The Coca-Cola Company

Senior Director, Safety & Risk

The Coca-Cola Company

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Nairobi • 🇰🇪 Kenya

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Define, execute, and continuously evolve the AOU’s Occupational Health & Safety (H&S) strategy, ensuring alignment with global frameworks, Long Range Plans (LRP), and Annual Business Plans (ABP).
  • Champion safety culture transformation through visionary leadership, ensuring a “Zero is Possible” mindset and embedding H&S as a competitive advantage.
  • Integrate safety into business outcomes, influencing investment decisions, innovation pipelines, and operational design.
  • Implement global H&S systems and governance structures, ensuring compliance with KORE requirements and occupational license-to-operate regulations.
  • Lead the adoption of cutting-edge safety technologies and process innovations from high performing external industries (e.g., oil & gas, chemical, automotive, pharma).
  • Lead Incident Management & Crisis Resolution (IMCR) processes for the AOU, ensuring preparedness, proactive risk identification, and rapid response to protect people, operations, and brand reputation.
  • Maintain robust Technical Risk Management Framework (TRMF) and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) integration, with actionable mitigation plans across manufacturing, logistics, innovation, and marketplace operations.
  • Partner with PACS, Strategic Security, and franchise system leadership on risk mitigation, scenario planning, and high impact decision making.
  • Own and implement the AOU Business Continuity Plan (BCP) to ensure operational recovery during disruptions.
  • Coordinate cross functional recovery teams and external bottler partners for synchronized effective responses.
  • Keep leadership informed via clear, concise, and timely status reporting.
  • Engage with senior internal and external leaders, industry associations, and regulatory bodies to drive alignment and share best practices.
  • Communicate with impact across multiple levels — from executive boardrooms to plant floor teams — adjusting style and messaging accordingly.
  • Negotiate and align on safety priorities where strategic or operational interests may differ.
  • Build and empower a high performing H&S team; mentor, coach, and enable others to lead safety effectively at all levels.
  • Establish the AOU as a regional center of excellence for safety knowledge, benchmarking, and capability development.
  • Foster cross system, cross functional collaboration to ensure “One Team” execution and shared accountability for safety goals.

Requirements

  • 8–10+ years senior leadership in Technical/H&S operations, with proven success in cultural transformation and change leadership.
  • Background from high safety maturity industries (energy, chemicals, manufacturing, automotive, pharma) strongly preferred.
  • End to end Occupational Health & Safety leadership, covering manufacturing, logistics, and marketplace environments.
  • Experience influencing in a complex, global, and matrixed system without direct authority.
  • Proven track record of cross regional, cross functional leadership and delivering strategic plans in alignment with global business objectives.
  • Strong knowledge of H&S management systems, risk management frameworks, compliance requirements, and crisis response best practices.
  • Demonstrated ability to engage effectively with executives, franchise partners, and regulatory or industry bodies.
Benefits
  • We believe a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a stronger and more innovative company.
  • This includes supporting the financial and personal well-being of our employees.
  • Career Development: We empower each and every one of our employees across the globe to prioritize their career development by building capabilities, developing new skills, and leaning into new experiences.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Occupational Health & Safety managementTechnical Risk Management FrameworkEnterprise Risk ManagementIncident ManagementCrisis ResolutionBusiness Continuity PlanningSafety technologiesProcess innovationsCompliance requirementsCultural transformation
Soft skills
Visionary leadershipCommunicationNegotiationMentoringCoachingCross functional collaborationInfluencingEngagement with executivesStatus reportingDecision making