EMEA EHS Program Leader — Key Account Governance

GXO Logistics, Inc; Schiphol; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Company car

Job summary

GXO Logistics, Inc is seeking an EMEA EHS Accounts Program Manager to lead strategic oversight of Environment, Health and Safety programs for a designated global technology account across the EMEA region, ensuring regulatory alignment, GXO standards and customer expectations while driving prevention, compliance and continuous improvement.

You will establish EMEA Safety Governance and Steering Committees, report to the VP Safety EU/UK&I, and collaborate with senior customer stakeholders and GXO

Qualifications

• More than five years’ experience managing EHS and compliance programmes for multinational customers.
• Strong knowledge of EHS management systems and international and local EHS regulations.
• Proven experience delivering EHS governance, risk management, compliance and continuous improvement across multiple countries.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with senior customer, operational and leadership stakeholders.
• Strong communication, presentation and training skills in English.
• Excellent decision-making, stakeholder influencing and conflict management skills.
• Strong results orientation with the ability to manage competing priorities and multiple strategic initiatives.
• Experience supporting fast-growing operations, new business implementations, launches or operational change.
• Flexibility to travel internationally including regular travel to Amsterdam.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight of the EMEA EHS program for the account, driving continuous improvement through a strong governance framework.
• Act as a senior EHS partner and trusted advisor to customer leadership, aligning GXO and customer EHS objectives.
• Lead EMEA Safety Steering Committees and governance forums to manage risk, monitor performance and ensure consistent execution.
• Partner with Operations, HR, Engineering, Security, Real Estate, Business Development and customer leadership teams to embed EHS excellence.
• Ensure compliance with applicable EHS legislation, customer requirements and GXO standards across the account portfolio.
• Maintain and improve the Account Safety Management System, including policies, procedures, controls and governance processes.
• Define, agree and monitor strategic EHS objectives and KPIs with customer and GXO leadership teams.
• Lead executive-level performance reporting, providing insight, analysis and recommendations.
• Identify, assess and mitigate strategic and operational EHS risks across account operations.
• Oversee incident management, root cause analysis, trend analysis, corrective actions and prevention planning.
• Lead EHS training, awareness and engagement programmes that strengthen capability and safety culture.
• Coordinate customer audits, regulatory inspections and corporate reviews, ensuring audit readiness and timely closure of actions.
• Support sustainability and environmental performance, including energy, waste, emissions, resource use and environmental reporting.
• Conduct periodic site visits, support customer meetings and audits, and provide hands-on support during new programme and process deployments

Skills

EHS governance

Stakeholder management

English communication

Risk management

Travel flexibility

Multinational experience

Job description

GXO Logistics, Inc is seeking an EMEA EHS Accounts Program Manager to lead strategic oversight of Environment, Health and Safety programs for a designated global technology account across the EMEA region, ensuring regulatory alignment, GXO standards and customer expectations while driving prevention, compliance and continuous improvement.

You will establish EMEA Safety Governance and Steering Committees, report to the VP Safety EU/UK&I, and collaborate with senior customer stakeholders and GXO