About the role
AI summarisedThe Director, Global Safety Standards is the enterprise safety leader and architect for ResMed’s Global Supply Chain. This pivotal role defines, deploys, and sustains ResMed’s Global Safety Standards and Safety Management System, shifting safety from a compliance activity to a strategic operating model across global supply chain operations.
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Key Responsibilities
- Own and govern global safety standards for the end-to-end supply chain, including manufacturing, technical service centers, logistics, fulfillment, contractors, and key partners.
- Design, maintain, and continuously improve a globally deployable Safety Management System across all supply chain operations.
- Build deployment playbooks that convert global standards into consistent site behaviors across onboarding, leader routines, contractor management, and incident learning.
- Lead phased rollouts by site archetype and maturity, ensuring readiness criteria and sustainment controls are in place.
- Establish governance forums to position safety as a foundational enabler of supply chain resilience, continuity, and scalability.
- 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 through investigation quality, corrective action effectiveness, and systemic prevention.
- Standardize contractor onboarding requirements, safety expectations, and performance management across partners.
Requirements
- Deep EHS/safety systems expertise in manufacturing and logistics environments.
- Proven principal-level program leadership experience managing multi-site rollouts.
- Demonstrated ability to drive governance and influence without direct authority across global operations.
- Exceptional executive communication skills to convey safety's strategic value.
- Ability to embed safety into daily operational routines rather than treating it as an annual campaign.
- Experience scaling safety programs to match organizational complexity and growth.