Vice President of Safety

Matchtech are supporting the recruitment for a Safety VP to work with a key client in Toronto.

Do you have the following key skills?

• Proven leadership skills - the ability to influence others outside of the team to deliver assurance and improvements
• Big picture strategic thinker, able to switch between tactical and strategic agendas.
• Proven stakeholder management skills, with the ability to navigate large organisations with different interests and promote collaborative working.
• An empathetic candidate with high emotional intelligence, vitality, energy, and ability to create velocity inleading cultural change.
• Exceptional influencing skills and ability to act as a role model and play a wider role in the context of CPGs executive forum.

Do you have the below skills?

• 20+ years of experience in one of the following: program and project management, project controls, engineering, technology, technical advisory, property, design etc.
• At least three years of industry-related experience, including five years in upper management required
• Degree qualified or similar, ideally in Health and Safety or Engineering is mandatory. Further educational qualification or professional membership is desired.
• Chartership with safety related industry related body such as IOSH or the IIRSM
• Established track record of driving operational safety improvements in regulated safety-critical and process-led businesses.
• Managing teams of over 15 people, with a track-record of driving performance and evolving mindset
• Previous experience of supporting businesses moving from a tactical/procedural safety context to the desired leadership based on modern behavioural-led safety strategy.
• Acting as a link between health, safety, environment, and performance and using behavioural change to address underlying performance issues.
• Able to work cross-functionally and act as a focus point of the broader team, responsible for the overall performance, not just safety.
• Has an established external safety network beyond transport / electrical industries and including HSE.
• Significant experience in the industry, having successfully led teams through strategic business objectives (i.e. organizational change management, growth & geographic expansion, etc.)
• Demonstrated expertise in business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modelling, leadership technique and coordination of people and resources
• Proven ability in building cohesive teams and facilitating goal accomplishments by aligning individual and team actions with strategies and plans to drive business results

Open to discussing further ? Hit apply!