Job Description
Our mission is simple: we want Amazon to be the place where our customers can find, discover and buy anything online. Whatever our customers want, we will find the means to deliver it.
Our vision is to become Earth's best employer and Earth's safest place to work. This is your chance to make history. We aim to have the most effective and innovative WHS team the world has ever seen. We are as passionate about WHS as we are about exceeding customer expectations.
The WHS function is part of the Operation teams and supports our Amazon associates worldwide who are responsible for controlling the vast range of ways we serve customers. They work very hard to ensure that our customers receive what they want, when they want it, and we want to ensure they are able to do so as safely as possible, and as a responsible member of the communities, we serve.
Here at Amazon we seek an experienced WHS Professional to join the Workplace Health and Safety Governance team and play a critical role in supporting WHS procedure development for the RoW business units. The successful candidate will administer develop procedures, engage partners for approvals, and collaborate in the rollout for new protocols. You will work collaboratively with many areas of the business to recommend standards that ensure WHS excellence but are flexible enough to remain relevant for our diverse business and operations in Asia Pacific, Middle East & North Africa, and Latin America.
Job ID: 2809948 | Amazon Business EU Sarl
- Manage the WHS S&P program for for EMEA, APAC, LATAM, and international emerging markets
- Develop WHS procedures for select business units in line with the global strategic plan
- Recommend and support a plan for internal procedure execution, and partner with the global team to create a continuous loop of feedback that will enable RoW that achieve WHS excellence.
- Gathers, interprets, and uses complex data to develop actionable steps that will improve processes and optimize results. Assess company and customer obsession needs, receives robust information, and analyzes it, providing trends and network areas for improvement.
- Collaborate with globally approved third party WHS partners.
- Recommend new WHS strategies/programs/technology that are relevant to or enhance existing strategy and lead from concept to delivery. Support the adoption of WHS strategy, and influence change across stakeholders.
- Stay attuned to changing regulations and internal WHS performance to recommend changes when required.
- Learn and monitor Amazon's plans for growth, in new geographies as well as new businesses, and recommend adjustments to audit programs to reflect new risks.
About the team
We are an global governance team that obsesses over the workplace health and safety of our associates and partners around the world. The role is in the 'Rest of World' Team partnering with operations in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa, as well as contributing to global programs. It's a collaborative team bringing together expertise in regulatory affairs, WHS management systems and auditing.
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Health & Safety, Engineering, or related field
- Knowledge of legal regulations as they relate to workplace health & safety
- Experience in program or project management
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
Preferred qualifications
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
- Experience leading process improvements