The Role
Lead GSO compliance efforts, ensuring supplier adherence to legal and safety standards, promoting sustainability, and overseeing internal audits and performance KPIs.
Summary Generated by Built In
- Leadership
- Under the direction of GSO senior management, collaborate with GSO Product Management and Supply Chain Team Leaders to solve problems, increase efficiency, promote teamwork and continually improve performance across all GSO functions and processes.
- Be a role model for Brenntag/GSO Core Values and Code of Conduct. This includes demonstrating a safety mindset and ethical behavior in all internal and external activities, communications and relationships.
- Support senior management to communicate with “one voice” regarding GSO activities and announcements.
- Compliance/Risk Management
- GSO suppliers, their products and business activities conform to Brenntag requirements for safety, quality, trade compliance and social responsibility guidelines.
- All GSO transactions conform to legal and regulatory requirements in source and destination countries and comply with relevant international standards.
- GSO personnel understand, execute and document safety, regulatory and compliance KPIs in accordance with Brenntag/GSO policies.
- Work functionally with BSP regulatory team as GSO compliance representative
- Sustainability
- Engage GSO suppliers in efforts to identify, document and improve sustainable manufacturing and operating practices in support of Brenntag sustainability strategy and TfS objectives.
- Serve as GSO representative to China/APAC TfS region and work stream programs.Report on activities and initiatives to GSO management and Brenntag sustainability group in Essen.
- Work functionally with BSP regulatory team as GSO compliance representative
- Performance
- Support GSO PMs to lead new and existing supplier audits and visits in accordance with necessary industry standards/certification, propose gaps and improvement plans accordingly, and monitor gap closure.
- Able to challenge the reports from 3rd party company audits of our suppliers as and when necessary and provide own feedback and improvements.
- Establish, communicate and monitor individual and team KPIs in support of Brenntag/GSO objectives. This includes but may not be limited to,
- GSO employee safety programs and near miss reporting guidelines
- Supplier audits, documentation and on-going compliance monitoring
- Supplier compliance with Brenntag code of conduct
- Non-conformance monitoring, follow-up, resolution and reporting
- GSO compliance with regional compliance programs including ADD and REACH
- Lead Compliance team members to identity and implement best practices to document, report and maintain GSO compliance.
- Provide direct supervision of team members to support problem solving and other activities as needed to meet individual and team KPIs.
- Develop, implement and maintain written SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) to ensure GSO compliance processes are clear, concise and well understood. Conduct periodic training of all affected GSO team members.
- Education: Bachelor's degree (B.A. or B.S.) from a four-year college or university is required. Master’s degree in business Admin a plus.
- Experience: Minimum 8 - 10 or more required) years’ experience in auditing, quality, safety, health and/or environment within the specialty chemical industry (Food, personal care, pharma industries preferred).
- Others: Fluent in English (verbal and written)
- Able to work effectively in the absence of daily direct supervision
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills able to work effectively in a multi-culture team environment
- Strong customer orientation
- Mature organization skills with strong attention to detail
- Goal and results driven
- Highly motivated, committed, effective and supportive team member, able to work flexibly, quickly and accurately to achieve tight deadlines.
- Able to travel (domestic & international) as required to meet business needs
- Strong Excel, Word and PowerPoint presentation skills
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field
- Minimum 8-10 years of relevant experience
- Fluent in English
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience in specialty chemical industry preferred
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The Company
What We Do
We are the global market leader in full-line range of chemical & ingredient products and value-added services. Our more than 17,500 employees provide tailor-made application, marketing and supply chain solutions. Our full-line portfolio comprises specialty and industrial chemicals and ingredients of a world-class supplier base. Building on our long-standing experience, unmatched global reach and local excellence, we work closely alongside our partners to make their business more successful. We operate a unique global network with about 600 locations in 72 countries.
