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SEARCH: Global QHSE Compliance Director - FMCG

Mar 28, 2024
Using our expertise to find a Global QHSE Compliance Director for one of the worlds largest premium drinks firms.

Search overview

The company

A global beverage manufacturer, headquartered in London,of which operates 132 sites around the world. Their ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world.

With over 200 brands and sales in nearly 180 countries, their portfolio has remarkable breadth and depth. From centuries-old names to the latest innovations, they are committed to building and sustaining exceptional brands.

  • 130+ Sites
  • Employing over 30,000 people globally
  • Truly global footprint
  • World-recognised and local brands
  • Significant market share

The search

Overhaul of global quality, health, safety and environmental strategy. Leading both the development of transformational priorities in supply governance and the successful implementation. Ambitions towards embedding and sustaining of improvement programmes at market and site level.

Post Consultation focus

Melium Consulting invest heavily to ascertain the foundations for success, with a clear understanding of AS-IS and TO-BE states. From our initial consultation it was clear we needed to probe the following areas;

 Historic leadership style, action, and results

  • Historic leadership style, action, and results
  • The current QHSE maturity, culture and mindset to a -net positive at work and at home
  • Corporate values,organizational vision how that is reflected in the company culture
  • Growth, transformation,and investment agendas

S-CAP Tools deployed

  •   Operational and functioning ESH Maturity Assessment
  •   Cultural Assessment

Mutually agreed Search approach

  • Critical success factors and desired future state outcomes
  • Competency matrix definition (Technical and Behavioural)
  • Designed bespoke evaluation assessment from S-CAP inputs
  • Value proposition creation to attract passive candidates.
  • Project plan the process, stakeholder accountability, and route to success

Execution

Research & Outreach

With a clear requirement to raise the bar for QHSE performance and governance globally, we needed a Leader cable to own and drive a complex transformation.

  • Mapped relevant industry manufacturers of comparable, complexity, and maturity.
  • Lens on mature corporate EHS agendas
  • Learn what quality structures prospect organizations have
  • Burning platforms within production
  • Highlighted specific “People of interest” and mutually agreed on NORTH STAR profile.
  • Solidified longlist through a range of data-lead, industry-leading tools and headhunting techniques

Evaluation Considerations

  • Lead the creation, implementation and continuous improvement of the Health and Safety, Environmental Compliance and Assurance strategies for 2030 across the end-to-end Supply Chain.
  • Establish an organisation that drives the transformation priorities and embeds the improvement programmes at a site level.
  • Define the Global roadmap utilising the Transform Specialists’ outputs and prepare a 5 year roadmap utilising the deployment and implementation teams and the Third Party Operations Teams to place Diageo in leading performance.
  • Review global performance monthly via leading and lagging indicators and ensure site interventions occur as required and ensure delivery of improvement plans to take maturity to leading.
  • Ensure standardisation and codification across all markets
  • Continuous External Benchmarking focusing on trends/efficiencies.

Result

The incumbent hire was a well-known public speaker and industry thought leader is the areas of quality,health, safety, and environment. Having previously been instrumental in the creation,implementation, and continuous improvement of compliance and assurance strategies, she was entrusted to lead the challenge.

  •  Advisory and guidance to select focus three candidates
  • Melium provides client-side support to design and run the internal interview process
  • Commercial negotiation assistance to ensure a “right first-time” offer
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