What you will be doing

Who are we?

MWI International Animal Health : Founded by veterinarians, for veterinarians. MWI Animal Health, part of Cencora (within the Fortune Top 10) has a wealth of experience delivering a quality wholesale service, a secure supply chain and business continuity for customers across an international portfolio. Combined with marketing-leading, innovative practice technology and one of the largest group purchasing organisations, we work in partnership to support veterinary practices, animal owners, manufacturers, and retailers.

Position Summary:

As HS&E Lead you will hold a HS&E leadership role, assuming accountability for overseeing and advancing Health, Safety, and Environmental Management initiatives within MWI Animal Health.

The roles coverage extends to the breadth of the MWI Animal Health business and includes regular travel.

As a primary point of contact for HS&E matters, you will demonstrate comprehensive expertise in HS&E practices to ensure compliance with relevant laws and company standards. In addition, you will cultivate a safety and sustainability culture by actively engaging key stakeholders. By enhancing the management system, your contributions will play an instrumental role in executing strategic plans and fostering continuous improvement.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Exercise effective HS&E leadership and provide clear direction within MWI Animal Health.
Foster and promote a robust safety and sustainable culture through comprehensive guidance and education initiatives.
Support the execution of health, safety & environmental strategies and cascade of associated activity throughout the UK business hierarchy.
Provides consultation on Health, safety & Environmental legislation and standards.
Develop, implement, and continually improve health, safety & environmental policies, procedures, and programs tailored to MWI's specific needs.
Ensuring consistent and accurate KPI / metric reporting across the UK business.
Inspire, mentor, coach and support the UK business to deliver HS&E requirements through compliance, culture and organisation control.
Provide guidance for functional gap assessments and support the implementation of functional improvement plans.
Ownership of role associated HS&E communication.
Strong stakeholder management enabling HS&E education, engagement and empowerment.
Coordinate and deliver engaging training sessions on various aspects of health, safety & environment, ensuring that all team members and managers possess the requisite knowledge to work safely.
Take charge of leading thorough incident investigations, identifying root causes, and devising proactive strategies to prevent recurrence.
Proactively engage in compliance monitoring throughout MWI Animal Health by providing support to business units, developing compliance programs, conducting meticulous audits, and carrying out inspections.
Conduct meticulous risk assessments to identify hazards promptly, followed by implementing effective mitigating or corrective actions.
Understand and comply with job relevant Companies Practice Standards at all times.
Understand the Companies standard operating procedures and attend training sessions as appropriate.

The above list is not exhaustive, and you may be required to carry out any other reasonable task as requested, appropriate to the scope of the post.

Experience, skills and knowledge requirements:

Self-driven and energetic HS&E professional, with experience in leading/developing HS&E management systems and implementing strategies.

You will be engaging and have the ability to influence stakeholders, positively developing our safety and sustainable culture.

Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical information to understandable information.

Application process:

Please include as well as a copy of your CV and covering letter to answer the below questions in around 300 words in total.

1.What motivated you to apply for this role with MWI Animal Health?

2. Outline what a good health and safety culture means to you.

3.In your opinion what makes a great HSE professional?

You will hold as a minimum:

Level 3 H&S qualification e.g. NEBOSH National General Certificate
Foundation Environmental Management qualification or above e.g. IEMA Foundation Certificate in Environmental Management/NEBOSH Environmental

Experience of the following would be preferred:

Auditing/inspection
Incident Management
Risk Assessment
HS&E Environmental Management systems
Train the trainer; Manual handling, Chemical spill response, Fire Safety
Experience in COSHH assessment and practical application

Company Compliance:

Support, engage and ensure you are compliant with the companies Environment, Health and Safety policies and procedures.
Our people managers and leaders are required to:

Take responsibility for driving performance and engagement through their teams, ensuring that the Right People are in the Right Place at the Right Time.
Understand the Quality Regulatory framework and the impact of this for their specific business unit.
Assure compliance with all organisation policies and procedures.
Establish and implement a continuous improvement plan.

Our Team Members are required to assure compliance with all organisation policies and procedures and fully support the delivery of their functional continuous improvement plan.

What your background should look like

What Cencora offers

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave.

To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more.

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Schedule

Full time

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@amerisourcebergen.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

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