Health, Safety, Wellbeing - Global HSW Assurance and Value Chain manager

As an Arcadian, you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. This role is to ensure the effective management of Health, Safety, and Wellbeing (HSW) compliance, audit, assurance, risk, value chain, data and reporting processes within Arcadis at global level, ensuring operational needs are met with consistency and reliability. Ensure the organization’s HSW global operations, value chain activities, and technology initiatives operate within regulatory frameworks while proactively managing risks and optimizing value delivery across regions. It involves remote work, process‑driven guidance to external/internal stakeholders, maintaining high standards of administrative accuracy and data management across all HSW systems. The role reports directly to the HSW Programme Director and dotted reports to the Regional HSW Operations Directors. Individual Accountabilities: Policy and Compliance Management • Global HSW Policy Development and Implementation: Maintain and regularly update global HSW policies and procedures to reflect legislative changes and industry best practices. • Auditing and Monitoring: Improve Central HSW second line assurance, manage central HSW self-assessments and identify areas for improvement across the organization, manage the Enterprise Risk Management tracker on behalf of HSW, and ensure adherence to HSW policies and procedures. • Ensure adherence to international regulations (GDPR, trade compliance, financial regulations, etc.). • Liaise with Global Compliance, Legal and Integrated Assurance teams to implement compliance controls and policies, maintain compliance frameworks across regions (APAC, EMEA, Americas). Risk and Incident Management • Risk Assessment and Analysis: Perform risk assessments and analyses in alignment with ARC to mitigate potential HSW risks. • Incident and Investigation Management: Oversee global incident management, investigations, and reporting to ensure timely and effective resolution. • Identify operational, regulatory, financial, and technology risks. • Maintain enterprise risk registers and mitigation strategies. • Develop risk assessment frameworks for global projects and initiatives. • Report risk exposure and mitigation progress to senior leadership. Emergency preparedness • Coordinate global emergency preparedness and response activity and set global minimum requirements for countries • Manage the HSW relationship with International SOS Operational integration and engagement • Work with operations to embed HSW and improve adherence • Stand up HSW communities to incorporate billable HSW professionals working with clients into Global HSW governance and ways of working • Develop governance models for cross-regional operations. • Create dashboards for compliance, risk, and value metrics. • Provide leadership insights for decision-making and strategic planning. HSW Value Chain management • Collaboration with Procurement: Embed HSW standards for value-chain workers and oversee supplier due diligence. • Map and monitor the end-to-end global value chain (suppliers → operations → customers). • Identify efficiency gaps and cost-of-quality opportunities. • Improve governance across partners, vendors, and delivery teams. • Drive process standardization and value realization. Data and reporting strategy and governance • Lead HSW data strategy and governance, including data collection, analysis, and centralized reporting practices. • Strengthen data architecture, data quality, and governance standards.