Safety and Security Leader

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role:

Elastic’s Workplace team is part of our Global HR function and has responsibility for real estate, design & construction, workplace experience & operations, environment & sustainability, occupational health & safety, corporate & event security and incident management. With continued growth across the company we support 30+ offices globally, bringing with it more Elasticians, office locations, events & travel. Elastic has a 'Distributed by Design' workplace culture; we encourage and support Elasticians wherever they decide their workplace will be, and we support this through our mantras of “Experience First” and being “Globally Consistent, Locally Relevant”.

Our team has established itself as a trusted partner to deliver workplace support and solutions that are aligned to Elastic’s operational needs. Our focus is on continuously elevating our capabilities in the areas of environment & sustainability and to further develop our corporate & event security and occupational health functions. To drive these improvements we are looking for an energetic global leader to join our team, reporting to the senior director of global workplaces.

What You Will Be Doing:

Building on the work done by our team to date, you will develop plans and set priorities within the functional areas of Corporate, Travel & Event Security, Environmental Health, Safety & Sustainability and Occupational Health. These activities will involve engaging internally across a number of functions such as HR, IT, Finance and Events (Internal / Corporate, External Fields Ops / Marketing), Sourcing and of course the rest of the global workplace team and external partner / service provider teams. With a need to develop and write policies that will require endorsement from senior executives, you will manage upwards a lot and be sensitive to Elastic’s way with words.

This position is suited to an experienced people and process leader, with a strong background in and passion for workplace health, safety and security, preferably on the international stage with a working knowledge of occupational health. Your experience will allow you to quickly establish key needs for developing and setting up systems, processes and training that will need to be put in place to ensure Elastic, its own teams, customers and workplaces are kept safe and compliant. This will all require educating and informing internal stakeholders, bringing them along the journey, and for this you will be a strong communicator with a positive can-do attitude and able to demonstrate proactivity, taking initiative where needed. Experience of working to international norms and standards such as ISO, SASB and SBTI is essential.

Due to the wide geographical spread of our locations, there will be some requirement to travel.

Key Functional Areas

Environment & Sustainability:

• Support our ESG director with relevant initiatives as required.
• Produce periodic reports on Environment & Sustainability for leadership and investors.

Corporate, Travel & Event Security:

• Oversee corporate security standards covering access control and employee security.
• Direct implementation of access control and CCTV systems standards & policies.
• Oversee Events Security & Risk Assessment process for internal & external events.

Incident / Crisis Management:

• Develop a people-focused incident / crisis management process and playbook.
• Oversee incident management plans to include roles & responsibilities and communication plans.
• Act as global incident controller, including emergency communications as needed.

Health & Safety:

• Oversee the global health & safety policy and its practical applications.
• Direct the implementation of a global H&S management system.

Occupational Health:

• Oversee the management of health checks, absenteeism and occupational health training as it pertains to each country.
• Provide support and advice to the global workplace Occupational Health lead.

General Activities:

• Establish effective working relationships with colleagues and external contacts.
• Set up an audit & action plan, with reporting metrics for each functional area.
• Develop a plan for the future of the function, including staffing and budgets.

What You Bring:

• Multi-location (regional / global) experience of at least 10 years.
• Implementation of systems / tools to support the functional areas.
• Recent experience of working with ISO & SASB standards.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People:

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

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