Senior Manager - Health And Safety

JOB TITLE
Senior Manager Health & Safety | Holding | Sustainability

ROLE SUMMARY
The Senior Manager – Health & Safety is responsible for setting, governing, and overseeing the Group Health & Safety (H&S) framework, ensuring a consistent, robust, and proactive approach to occupational health and safety across all Operating Companies (OpCos). This is a Group stewardship role, focused on strategy, governance, assurance, capability building, and performance oversight, rather than day-to-day site operations. The role works closely with OpCo H&S teams, senior leadership, and risk

ROLE PROFILE

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve the Group H&S strategy, policies, standards, and minimum requirements, aligned with local regulations, ISO 45001, international best practice, and Group risk appetite.
• Establish clear H&S roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities between Group and OpCos, supported by a robust governance and assurance framework.
• Oversee OpCo H&S performance through audits, assessments, independent reviews, KPIs, leading and lagging indicators, dashboards, and consistent reporting.
• Identify systemic H&S risks and trends, support OpCos in addressing high-risk issues and closing findings, and provide senior management and Board-level risk briefings.
• Lead Group processes for critical risk management, incident reporting, investigation, root cause analysis, learning, and systemic corrective actions, providing expert support during serious incidents.
• Drive H&S capability, maturity, and safety culture through leadership engagement, training frameworks, guidance, best-practice sharing, and integration of safety into business decisions.
• Collaborate with Risk, ESG/Sustainability, HR, Legal, Operations, auditors, regulators, and external partners, while contributing to H&S-related ESG and enterprise risk disclosures.
• Promote environmental stewardship at Majid Al Futtaim by aligning work practices with ISO standards and continuously enhancing relevant H&S and environmental management systems for maximum effectiveness.

REQUIREMENTS

• Effective Group H&S governance and accountability are established, with clear roles between Group and OpCos and consistent application of Group policies, standards, and minimum requirements while accommodating local needs.
• Improved visibility and proactive management of H&S risks and performance, supported by reliable data, meaningful KPIs, leading indicators, clear escalation mechanisms, and strong focus on critical risk prevention.
• Effective oversight and learning from serious incidents and near misses, ensuring robust investigations, root cause analysis, systemic corrective actions, and sharing of lessons learned across the Group.
• OpCos are supported, challenged, and enabled through Group expertise, guidance, assurance, and capability building, without duplicating operational responsibilities.
• H&S is embedded in leadership and business decision-making, including risk management, capital planning, ESG reporting, and enterprise risk management, with credible reporting to EXCOM and the Board.
• A consistent and mature safety culture is strengthened across the Group, demonstrated through leadership engagement, continuous improvement, strong collaboration with Risk, ESG, HR, Legal and Operations, and effective engagement with offices and assets, i

WHAT WE OFFER

• At Majid Al Futtaim, we’re on a mission to create great moments, to spread happiness, to build, experiences that stay in our memories for a lifetime. We’re proud to say that over the past 27 years, we have built a reputation as a regional market leader in what we do. Join us!
• Work in a friendly environment, where everyone shares positive vibes and excited about our future.
• Work with over 45,000 diverse and talented colleagues, all guided by our Leadership Model.