The Company This agricultural business has a significant and geographically diverse operational footprint across Australia & NZ. Backed by a major international institutional investment group, the business has a long-term investment mandate and is entering an exciting phase of continued growth, operational improvement and capability development.
The Role Reporting to the CEO, the Chief Environment & Safety Officer will provide strategic leadership across Environment, Safety & Sustainability and associated compliance functions for a complex, geographically dispersed national operation.
Key Responsibilities including the following:
- Lead the enabling functions – Lead and develop Safety, Environment & Sustainability and Effluent as a high-performing leadership group.
- Set explicit standards – Establish clear expectations, accountability and capability across each function.
- Drive business partnering – Ensure functions proactively understand and respond to operational needs.
- Align to business priorities – Ensure functional services, outputs and resources align with business demand.
- Own continuous improvement – Embed a consistent cycle of learning, measurement and year-on-year improvement.
- Provide governance and assurance – Ensure key risks, compliance obligations and regulatory requirements are effectively managed and reported.
- Manage resources and investment – Oversee budgets, headcount and investment to deliver maximum business value.
- Support strategic initiatives – Provide functional leadership across M&A;, transformation and other strategic business priorities.
Your Background To be considered for this opportunity, you will bring the following:
- Executive leadership of multiple diverse functions, within a C-Suite and ideally in agribusiness, food production or an asset-intensive multi-site environment
- Proven leadership experience with a track record of raising functional performance through others
- Strong business partnering orientation and the credibility to hold functions accountable to operational need.
- Sound knowledge of non-financial risk and governance and comfort to operating to institutional shareholder standards
- Commercial judgment, sound stakeholder management and the ability to operate at both Board and site level