Job Title
International Health, Safety & Compliance Manager
Job Description
The Role
The Health, Safety and Workplace Compliance Manager (HSWCM) will provide strategic leadership, oversight, and accountability across the international office portfolio relating to Workplace Health and Safety. The role will define, implement, and continuously improve health and safety standards, ensuring a consistent, high‑quality approach across all regions. This includes reviewing Enterprise standards and adapting them, where necessary, to ensure full alignment with regional needs and local legislative requirements. This role does not include direct line management responsibilities; however, it requires exceptionally strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively influence, collaborate with, and support stakeholders across all global locations.
The HSWCM will work closely with the AVP Facilities Management to develop safety frameworks, policies, compliance programmes, and risk‑mitigation strategies. Collaboration with regional Workplace, Facilities, Technology, Security, and Risk teams is essential to ensure all locations meet both enterprise expectations and local legislative requirements.
The role requires proactive, informed leadership with global stakeholders, contributing to a high‑performing, forward‑looking Global Workplace Services team. A strong emphasis is placed on enabling safe, compliant, modern workplace environments—including hybrid office models—through expert guidance, regulatory understanding, and operational excellence.
Due to the global nature of this position, flexibility in working hours is required to effectively partner with colleagues in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.
Duties
Leadership & Global Governance
- Lead the development, implementation, and ongoing refinement of the organisation’s global Health & Safety strategy.
- Establish and govern consistent health, safety, and compliance standards across all international offices.
- Build cross‑functional alignment with Workplace, Facilities, Security, Risk, HR, EISO and Technology teams to embed a unified safety culture.
- Foster a strong culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across global stakeholder groups.
- Provide expert guidance to senior leaders, contributing to a robust operational structure and a culture of safety excellence.
- Working with the AVP Facilities, prepare, develop, and deliver board‑level Health & Safety reports for each relevant company entity, ensuring accurate visibility of risks, performance, and compliance across the global portfolio.
Suppliers, Contractors & Landlords
- Oversee International health and safety obligations relating to our leased office locations.
- Ensure all facilities meet structural, compliance, and safety standards, including lifecycle management for critical safety assets and infrastructure.
- Working with the Workplace Managers undertake audits, performance reviews, and contract renewal for health and safety related vendors
- Monitor service levels, ensuring that deliverables from external partners meet contractual, legislative, and safety requirements.
Legal & Compliance
- Maintain full oversight of global Health & Safety compliance, ensuring each location operates in line with local legislation and enterprise standards.
- Partnering with the wider team, develop, review, and enhance global safety policies, procedures, and frameworks
- Ensure adherence to statutory requirements, codes of practice, and industry best practice across all maintenance, construction, and workplace operations.
- Lead incident reporting, investigation frameworks, and root‑cause analysis across regions.
Workplace Safety & Operational Standards
- Develop and deliver strategies that provide safe, compliant, and high‑quality workplace environments across all global locations.
- Partner with the wider Workplace teams to embed safety considerations into office layouts, hybrid working environments, and daily operations.
- Ensure safety procedures are documented, communicated, and adhered to, maintaining gold‑standard compliance across the enterprise.
- Build strong relationships with local stakeholders to understand workplace risks and ensure safety measures support operational needs.
- Working with Workplace Managers, ensure safe execution and oversight of both in‑office and external events, gatherings, and meetings.
Project & Change Management
- Support international Health & Safety elements of refurbishments, relocations, fit‑outs, and construction‑related work.
- Lead risk assessments, safety planning, contractor compliance, and safe‑systems‑of‑work implementation for all relevant projects.
- Where appropriate participate in contractor selection, tender processes, compliance documentation, and safety‑related contract negotiation.
Risk Management Responsibilities
- Contribute to enterprise risk‑management frameworks by identifying, assessing, and mitigating workplace‑related risks globally.
- Demonstrate full understanding of risk policies, key safety risks, and associated controls.
- Translate safety and risk‑management principles into practical, with regionally tailored processes.
- Develop safety training programmes, performance frameworks, and awareness initiatives to embed a strong safety culture across all offices.
- Ensure Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery processes include appropriate safety considerations and are fully operational in each location.
- Working with Workplace Managers ensure all property‑related risks, including fire safety, emergency planning, evacuation procedures, and regular safety assessments are adequate and addressed in the company risk platforms
Qualifications & Experience
- Extensive experience in corporate Health & Safety management, ideally within a global or multi‑site organisation.
- Strong understanding of international health and safety legislation, compliance frameworks, and workplace regulatory requirements.
- Proven experience developing and sustaining health and safety programmes across complex, hybrid workplace environments.
- Demonstrable experience in incident investigation, risk assessments, safety audits, and workplace compliance.
- Experience supporting workplace refurbishments, relocations, and Facilities‑related safety programmes.
- Financial acumen related to safety programmes, compliance investment, and contractor oversight.
- Excellent communicator, capable of influencing at all organisational levels and across cultures.
- Relevant professional certifications (e.g., NEBOSH, IOSH, CRSP, CSP, OSHA) are essential
Working For Pacific Life Re
Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.
Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.
Benefits (Only for Permanent and Fixed Term Employees)
Leave
25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
Adoption and fertility leave
Generous enhanced parental leave
Healthcare
Savings & Retirement
Wellness
Subsidized gym membership
Access to Employee Assistance Program
Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
Time off for volunteering
Charitable matching of employee donations
You Can Be Who You Are
We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners and communities. We support all employees to thrive and achieve their fullest potential.
As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.
Pacific Life Re Values
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