CoE Lead Safety, Workspace & Wellbeing

Role Overview\n\nThe CoE Lead Safety, Workspace & Wellbeing is a strategic leadership position at Safaricom Kenya responsible for transforming safety, workspace, and wellbeing into drivers of business performance, employee experience, and resilience. This role focuses on transitioning from reactive to proactive, data-driven, and future-fit models, ensuring that the work environment enables peak productivity and innovation.\n\n### Key Responsibilities\n\nG4G Transformation & Strategy\n- Lead the delivery of G4G transformation across Safety, Workspace, and Wellbeing as a driver of commercial intensity and futuristic thinking.\n- Translate enterprise strategy into fit-for-purpose workplace models that enable productivity and performance.\n- Position Safety and Wellbeing as strategic enablers of business performance, employee experience, and resilience.\n- Drive transformation of workplace and safety practices from reactive to proactive, data-driven, and future-fit models.\n- Embed a high-performance culture across environments, linking safety, wellbeing, and workspace to business outcomes.\n\nAI & Digital-First Safety\n- Embed AI and digital solutions to transition safety management from reactive to predictive and preventive.\n- Leverage real-time data and analytics to identify risks and drive proactive interventions.\n- Introduce intelligent monitoring systems across workplaces to reduce hazardous exposures and automate safety reporting.\n- Integrate safety systems with enterprise digital platforms for seamless visibility and control.\n\nSafety, Health & Wellbeing Strategy & Governance\n- Define and lead the enterprise SHW strategy, institutionalizing a proactive, risk-based safety culture.\n- Establish and enforce enterprise-wide safety governance, standards, and policies aligned to global benchmarks.\n- Lead identification, assessment, and mitigation of safety risks across physical and hybrid environments.\n- Oversee audits, inspections, and compliance reviews across all locations and subsidiaries.\n\nWorkplace Experience & Future Strategy\n- Lead the design and delivery of end-to-end workplace experiences across physical and hybrid environments.\n- Define and implement future workplace strategy aligned to Agile, AI-first, and hybrid ways of working.\n- Drive workplace innovation to support agility, speed, and enterprise productivity.\n- Optimize property footprint and workplace costs while maintaining high standards.\n\nEmployee Wellbeing & Medical Scheme Management\n- Lead enterprise wellbeing strategy, embedding it as a driver of performance and productivity.\n- Oversee medical schemes, ensuring access, quality of care, and cost efficiency.\n- Implement AI-enabled, hyper-personalized medical offerings tailored to diverse employee segments.\n\nAgile & Value Management\n- Enable adoption of agile ways of working within the Safety, Workspace, and Wellbeing function.\n- Lead value optimization across investments, ensuring ROI on workplace and health programs.\n- Manage vendors and partners to ensure quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.\n\n### Qualifications and Experience\n- Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Health, Engineering, Facilities Management, Business Administration, or a related field.\n- Master’s degree in a related discipline is an added advantage.\n- Professional certification in Health & Safety (e.g., NEBOSH, IOSH, or equivalent) is required.\n- Demonstrated experience in leading enterprise-wide safety, health, and workplace functions within a large, complex organization.\n- Strong expertise in safety governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance frameworks.\n- Proven experience in workplace and facilities management, property portfolio oversight, and vendor management.\n- Experience in designing hybrid and future-of-work models.\n- Strong financial acumen with experience in budget management and healthcare cost optimization.\n- Demonstrated ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders across HR, Finance, Technology, and Operations.\n\n### How to Apply\nInterested and qualified candidates should apply via the Safaricom career portal. Direct applications can be submitted through the provided application link which redirects to the official Safaricom Oracle Cloud recruitment platform.