Job Title: Head of SHE India and Nepal

Function: Supply Chain, Safety Health and Environment

Location: Mumbai HO

Req ID: R-1190325

Department: Safety Health and Environment

The Head of SHE India and Nepal has end-to-end accountability for defining, governing and driving Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) strategy and performance across India and Nepal across the value chain. All SHE resources supporting India and Nepal, including site SHE Managers, will report to this role. The role operates across India and Nepal, shaping SHE strategy, capabilities and culture in alignment with global SHE standards, while enabling site leaders to execute effectively. Success is measured by strong SHE culture, risk reduction, legal compliance, and sustainable performance outcomes across operations in India and Nepal. The position is a member of the Global SHE Leadership Team, reporting directly to the Chief SHE Officer, with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Supply Chain Executive India. This is a senior leadership role requiring the executive presence, credibility and judgement to engage, influence and constructively challenge key stakeholders at the most senior levels of the business.

Primary: India and Nepal (end-to-end value chain)

Coverage: Manufacturing, R&D, Supply Chain, Logistics, Offices, Field Sales, Contractors and Third-Party Partners

Population: Employees, contractors, and third-party suppliers across India and Nepal

Key Accountabilities:

·   Participates in the SHE Global Leadership Team to drive SHE culture and SHE performance in unity across the globe.

SHE Strategy & Leadership (India and Nepal)

·   Acts as the SHE authority for India and Nepal, setting SHE vision, priorities, and multi-year roadmaps aligned to enterprise strategy.

·   Translates corporate and external SHE commitments into strategies, risk profiles, and performance targets for India and Nepal.

·   Shapes and drives SHE culture change across India and Nepal, embedding safety leadership, accountability, and continuous improvement across leadership teams in both countries.

·   Represents India and Nepal in the Global SHE Leadership Team, ensuring coherence, alignment, and disciplined execution across both countries.

Governance, Standards & Risk Management

·   Governs the implementation of global SHE standards, frameworks, and minimum requirements across India and Nepal, ensuring compliance with applicable local legal requirements.

·   Ensures consistent application of global governance models (LOD1/LOD2), assurance programs, and performance management systems.

·   Oversees SHE risk identification and mitigation across India and Nepal, particularly for:

·   New technologies and innovations

·   Capital projects

·   M&A, divestitures, and business transformations

·   Leads governance of high-severity and systemic risks, ensuring effective controls and escalation to the India and Nepal leadership teams.

Performance Management & Insights

·   Designs and oversees SHE performance management for India and Nepal, using leading and lagging indicators to drive insight-based decisions.

·   Ensures integrity and quality of SHE data, analytics, and reporting across India and Nepal.

·   Provides insights on trends, incidents, near misses and behaviours, identifying systemic improvement opportunities.

·   Supports internal and external reporting, ensuring accuracy, credibility and brand protection.

Incident Management & Learning

·   Acts as the escalation point for India and Nepal for serious and complex incidents, ensuring escalation to global SHE leadership as required.

·   Leads or sponsors critical root cause investigations, ensuring learning is translated into prevention actions across India and Nepal and shared globally.

·   Oversees effectiveness of incident management frameworks, capability and consistency across India and Nepal.

Capability Building & Expertise

·   Defines SHE capability requirements for India and Nepal, including critical technical and leadership competencies.

·   Ensures development of deep expertise across India and Nepal in key SHE domains (e.g. process safety, machine safety, Industrial Hygiene, ergonomics, safe driving, emergency response, environmental compliance).

·   Sponsors communities of practice across India and Nepal and connects them with global networks to share best practices, innovations and lessons learned.

·   Ensures SHE capabilities are embedded beyond SHE teams into line leadership and functional communities across India and Nepal.

Transformation, Integration & Change

·   Leads SHE integration for newly acquired or decentralized businesses in India and Nepal, ensuring rapid alignment to global standards.

·   Shapes SHE input into business transformations, digital initiatives and operating model changes across India and Nepal.

Balances risk, value creation, cost and resource allocation within enterprise expectations.e

Experience Required:

ESSENTIAL

·   Extensive senior leadership experience in multi-site operations, with the organisational seniority and business credibility to partner effectively with executive leadership, preferably within complex, matrixed organizations.

·   Proven ability to define and lead country-level SHE strategies across diverse operations and value chains, aligned with global standards.

·   Strong track record in SHE risk management, governance and culture transformation.

·   University degree in Science or Engineering; deep understanding of industrial, environmental and operational risk.

·   Expert knowledge of SHE management systems, governance models and digital tools, with the ability to ensure compliance with applicable SHE legal requirements in India and Nepal.

·   Exceptional executive stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the presence, judgement and confidence to build trusted relationships, navigate competing priorities and constructively challenge senior business leaders at executive and board-adjacent level.

·   Strong analytical capability with demonstrated use of data to drive enterprise decisions.

·   Ability to influence strategic deliverables in a widely matrixed organization

·   Influencing skills and international business/cultural sensitivity.

Travel:

As per job/site requirements, intensive travel across India and Nepal will be required and also international trips, around 60% of the time.

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