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.
The Director, Global Safety Standards is the enterprise safety leader and architect for ResMed’s Global Supply Chain. 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.
Partners with regional/site EHS leaders to co-create adoption and sustainment.
Core accountabilities (What you will own) :
Design the global safety “operating system”
Own and govern global safety standards for the end‑to‑end supply chain, including manufacturing, technical service centres, logistics, fulfillment, contractors, and key partners.
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).
Partner deeply with site leaders and global EHS teams
Partner with Site Leaders to ensure safety outcomes are owned by line leadership across manufacturing, logistics, and distribution operations
Operate as the connector: align site leaders, EHS leaders, and operational excellence teams to a common global standard while respecting regulatory and cultural nuance.
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.
Assurance, auditing, and continuous improvement
Own the global safety assurance and audit framework for the end‑to‑end supply chain, ensuring consistent verification of standards and system effectiveness.
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.
Contractor and partner safety system
Standardise contractor onboarding requirements, safety expectations, and performance management.
Embed safety requirements into sourcing/partner governance and commissioning readiness.
Monitor contractor and partner safety performance, ensuring clear accountability, escalation, and continuous improvement
Safety is a value and a system: non-negotiable, visible, measurable, and continuously improved.
Leaders are accountable for safety as the top priority: presence, routines, learning, corrective action.
Psychological safety: encourage reporting, learning, and “stop work” confidence.
Standardisation: global standards with disciplined local execution.
Deployment & adoption
On-time delivery of the Safety Standards and Safety Management System deployment roadmap milestones.
Adoption: % sites implementing required standards and routines (with evidence of execution).
Assurance & compliance
Audit/maturity outcomes: improvement trend; closure rate and time-to-close of corrective actions.
Contractor onboarding compliance and contractor safety performance trend.
Culture & leading indicators :
Increase in leading indicators that reflect culture: leadership routine completion, near-miss reporting quality, learning cadence participation, “stop-work” confidence pulse improvement.
Outcomes
Improved safety performance trend across the network (aligned to ResMed’s standard safety measures), with demonstrated prevention learning loops.
Deep EHS/safety systems expertise in manufacturing/logistics; strong grasp of global standards deployment.
Proven principal-level program leadership: multi-site rollout, governance, influence without authority.
Exceptional executive communication: can translate safety into strategic business risk and operational excellence language.
Strong partnering approach works with (not around) site leaders and EHS teams; balances global consistency with local requirements.
Change leadership capability understands adoption, reinforcement, and sustainment.
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 benefits
Internal career opportunity - joining an international fast-pace and massively growing company
Resmed is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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Joining us is more than saying “yes” to making the world a healthier place. It’s discovering a career that’s challenging, supportive and inspiring. Where a culture driven by excellence helps you not only meet your goals, but also create new ones. We focus on creating a diverse and inclusive culture, encouraging individual expression in the workplace and thrive on the innovative ideas this generates. If this sounds like the workplace for you, apply now !
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Joining us is more than saying “yes” to making the world a healthier place. It’s discovering a career that’s challenging, supportive and inspiring. Where a culture driven by excellence helps you not only meet your goals, but also create new ones. We focus on creating a diverse and inclusive culture, encouraging individual expression in the workplace and thrive on the innovative ideas this generates. If this sounds like the workplace for you, apply now! We commit to respond to every applicant.
