EHS Operations Excellence (COE) Director
Merck - Ireland, Ireland, US
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Join our Global Safety & Environmental (GSE) Safety Center of Excellence team as the EHS Operations Excellence Director! This Director will be a part of the Global Safety & Environmental (GSE) Safety Center of Excellence (COE) team. The key responsibilities in this leadership role include creating and tracking EHS Standards, Metrics, Training, Communication, and Change Management. You will guide the EHS Operational Excellence team to develop and execute governance for our EHS Program, ensuring it meets the highest standards of safety and compliance. You must be a dynamic and innovative leader who is a strategic thinker, passionate about driving EHS excellence and developing effective solutions to support EHS compliance.
Key Responsibilities:
Management of team. Lead and manage a team dedicated to overseeing the governance of the Company's EHS Program, focusing on process improvements, data analytics, change management, and global communication strategies.
EHS Capability Build. Drive the EHS Capability Build initiative and ensure knowledge transfer at all organizational levels. Develop and implement standard user-friendly solutions to manage EHS programs, identification of compliance gaps and oversee the EHS program change management process.
EHS Data. Perform data analytics to determine, monitor and communicate the effectiveness of safety programs. Develop the EHS Data Strategy and governance framework to evaluate EHS program effectiveness, communicate compliance gaps so to enable leaders to proactively deploy actions to fix compliance gaps.
EHS Continuous Improvement. Partner with Safety and Environment experts, GSE leadership, and sites to identify strategic actions for EHS continuous improvement.
feedback and incident reviews, with a focus on simplification, standardization, and digitization.
EHS Program Change Management. Develop and deploy standard change management strategies to ensure programs are communicated and changes are effectively adopted and realized throughout the company.
EHS Business Processes Optimization:Develop and implement a strategy to optimize EHS business processes by addressing challenges through stakeholder feedback and incident reviews, focusing on simplification, standardization, and digitization.
Education Minimum Requirement:
Bachelor's degree in environmental, safety, or related technical discipline.
Required Experience & Skills
BS/BA in safety, environmental, ergonomics or a science field required; M.S. is desirable.
8 + years applied professional EHS work experience.
Direct experience managing a site or corporate-level EHS program.
Demonstrate strong project management techniques.
Strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving ability.
Ability to influence both horizontally and vertically
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including comfort interfacing with site leaders.
Ability to develop, implement and articulate department goals and strategies.
High level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others.
People Management experience.
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$153,800.00 - $242,200.00Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here.
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Requisition ID:R344712
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