Head of Health & Safety

Brighter Futures Start Here

We are an inclusive team who power two of the most iconic and loved brands, Kmart and Target. We have more than 50,000 passionate individuals across our stores, distribution centres, and offices around the globe.

With our brands touching the lives of almost two million customers every week, you’ll feel the impact of the work you’ll do every day. As a leader in the retail market, we’re optimistic about our future and yours. We’re changing at a rapid rate, giving you challenging work that you’ll be proud of.

Join the team

We are looking for a Head of Health & Safety to join our team, providing enterprise-wide leadership across Kmart Group’s large-scale, geographically dispersed retail store network, distribution centres and support functions.

This role operates as a senior leader of leaders in a high-volume, frontline operational environment, setting the strategic direction and accountability for how work health and safety, risk management, injury management and governance frameworks are embedded into day-to-day operations at scale.

You will play a critical role in ensuring safe, consistent and scalable systems of work, while enabling strong operational and commercial outcomes. As the senior functional lead, you will partner closely with the Executive Leadership Team, providing expert advice, assurance and insight on critical safety risks, regulatory obligations and emerging trends.

What you’ll be doing

• Set and deliver the enterprise WHS, risk and injury management strategy, aligned to operational and strategic priorities
• Provide leadership across safety, risk, workers compensation, return-to-work and wellbeing, ensuring consistent and scalable systems of work
• Act as the organisational authority on critical safety risks, influencing senior leaders across Stores, DCs and Corporate functions
• Establish and maintain robust governance, assurance and compliance frameworks to manage physical and psychosocial risks
• Own workers compensation, claims performance and return-to-work outcomes across the Group
• Lead serious incident response and crisis management, ensuring effective escalation, investigation and organisational learning
• Act as the primary interface with regulators and external authorities, managing inspections, investigations and enforcement matters
• Provide executive-level leadership and communication during high-risk or high-consequence events
• Translate risk insights into practical interventions, investment decisions and operational improvements that reduce harm and improve performance
• Oversee safety budgets and allocate investment aligned to risk, impact and operational priorities
• Leverage data, reporting and KPIs (including TRIFR and leading indicators) to drive decision making and continuous improvement
• Ensure learnings from incidents, audits and data insights are embedded into improved systems, processes and controls
• Lead and develop a high-performing health and safety function, building capability, succession and leadership across safety-critical roles

To be successful in this role you’ll have:

• Extensive senior leadership experience in health and safety within a large, complex, operationally intensive environment (e.g. retail, logistics or manufacturing)
• Proven track record of improving safety performance, reducing injury and claims outcomes, and embedding sustainable systems of work
• Deep expertise in Australian and New Zealand WHS legislation, compliance, assurance and regulatory frameworks, including psychosocial risk obligations
• Demonstrated experience leading serious incident investigations, crisis response and regulator engagement
• Strong capability in enterprise risk management, governance and assurance, including physical and psychosocial hazards
• Experience working with Executive Leadership Teams and governance forums, providing risk-based advice and assurance
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop multidisciplinary teams, building capability and succession pipelines
• Strong commercial acumen, including experience managing budgets and prioritising investment decisions based on risk and impact
• Advanced analytical capability, with the ability to interpret safety data and translate insights into action
• A calm, resilient and decisive leadership style, particularly in high-risk, ambiguous or incident-driven environments
  
  

Benefits we’ll offer you:

• Flexible hybrid working options through our Flex Where, Flex When, Flex Well policy.  
• A team member discount card that gives you a discount at Kmart, Target, Officeworks and Bunnings 
• Access to the Brighter Benefits program which entitles you to exclusive discounts and benefits in the areas of entertainment, travel, lifestyle, and health – with over 60 suppliers!  
• We want you to feel rewarded for your commitment and hard work that's why eligible team members get the opportunity to participate in a bonus program 
• We offer inclusive parental leave, and ongoing support offered through our partnership with Circle In for team members of all backgrounds and family circumstances  
• A dynamic learning and support program 
• Opportunity to fast track your career through our Mentor Program as a Mentee or Mentor 
• A Kudos recognition program, where you are nominated by your peers to spin a wheel, to win a stack of cool prizes 
• Great career opportunities across the broader Wesfarmers Group 

We celebrate the rich diversity of the communities in which we operate. We are committed to creating inclusive and safe environments where all our team members can contribute and succeed. We believe that all team members should feel valued, respected and safe, and strive to ensure our recruitment process is accessible and welcoming, with applications encouraged from all candidates.

We encourage you to tell us about any workplace adjustments that you would like, by emailing kmartgroupcareers@kmart.com.au.

If you would like to explore a career with Kmart and this sounds like the perfect role for you – apply now!

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