Site Head of EHS

The organisation

Our client Teva Pharmaceuticals (Teva) is a global pharmaceutical leader and the world’s largest generic medicines producer and committed to improve the lives of patients across the world. Teva has over 40,000 employees and 68 global manufacturing sites. Teva’s headquarters is situated in Tel Aviv, Israël and the European headquarters is situated in Amsterdam. Teva’s Dutch headquarter is situated in Haarlem, where about 650 colleagues are working.

Teva Haarlem is a production site of medicines in the area of asthma and cancer. Marketing and sales are also an important part of the Haarlem site. Teva is continuously developing patient oriented solutions and significantly growing in both generic and specialty medicines through investing in research and development, marketing, business development and innovation. Working with the newest technologies and with loyal, high qualified and committed employees, the company continuously strive to strengthen their global market position. Market driven, continuous improvement and high standards with regard to environment, health and safety are key enablers to the success.

The position

As Site Head of EHS you are member of the Site Leadership team and you will lead a team of two EHS experts. You are the role model and driver in achieving the ambitious goals in the field of EHS, with the aim of creating a sustainable EHS culture, creating ownership and embedding it in the whole organization to meet all (future) EHS requirements and obligations. You will encourage a mindset of “EHS” awareness throughout the whole Teva site and create and maintain an EHS culture throughout the site that inspires a proactive attitude.

You will identify potential EHS risks, define proactive mitigations and guarantee that site investment and changes in processes, equipment and systems are carried out in accordance with the concepts of EHS by design, relevant EHS requirements and cGMP.

You also support the site leadership team by coordinating, implementing, monitoring and updating the site EHS plan. You are an influential member of the Site Leadership Team, who is an active influencer in decision making and takes an active role in cross-site initiatives, team work and collaboration across sites.

Tasks & responsibilities

• You hold a bachelor or master degree preferably in a pharmaceutical, chemical- or technical (engineering) direction with HVK;
• Approximately 10 years of practical experience in site EHS programs in a highly regulated process industry (e.g. pharma, chemical, food);
• You have a broad perspective and understanding of the site business and processes and translates this into EHS programs (and vice versa);
• You are successful in sustainable change management with the ability to lead a successful yet adaptable leadership vision;
• You have experience in continuous improvement programs and are familiar with highly structured approaches;
• You have strong leadership skills and stakeholder experience in a managerial role;
• You are a strong influencer, change manager and have experience in improving (safety) culture;
• Personal skills: strong leader, persistant, strong interpersonal and communication skills across different levels in the organization, structured, teamplayer and know how to convince others on facts.

Interested?

You can apply to this position by using the form below.