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Posted May 28Director Global Safety Standards (Supply Chain)
at ResMed
Singapore, SingaporeHybrid
Responsibilities
- Design, maintain, and continuously improve a globally deployable Safety Management System across all supply chain operations.
- Ensure the Safety Management System operates as a scalable operating system, embedded into supply chain management routines, not a compliance overlay.
- Lead deployment at scale (standards → behaviour → culture) Build deployment playbooks that convert standards into consistent behaviours: onboarding, leader routines, contractor management, incident learning.
- Lead phased rollouts by site archetype and maturity, ensuring readiness criteria and sustainment controls are in place.
- Ensure “safety is how we work here” is reinforced through daily routines, not annual campaigns.
- Create executive visibility and accountability for safety Position safety as a foundational enabler of supply chain resilience, continuity, and scalability.
- Establish governance forums/cadence that drive action: clear owners, decisions, and follow-through.
- Coach leaders on safety leadership expectations (what good looks like in behaviours, conversations, and presence).
- Enable site leaders with pragmatic tools, training, and communication assets—making implementation easier than “local invention.” Drive consistent participation of Site Leaders in enterprise safety initiatives, audits, and cross‑site learning.
- Drive incident learning discipline: investigation quality, corrective action effectiveness, and systemic prevention.
- Ensure continuous improvement of standards based on learning, site feedback, and evolving risk profiles.
- Monitor contractor and partner safety performance, ensuring clear accountability, escalation, and continuous improvement What “culture of safety” means in this role (mindsets & behaviours you model and build) Safety is a value and a system : non-negotiable, visible, measurable, and continuously improved.
Requirements
- Experience & capabilities Deep EHS/safety systems expertise in manufacturing/logistics; strong grasp of global standards deployment.
Benefits
- Additional information: At Resmed, all employees benefit from a bonus plan, the percentage of which depends on your position within the organisation.
- Working from home flexibility You also have access to a referral bonus and to Resmed's preferred shareholding programme Competitive
Additional details
- We are looking for our future Director, Global Safety Standards - Supply Chain to join our Global Manufacturing Operations team.
- The role is offered as hybrid in Singapore, Tuas Crescent site with frequent travels.
- This role defines, deploys, and sustains ResMed’s Global Safety Standards and Safety Management System , ensuring safety operates as a leadership‑led performance system , not a compliance activity.
- This role builds safety into how work is led and executed every day —through clear standards, disciplined routines, and visible leadership behaviours—across all supply chain operations globally. Let's talk
- about the role : As Resmed scales and transforms, safety must scale faster than complexity.
- This role is pivotal in shifting safety from “compliance activity” to a strategic operating model : Consistent global standards & safety management systems with local applicability, high adoption, and strong assurance.
- Safety as a core element of operational excellence and business continuity.
- Safety leadership behaviours as a visible executive expectation.
- Scope and Footprint : Global scope: Global Supply Operations including manufacturing sites + Technical service centres, logistics (as applicable), fulfilment centres, contractors, and key partners.
- Influences site leaders, EHS teams, operations leadership, and functional executives through structured governance and compelling executive storytelling.