Associate Director Health, Safety Wellbeing

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Location:

CA-Los Angeles, US

Contract Type:
Regular Full-Time

Area: HUMAN RESOURCES

Would you like to join an international team working to improve the future of healthcare? Do you want to enhance the lives of millions of people? Grifols is a global healthcare company that since 1909 has been working to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. We are leaders in plasma-derived medicines and transfusion medicine and develop, produce and market innovative medicines, solutions and services in more than 110 countries and regions.

Strategically define, evolve, and embed the Regional Health, Safety, and Wellbeing through intent-based leadership, ensuring full alignment with Grifols’ global framework, company policies, and applicable laws and regulations. Building on prior success in translating complex safety data into executive action and designing board-ready KPIs, this role champions a proactive, prevention-first approach that empowers teams to make informed decisions protecting the health, safety, and total wellbeing of employees and collaborators.

Drive operational excellence by integrating continuous improvement, efficiency, and human-centered safety into core processes linking cultural change to measurable outcomes. Leverage insights from internal audits, ISO 45001 integration, and cross-functional collaboration to identify systemic risks and accelerate resilience.

Lead the development and deployment of strategic initiatives that strengthen safety culture across the organization, fostering ownership, sustainable performance, and behaviors aligned with Grifols’ values of integrity, teamwork, innovation, and commitment to quality. This includes embedding wellbeing into leadership routines, promoting psychological safety, and modeling accountability at every level from frontline operations to executive governance.

• Provide strategic leadership, ownership, and accountability for the Regional Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Management System, ensuring full integration with Grifols’ global framework, company policies, and applicable laws and regulations. Through intent-based leadership, guide the system’s evolution to support proactive risk management, regulatory foresight, and operational resilience objectives.
• Conduct strategic analysis of enterprise-wide safety and wellbeing requirements to identify systemic gaps, emerging risks, and opportunities for improvement. Design and implement innovative, scalable solutions that enhance operational resilience, regulatory alignment, and employee wellbeing across all business units.
• Identify, interpret, and operationalize regulatory standards that influence business activities and operational exposures, guiding the development of forward-looking compliance strategies that ensure alignment with global requirements and enterprise risk management objectives.
• Design and implement enterprise-wide safety and wellbeing training programs that build capability, reinforce preventative behaviors, and align with strategic risk management goals. Continuously evaluate training effectiveness through performance metrics and stakeholder feedback, and report outcomes to drive accountability, improvement, and cultural adoption.
• Lead strategic investigations and periodic audits of regulations and industry best practices that impact the regional network, ensuring proactive compliance, risk mitigation, and continuous alignment with evolving standards and organizational priorities.
• Integrate H&S management systems into organizational practices and serve as the subject matter expert, and in ISO 45001 sites, adoption and related standards where applicable. Provide strategic guidance to ensure seamless implementation, alignment with global frameworks, and continuous improvement in health, safety, and wellbeing performance across the enterprise
• Serve as the lead authority for Health, Safety, and Wellbeing internal audits during inspections, driving enterprise-wide accountability and transparency. Provide strategic oversight to ensure audit findings translate into actionable…