Health & Safety Manager West & Central

at  Diageo

Job Description :
Job Title: Health & Safety Manager – West and Central Africa
Level: L5B
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Lagos
Reports To: Supply Chain Lead – West, Central, Others Africa
About Us
Diageo is a global organisation with over 28,000 versatile people and a presence in 180 countries. Across our 21 markets, our brand portfolio represents our biggest strength, and our biggest zeal. Be it our global giants, local stars, or premium brands, we use our vision, creativity, and courage to drive the growth of our products worldwide. We invent strong brands for today and for the future, upholding the quality of our products and taking personal accountability for both the history and for the future of our brands.
Africa businesses account for over 10% of Global Diageo revenue, with a workforce of more than 6,000 employees. We build wealth both directly through our operations and indirectly through our broader value chains where we support development and growth in partnership with businesses and communities.
We are committed to delivering balanced performance and our vision is to be destination of choice for Diageo investment. We are building a track record of attracting, retaining, developing, and exporting outstanding diverse talent for Diageo and unleash people to deliver phenomenal performance. We are a force for good in communities and care about the planet with focus on water, farming, and education among others, which are the most critical components for our communities.
Today, Africa is a predominantly beer region, and we will continue to growth beer fast. We also recognise an even greater opportunity in spirits and recently reorganised our business to put focus on redefining and accelerating spirits to double its current revenue through the SWC organisation.
Dimensions
Financial: Double NSV by 2030
Market Complexity: The region covers 31 countries across Central and West Africa. It leads a full TBA portfolio: beer, RTD’s (Ready-To-Drinks), local spirits, international spirits and top end luxury spirits.
The countries’ economies vary significantly and present different levels of opportunity and challenge for business growth as well as language diversity. There is a high level of volatility across the countries and steadfast competition within the beer and spirits portfolio given Africa has the largest vibrant and growing LPA -34 consumer base.
In Diageo Africa context, the margin profile is attractive, with a higher focus on spirits and outsourcing of beer manufacturing. Our extensive and thrilling brand portfolio serves consumers across diverse demographics and delivers against consumers’ in-culture Premiumization experiences.
Our extensive and exciting brand portfolio serves consumers across diverse demographics and occasions and delivers against consumers’ in-culture Premiumization experiences. It is also well positioned to tap into future trends.
Distributor and creative partnerships are important for driving growth for this remit as well as strategic choices to be made on portfolio, production, logistics and route to market.
Given its scale and margin profile, West and Central is essential for the success of Diageo in Africa. And there is also significant scope of business expansion – new territories, new categories and new routes to market.
Purpose of Role
Demand Health and Safety specialist to support office health and safety requirements in Nigeria and drive demand Health and Safety awareness and compliance in West and Central Africa especially passionate about Event planning and execution.
The H&S Specialist will work with the wider West and Central team to develop awareness of health and safety requirements and to lead proactive activities. · Promote Safety, Health campaigns

Role Accountabilities

• Implementation of Policies and Procedures: Drive and implement corporate health, safety policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with Diageo standards.
• Assess all demand event plans to ensure outstanding planning for health and safety management
• Ensure use of Enablon app for reporting of all H&S risks in the region and follow up on actions
• Ensure all new employees in all locations are inducted to H&S standards and are set up to work with zero harm
• Develop the art of safety in West and Central Africa
• For Nigeria: Legislative Compliance: Interpret Nigerian H&S legislation and provide advice to the workforce accordingly, ensuring compliance with regulations.
• Work with global health and safety teams to roll out all new initiatives

Qualifications, Experience, and leadership

• Specialist qualification in Occupational Health and Safety,
• Experience with Enablon H&S app and Diageo standards
• Strong communication expertise
• Strong risk management experience
• Highly desirable, able to speak French
• Analytical ability: To be able to calculate HSE Key Performance Indicators

Critical thinking - A strategic and enterprising leader able to make high-reaching strategic choices that deliver for the short and long term.
Commercial foresight – An understanding of business end to end and providing robust counsel to executive team.
Performance oriented - Has an acute focus on performance and results, is highly accountable and determined to win.
Agile - Demonstrates pace and energy, responding quickly to emerging threats and opportunities,
Influencing – can navigate a matrix organisation and build brilliant relationships internally and externally.
Personally resilient – able to maintain emotional balance in the face of pressure and high-performance expectation.
Externally focused - Great external radar to spot opportunities and challenges and strongly networked into key communities of guides to understand market and legislation trends.
Celebrating our inclusive and diverse lifestyle is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, gender, disability, religion, or ethnicity.
We know that for our business to succeed and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills, and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the outstanding contribution each person brings.
Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.
Character Is Everything
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Lagos HQ
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2024-06-1

• Implementation of Policies and Procedures: Drive and implement corporate health, safety policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with Diageo standards.
• Assess all demand event plans to ensure outstanding planning for health and safety management
• Ensure use of Enablon app for reporting of all H&S risks in the region and follow up on actions
• Ensure all new employees in all locations are inducted to H&S standards and are set up to work with zero harm
• Develop the art of safety in West and Central Africa
• For Nigeria: Legislative Compliance: Interpret Nigerian H&S legislation and provide advice to the workforce accordingly, ensuring compliance with regulations.
• Work with global health and safety teams to roll out all new initiative