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- EMEA EHS - Cluster Manager
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Job Title: EHS Cluster Manager (France, BeNeLux and Germany)
Department: Legal, Risk and Compliance
Reports To: Head of EHS EMEA
Location: Paris, France
Level: Associate
Job Description
Job Title: EHS Cluster Manager (France, BeNeLux and Germany)
Department: Legal, Risk and Compliance
Reports To: Head of EHS EMEA
Location: Paris, France
Level: Associate
This role is a key part of the EMEA EHS Team, an international group dedicated to driving excellence in Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Quality (EHS) across the EMEA region.
About the EMEA EHS Team
The team is responsible for supporting the implementation of EHS strategies across corporate offices and service lines within EMEA region, ensuring risks are managed effectively and the business receives expert advice.
Vision: Safeguarding long-term success by building an ever safer, greener, more secure environment for our people and stakeholders.
Mission: EMEA EHS Team’s Mission: We are a strategic business partner that promotes the integration of EHS principles into every facet of our business processes and operations to enable compliance and drive development.
Role Purpose
Responsible and accountable for the delivery and implementation of the Cushman & Wakefield (CW) EMEA Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Quality (EHS) Strategy across a multi-country Cluster (with focus on BeNeLux, France, and Germany), under the stewardship of the Head of EHS EMEA. This role focuses on delivering measurable improvements in health, safety, security, and environmental performance and engagement across the C&W organization, in alignment with business objectives.
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This is a senior corporate role that reports directly to the Head of EHS EMEA and indirectly to the country heads across the cluster. The role will require an experienced professional who has held a similar role in a related industry and who is comfortable and confident in working and presenting at a senior level. The role will also have line management responsibility.
The individual will be commercially aware and fully accountable for delivering the EMEA EHS Strategy as this relates to applicable countries and reporting on performance, highlighting successes and escalating critical risk issues, to their stakeholder groups across the countries in scope.
Core Responsibilities
This senior EHS management role will be responsible for identifying areas of potential organisational risk and developing robust health and safety mitigation controls, policies, procedures and guidance in accordance with the C&W EMEA EHS strategy and local legislation. The role will be responsible for co-ordinating both internal and external resources across the region in order to manage legal compliance and enhance organisational safety culture. In doing so the role will work closely working closely with key stakeholders across the EHS function to ensure alignment, collaboration and consistency of approach..
The role will work across all departments and therefore senior stakeholder engagement will be critical to the candidate’s success and the candidate must have demonstrable experience in developing successful senior stakeholder relationships and influencing change and process / culture improvement. The candidate must be a self-starter and able to demonstrate the delivery of organisational change through both face-to-face engagement and the use of remote working tools e.g. Microsoft Teams.
Critical relationships will include those with our higher risk business units including:
Our Asset Services department which has a technical management and property management focus and manages properties across the EMEA region ranging from offices and shopping centres to industrial parks and vacant land.
Our Global Occupier Services department which manages office floor space for clients across the EMEA region.
Our Project and Development Services department which manages construction projects and refurbishment / fit out works for clients across EMEA.
Our business unit leaders (Country Heads) across the countries in scope.
Functions leadership.
As a minimum the candidate will therefore require a proven track record in health and safety management, environmental management and preferably construction health and safety in order to be successful.
The successful candidate will support the Head of EHS EMEA to champion the ongoing improvement of C&W’s safety and environmental management systems relating both to our service delivery to clients and in relation to the health and safety of Cushman & Wakefield employees. The candidate will need to have proven experience in developing and implementing initiatives to improve EHS compliance and awareness and will be responsible for;
