Global HSE Compliance Assurance Lead

At Sandoz, our goal is not just to increase access, but to do so in a sustainable and responsible way :

• finding the right balance between guaranteed quality, reliable supply and appropriate pricing. Our aim is to excel at all three, ensuring we never compromise on quality.
• to protect our environment (carbon footprint, natural resources), as well as to champion diversity, equity and inclusion across our company and beyond.

The HSE Compliance Assurance Lead will lead and coordinate a broad spectrum of work activity concurrently. Through consistent data management and use of standardized processes and tools they will be responsible for leading efforts to maintain compliance, reduce risk and deliver HSE excellence.

This is a key enabling role requiring visionary thinking, strong project management skills, and ability to use data to drive decision to drive sustainable improvement while supporting other HSE activities as assigned to help build one successful HSE organisation.

Your responsibilities will include :

• Lead the Compliance Assurance program and digital tools utilization, coordinating cross-functionally to drive consistent application and implementation across the business.
• Lead HSE data management, including ensuring accurate and on-time reporting and closure of HSE metrics and data recorded in the business system of record.
• Have strong analytical and critical thinking skills to lead data trend analysis, to identify and address systematic issues and assist in action plan to drive improvement.
• Drive strategy to proactively maintain compliance, lead continuous improvement to drive operational effectiveness, efficiency, standardisation and risk reduction.
• Ability to coach and mentor HSE community to deliver program excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple issues with competing priorities.
• Remain current and / or develop competencies specific to work-scope.

What you need to bring to the role :

• Occupational Health and Safety degree or Project Management degree or technical equivalent from an accredited university / college.
• Certified HSE professional.
• Experience and demonstrated achievements with HSE programs, digitized systems and industry standards.
• Fluent English and solid communications skills (verbal and written).
• Ability to work in a matrix environment, influence and motivate diverse teams to achieve a unified goal.
• Confidently able to facilitate and deliver a variety of HSE topics and / or presentations to a diverse audience.
• Have demonstrated Lean understanding.
• Additional language skills.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.
• Based in one of the hiring locations.

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion :

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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Assurance Compliance • Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain