Sr. Manager Health, Safety and Wellbeing

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.

Job Summary:

Strategically define, evolve, and embed 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.

Primary responsibilities for role:

• Provide strategic leadership, ownership, and accountability for the 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 improvements, reinforce compliance with global standards, and strengthen the organization’s culture of prevention, resilience, and continuous improvement.
• Provide strategic oversight and leadership for global Health, Safety, and Wellbeing initiatives, ensuring consistency, scalability, and cultural relevance across all regions. Champion the integration of wellbeing into Grifols’ global governance frameworks, aligning programs with international regulations, industry best practices, and organizational values. Drive enterprise-wide initiatives that embed preventative risk management, operational resilience, and holistic wellbeing into business strategy, fostering a unified safety culture that empowers employees, strengthens stakeholder confidence, and positions Grifols as a global leader in health, safety, and wellbeing excellence.
• Develop and manage the Occupational Safety expense budget.

Additional Responsibilities:

• The role encompasses providing strategic leadership, ownership, and accountability for Occupational Health, Safety, and Total Wellbeing programs, ensuring alignment with Grifols’ values and operational excellence objectives. Beyond compliance, this position serves as a visionary driver of a holistic health and safety culture, embedding wellbeing into the company’s long-term strategy and employee experience.
• Key responsibilities include analyzing systemwide safety and wellbeing requirements, identifying deficiencies and opportunities, and developing innovative, future-focused solutions to be implemented across the company. The role interprets and implements regulatory standards that affect operational exposures and business activities, while also guiding compliance plans that anticipate emerging risks. It develops employee safety and wellbeing training programs, evaluates their effectiveness, and reports results to leadership, ensuring continuous improvement and resilience.
• Strategically, the position integrates ISO 45001 adoption as a subject matter expert, while also championing next-generation prevention and wellbeing systems that align with Grifols’ values. At the regional level, the role defines and implements prevention and wellbeing strategies, advises businesses on risk management, allocates resources for prevention and wellbeing services, and collaborates with leadership teams to cultivate a proactive safety and wellbeing culture that supports both operational excellence and employee engagement.
• Representation duties extend to regional forums, inspections, and meetings with employee representatives, where the role advocates for employee-centered wellbeing initiatives and provides guidance on occupational risk prevention. It responds to official inquiries, monitors safety and health committee meetings, and conducts follow-ups with stakeholders to assess compliance, improvement opportunities, and cultural adoption of wellbeing practices.
• Regional safety and health responsibilities involve establishing common programs across sites, defining visionary improvement policies, implementing annual audit programs, and coordinating meetings with safety leaders to drive transformational action plans.
• In terms of medical and wellbeing services, the role manages occupational health surveillance and assistance programs, conducts health studies and epidemiological research, and plans preventive measures. It also promotes total wellbeing through vaccinations, awareness campaigns, mental health initiatives, resilience programs, and holistic health strategies that address physical, emotional, and social wellbeing.
• Finally, the position oversees outsourced prevention and wellbeing services by defining, contracting, and supervising external providers, while organizing medical examinations, health surveillance activities, and wellness programs. In doing so, it ensures a comprehensive, future-ready occupational health, safety, and wellbeing management system that not only protects employees but also empowers them to thrive.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include but are not limited to: industrial hygiene, construction safety, biosafety, ergonomics, machine guarding, hazard communication, powered industrial vehicles, and electrical safety.
• Collect, monitor, analyze and evaluate metrics that measure effectiveness of Safety compliance and training programs and develop program improvement initiatives.
• Lead development of site guidelines, manage implementation and monitor safety processes and management practices to meet all applicable safety rules and company policy requirements.
• Deliver employee safety training.
• Collaborate with the Safety personnel at other North American manufacturing sites to share best practices and benchmark safety performance measures.
• Monitor current regulatory environment to ensure compliance.

For California, Canadian or other international sites only:

• Ensure compliance with all Cal-OSHA. Provincial or country specific Health and Safety regulations.
• Analyze locational Safety requirements, identifying deficiencies and potential opportunities, and develop innovative solutions to be implemented by the company
• Identify and interpret regulatory standards that impact operational exposures and business activities and guide needed plans to ensure compliance.
• Develop and deliver local employee safety training, evaluate training effectiveness, and report results.
• Investigate and research OSHA regulations and industry best practices.
• Research and implement the benefit of ISO 45001 adoption, locally.
• May be a member of the Corporate Safety internal audit team during the annual inspections of the North American sites.
• Perform all responsibilities as defined in previous job level.
• Analyze locational Safety requirements, identifying deficiencies and potential opportunities, and develop innovative solutions to be implemented by the company.
• Identify and interpret regulatory standards that impact operational exposures and business activities and guide needed plans to ensure compliance.
• Develop and deliver local employee safety training, evaluate training effectiveness, and report results.
• Investigate and research OSHA regulations and industry best practices.
• Research and implement the benefit of ISO 45001 adoption, locally.
• May be a member of the Corporate Safety internal audit team during the annual inspections of the North American sites.

Required Education, Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Occupational or Industrial Safety, Safety Management, or related field.
• Related post-education training; at least one certification such as CSP and CIH preferred.
• A minimum of 10 years of progressive safety leadership experience, preferably in a manufacturing or plasma environment.
• Directly related experience or a combination of directly related education and experience and/or competencies may be considered in place of the stated requirements

• Knowledge of regulatory requirements of local OSHA regulatory standards.
• Ability to develop, strengthen and sustain productive and collaborative working relationships with all levels of site management and location.
• Ability to lead cultural change across a site and experienced in leveraging multiple approaches to helping people adopt and implement sustained change.
• Ability to drive local improvement activities and programs, leveraging processes, tools and best practices
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to foster a cooperative work environment within site level communities of widely divergent technical and educational levels.
• Skilled in investigation and problem-solving including root cause analysis.
• Excellent leadership skills.
• Ability to effectively lead and manage direct reports and contract staff.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and influencing skills.
• Strong technical skills with demonstrated ability to develop safety procedures.
• High degree of organizational skill.

Occupational and Environmental Demands:

• Periodic travel across regions and sites to lead inspections, audits, and stakeholder engagements.
• Ability to adapt to varied work settings, from executive boardrooms to frontline operational sites, maintaining credibility and influence in each context.
• On-site presence in operational environments (labs, manufacturing, offices) to assess risks and model safety leadership.
• Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.  Frequently sits for 4-6 hours per day. Frequent hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.  Occasionally walks.  Occasionally bends and twists neck.  Light to moderate lifting and carrying objects with a maximum lift of 35lbs. Frequently drives to other facilities. 
• Able to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken and written words and sentences. Frequently interacts with others, relates sensitive information to diverse groups.                                

This job description is intended to present the general content and requirements for the performance of this job.  The description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements.  Managers and supervisors may assign other duties as needed.

The estimated pay scale for Senior Manager, Health, Safety and Wellbring role based in Los Angeles, California, is $128,985 to $161,230 per year. Additionally, the position is eligible to participate in up to 15% of the company bonus pool. We offer a wide variety of benefits including, but not limited to: Medical, Dental, Vision, life insurance, PTO, paid holidays and up to 5% 401(K) match and tuition reimbursement. Final compensation packages will ultimately depend on education, experience, skillset, knowledge, where the role is performed, internal equity and market data. We are committed to offering our employees opportunities for professional growth and career progression. Grifols is a global healthcare organization with employees in 30 countries focused on patient health and providing impactful results. Since our humble beginnings in 1909, Grifols has been a family company that prides itself on its family-like culture. Our company has more than tripled over the last 10 years, and you can grow with us!

Third Party Agency and Recruiter Notice:

Agencies that present a candidate to Grifols must have an active, nonexpired, Grifols Agency Master Services Agreement with the Grifols Talent Acquisition Department. Additionally, agencies may only submit candidates to positions that they have been engaged to work on by a Grifols Recruiter. All resumes must be sent to a Grifols Recruiter under these terms or they will be considered a Grifols candidate.

Grifols provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race; color; sex; gender identity; sexual orientation; religious practices and observances; national origin; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; status as a protected veteran or spouse/family member of a protected veteran; or disability.  We will consider for employment all qualified applicants in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws.

Location: NORTH AMERICA : USA : CA-Los Angeles:USVALLEY - Valley Bl Mfg Plant - LA, CA

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