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.
The opportunity
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 / stakeholder 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
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.
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.
Success metrics (performance measurement)
Deployment & adoption
Assurance & compliance
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
Experience & capabilities
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.
