safety standards for the end‑to‑end supply chain, including manufacturing, technical service centres, logistics, fulfillment, contractors, and key partners.
- Design, maintain, and continuously improve a globally deployable Safety Management System across all supply chain operations.
- Ensure the Safety Management System operates as a scalable operating system, embedded into supply chain management routines, not a compliance overlay.
- Build deployment playbooks that convert standards into consistent behaviours: onboarding, leader routines, contractor management, incident learning.
- Lead phased rollouts by site archetype and maturity, ensuring readiness criteria and sustainment controls are in place.
- Position safety as a foundational enabler of supply chain resilience, continuity, and scalability. Establish governance forums/cadence that drive action: clear owners, decisions, and follow-through.
- Coach leaders on safety leadership expectations (what good looks like in behaviours, conversations, and presence).
- Partner with Site Leaders to ensure safety outcomes are owned by line leadership across manufacturing, logistics, and distribution operations.
- Own the global safety assurance and audit framework for the end‑to‑end supply chain, ensuring consistent verification of standards and system effectiveness.
- Drive incident learning discipline: investigation quality, corrective action effectiveness, and systemic prevention.
- Standardise contractor onboarding requirements, safety expectations, and performance management.
- Embed safety requirements into sourcing/partner governance and commissioning readiness.
Requirements
- Deep EHS/safety systems expertise in manufacturing/logistics; strong grasp of global standards deployment.
- Proven principal-level program leadership: multi-site rollout, governance, influence without authority.
- Exceptional executive communication: can translate safety into strategic business risk and operational excellence language.
- Strong partnering approach works with (not around) site leaders and EHS teams; balances global consistency with local requirements.
- Change leadership capability understands adoption, reinforcement, and sustainment.