EHS Operational Support Manager in Sweden & Finland, Arla - Stockholm, Sweden

Are you an inspirational and engaging Environment, Health and Safety leader who is passionate about EHS, and can you play an instrumental role in the development and deployment of Arla Environmental, Health & Safety standards towards its ZERO loss vision? In recent years Arla has made significant gains in step changing its EHS culture., and we are now ready to invest in a highly skilled EHS Manager to be our lead  in Sweden & Finland within Environmental, Health & Safety. The role do not have line manager responsibilities.

The role will be based from our Stockholm office and will report to the Global Environment, Health & Safety Director.

Provide EHS leadership and guidance to our Sweden & Finland Supply Chain
As the EHS Manager, you will be the voice of Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) within Arla to provide equal visibility and importance to other business priorities. You will give subject matter expert guidance, in alignment with  global QEHS agenda, responsible to develop local initiatives and a key stakeholder in global initiatives that drive risk reduction across Environment, Health & Safety including establishing organisational competence (skills, knowledge and behaviours).

Your key areas of responsibilities will be:

• Support SE/FI QEHS Business Partner and operational teams in ensuring compliance to internal and external standards
• Simplify and harmonise ways of working for the Sweden and Finland organization in accordance to Arla Integrated Management Systems
• Support serious incident and crisis management situations, including contact to authorities
• Monitor and targeting EHS related metrics and KPI’s
• Work collaboratively across the business to share EHS learnings and best practices
• Be the primary link to relevant authorities, industries and certifying bodies on environmental matters

Program lead experience and strong EHS background

To be successful in this role, we expect that you have solid experience of working with Environmental, Health & Safety matters, ideally in a similar role related to food production and experience in dealing with a wide range of stakeholders across FMCG operations, retailers and logistics. In addition, you probably also have experience of working within a Program Manager role and hold a degree within e.g. Chemical Management, food science/technology or similar and country relevant accreditations within Environment, Health & Safety.

As a person, you show both integrity and judgement and you build positive relationships and demonstrate collaboration with others. You have a strong personal impact and drive demonstrating passion for health and safety. You are intellectual and have analytical power to handle complexity, and you must be able to work at both operational and strategic levels. You must also have the ability and track record of successfully influencing local management teams.

What do we offer?
We’re committed to professional development and promoting from within. Our positive and collaborative culture will bring out the best in you. And you’ll join a market leader who produces nutritious household-favorite brands in a way that make things better for our customers, the farmers who own us, and the whole world. At Arla Foods we want to create the conditions for our colleagues to have a sustainable work life by offering flexibility and the opportunity to work in the office, which is seen as the first choice, and remotely; based on the needs of the business and the employees. We call it the “Power of the Mix”. Arla Foods is bound by collective agreements. At Arla we always make sure to offer good and competitive working conditions.

Application and contact

If you want to join us and help shape the industry, then seize this exciting opportunity and apply no later than 2023-03-28. Please send in your application in English.  Please note that we will review applications on an ongoing bases and may close the recruitment before the last application date. For additional information, feel free to call Global EHS Director, Filip Rasmussen at +45 30373614.

We have a purpose for Good

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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