Director

Job Req Number: 114079
Time Type: Full Time

Open to candidates anywhere within Asia Pacific

Head of Safety Security Sustainability Heath and Quality Asia Pacific Contract Logistics

Reporting Line

Reports to: Head of Business Change Management (BCM)
Functional alignment: COO / Operations Strategy & Solutions

Role Purpose

The Head of S3HQ is accountable for defining governing and embedding enterprisewide standards for Safety Security Sustainability Quality and Business Continuity across Contract Logistics operations.

The role ensures that S3HQ is not a compliance silo but a businessintegrated capability that:

• Protects people assets customers and brand
• Enables scalable operations and growth (incl. GCM clients)
• Translates regulatory and corporate requirements into operationally executable standards
• Supports BCMled transformation CIP and product development with riskaware compliant solutions

Key Accountabilities

1. Enterprise Governance & Standards Ownership

• Own the global S3HQ framework covering:
  • Safety & Health
  • Security
  • Sustainability
  • Quality
  • Business Continuity / Crisis Preparedness
• Define and maintain minimum global standards policies and control frameworks
• Ensure standards are:
  • Scalable across regions
  • Practical for operations
  • Aligned with COO and Corporate requirements
• Own change control for S3HQrelated standards in collaboration with BCM CIP & Process Optimisation

2. Integration with BCM Operating Model

• Embed S3HQ into BCMled initiatives including:
  • CIP & Process Optimisation
  • New site implementations
  • GCM client onboarding and expansions
  • Product and solution development
• Ensure S3HQ is designed in not bolted on to:
  • Processes
  • Work instructions
  • Training and enablement
• Act as the S3HQ authority within BCM governance and prioritisation forums

3. GCM Client Enablement & Risk Stewardship

• Provide clear S3HQ rules of engagement for GCM clients
• Support GCM teams with:
  • Standardised S3HQ requirements
  • Risk assessments for new solutions and sites
  • Customerspecific compliance needs (without breaking enterprise standards)
• Ensure that GCMdriven exceptions are:
  • Riskassessed
  • Approved through governance
  • Documented and timebound

4. Regional Deployment & Capability Building

• Lead a federated S3HQ model:
  • Central ownership and governance
  • Regional S3HQ leads for execution
• Set expectations for regional teams on:
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Reporting and escalation
  • Audit readiness and incident management
• Drive capability uplift through:
  • Training frameworks
  • Standard toolkits
  • Knowledge sharing across regions

5. Incident Crisis & Business Continuity Leadership

• Own the enterprise approach to crisis management and BCP
• Ensure clear escalation paths and decision frameworks
• Support operations during:
  • Major incidents
  • Disruptions
  • Regulatory or customer escalations
• Lead postincident reviews and systemic corrective actions in partnership with BCM CIP

6. Performance Reporting & Executive Transparency

• Define standard S3HQ KPIs and reporting
• Ensure transparency to:
• COO leadership
• BCM
• Regional Operations
• Translate compliance and risk topics into businessrelevant insights

Support executive decisionmaking with factbased assessments

Experience

• Senior leadership experience in Safety Security Sustainability Quality or Risk within logistics supply chain or complex operations
• Proven experience operating in a global matrix organisation
• Track record of translating policy into operational execution
• Nice to have: Experience supporting large strategic customers (GCMtype environments)

Skills & Capabilities

• Strong governance and decisionmaking capability
• Ability to balance standardisation vs. operational pragmatism
• Credible engagement with senior leaders and customers
• Systems thinking and riskbased prioritisation
• Change leadership mindset

DSV is an equal employment opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race creed color national origin age sex religion ancestry veteran status marital status gender identify sexual orientation national origin liability for military service or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local you are interested in learning the status of your application please note you will be contacted directly by the appropriate human resources contact person if you are selected for further consideration. DSV reserves the right to defer or close a vacancy at any time.

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