Snr Health Manager - Workplace Health

Overview

Company Description

At De Beers Group, our purpose is to Make Life Brilliant. We believe that a sustainable business is purposeful, competitive, resilient, and agile – thriving through both economic and social cycles. By listening deeply to our stakeholders and constantly innovating, we create enduring value for our employees, communities, governments, and partners. Sustainability is at the heart of our decision‑making — it is how we do business.

The De Beers Safety & Sustainable Development (S&SD) team shapes and drives our Building Forever sustainability ambition across the value chain. This includes creating safe, healthy, and thriving workplaces and ensuring our operations meet the highest medical, occupational health, and hygiene standards.

We are seeking a Senior Health Manager – Workplace Health to join our S&SD team. This role provides group-level tactical support across upstream, midstream, and downstream operations, ensuring excellence in medicine, occupational health, hygiene oversight, governance, and assurance.

Job Description

Purpose of the Role

The Senior Health Manager – Workplace Health supports the Principal Occupational Hygiene & Health in defining, implementing, and monitoring the Group’s Medicine & Occupational Hygiene (M&OH) strategies, risk frameworks, and performance requirements.

The role ensures that De Beers maintains world‑class workplace health standards through:

• Development of clinical and occupational health policies, guidelines, and standards
• Governance, incident oversight, risk management, and assurance
• Support to business units and contracted medical service providers
• Monitoring compliance with legal and corporate requirements
• Health performance reporting and KPI tracking
• Providing expert guidance on clinical governance, employee health data management, medical incapacity, and occupational hygiene appreciation

Strategy & Delivery

• Contribute to the development and implementation of Group Medicine & Occupational Hygiene strategies, objectives, and risk frameworks.
• Provide technical input into the development of Group policies, standards, frameworks, guidelines, training, and assurance tools.
• Guide and support BU/site Medicine and Occupational Hygiene teams in delivering health risk mitigation plans.
• Analyse emerging occupational health and medical issues and recommend interventions.
• Support the development of clinical standards and clinical governance processes.
• Support emergency and crisis medical response capability across the Group.

Governance, Reporting & Assurance

• Oversee health incident reporting, investigation, and analysis.
• Participate in group-level first, second, and third line assurance activities aligned to Group standards.
• Support site compliance with legal, regulatory, and corporate health requirements.
• Coordinate Group health performance reporting, dashboards, and KPI tracking.
• Maintain defensible and auditable documentation.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with operational leaders, technical teams, contracted medical service providers, and cross‑functional partners (e.g., HR, Wellness, Safety).
• Represent the function in internal and external forums, networks, and advocacy bodies.
• Build trusted relationships with professional associations, regulatory bodies, government entities, and academia.

Qualifications

• Medical Degree (MBChB or equivalent).
• Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Health from a recognised institution

Experience

• Minimum 5 years’ experience designing and implementing occupational health programmes.
• Experience in clinical governance, medical records management, patient confidentiality, and workplace medicine practices.
• Technical expertise in occupational health management within mining or heavy industry (advantageous but not mandatory if willing to learn quickly).

Post‑Appointment Development (Advantageous)

• Basic Principles of Occupational Hygiene.
• ISO 45001 Management Systems.
• Understanding of Occupational Hygiene assurance frameworks.

Technical & Behavioural Skills

• Strong knowledge of occupational health legislation (SA and/or other jurisdictions).
• Experience working in complex stakeholder environments.
• Ability to design…