Company Description
Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.
Job Description
As Regional Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) Manager for Europe, you will lead the strategy that protects our people, communities, and planet. Reporting to the Global Head of SHE, you’ll shape regional programs across Europe, influencing senior leadership and embedding a culture of safety and sustainability.
This is a strategic leadership role with direct impact on compliance, risk management, and cultural transformation. You’ll act as both advisor and hands-on leader, ensuring SHE excellence across diverse operations.
Key Responsibilities
1. Strategy & Leadership: Develop and execute the regional SHE strategy, aligning global objectives with local needs. Advise senior leaders and chair regional committees to drive accountability.
2. Compliance & Risk: Ensure adherence to SHE regulations across jurisdictions, manage permits, and lead risk assessments. Represent the company with regulators and authorities.
3. Operational Excellence: Oversee SHE programs across sites, conduct safety walks, track corrective actions, and ensure emergency preparedness.
4. Culture & People: Deliver training, communication campaigns, and leadership initiatives that embed safety and sustainability into daily operations.
5. Sustainability: Lead initiatives to reduce environmental footprint, integrate sustainability into operations, and position the company as an industry leader.
6. Data & Reporting: Define KPIs, build dashboards, and deliver clear reports that translate performance into actionable insights.
Skills & Attributes:
7. Strategic vision with operational execution.
8. Change leadership and cultural intelligence.
9. Executive presence and strong communication skills.
10. Analytical problem-solving and data-driven decision-making.
11. Collaborative, resilient, and adaptable in dynamic environments.
Experience
12. Bachelor’s degree in SHE-related field (Master’s preferred).
13. 10+ years in SHE leadership, including 5+ years in multinational, multi-site operations.
14. Proven success with ISO 45001/14001 systems and cultural transformation.
15. Strong knowledge of European SHE legislation and international standards.
16. Experience leading dispersed teams and managing budgets.
17. Willingness to travel up to 30% across Europe
Additional Information
Why It Matters
Every program you design, every decision you influence, and every conversation you lead has the power to save lives, protect the environment, and strengthen communities. Here, SHE is not a compliance function. It is a competitive advantage and a moral imperative. Your leadership will directly contribute to our sustainability commitments, our license to operate, and most importantly, ensuring that every person goes home safe and healthy each day.
What We Offer
We provide a dynamic and stimulating international environment, which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
Our Benefits
18. Competitive salary and benefits
19. Hybrid work available (not applicable to all roles)
20. Pension contributions
21. Access to Training and Development
Sustainability
Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company.
We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us
Diversity & Inclusion
LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards, with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA.
LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.
LDC encourages diversity, supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.
Company Description
Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.
Job Description
As Regional Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) Manager for Europe, you will lead the strategy that protects our people, communities, and planet. Reporting to the Global Head of SHE, you’ll shape regional programs across Europe, influencing senior leadership and embedding a culture of safety and sustainability.
This is a strategic leadership role with direct impact on compliance, risk management, and cultural transformation. You’ll act as both advisor and hands-on leader, ensuring SHE excellence across diverse operations.
Key Responsibilities
22. Strategy & Leadership: Develop and execute the regional SHE strategy, aligning global objectives with local needs. Advise senior leaders and chair regional committees to drive accountability.
23. Compliance & Risk: Ensure adherence to SHE regulations across jurisdictions, manage permits, and lead risk assessments. Represent the company with regulators and authorities.
24. Operational Excellence: Oversee SHE programs across sites, conduct safety walks, track corrective actions, and ensure emergency preparedness.
25. Culture & People: Deliver training, communication campaigns, and leadership initiatives that embed safety and sustainability into daily operations.
26. Sustainability: Lead initiatives to reduce environmental footprint, integrate sustainability into operations, and position the company as an industry leader.
27. Data & Reporting: Define KPIs, build dashboards, and deliver clear reports that translate performance into actionable insights.
Skills & Attributes:
28. Strategic vision with operational execution.
29. Change leadership and cultural intelligence.
30. Executive presence and strong communication skills.
31. Analytical problem-solving and data-driven decision-making.
32. Collaborative, resilient, and adaptable in dynamic environments.
Experience
33. Bachelor’s degree in SHE-related field (Master’s preferred).
34. 10+ years in SHE leadership, including 5+ years in multinational, multi-site operations.
35. Proven success with ISO 45001/14001 systems and cultural transformation.
36. Strong knowledge of European SHE legislation and international standards.
37. Experience leading dispersed teams and managing budgets.
38. Willingness to travel up to 30% across Europe
Additional Information
Why It Matters
Every program you design, every decision you influence, and every conversation you lead has the power to save lives, protect the environment, and strengthen communities. Here, SHE is not a compliance function. It is a competitive advantage and a moral imperative. Your leadership will directly contribute to our sustainability commitments, our license to operate, and most importantly, ensuring that every person goes home safe and healthy each day.
What We Offer
We provide a dynamic and stimulating international environment, which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
Our Benefits
39. Competitive salary and benefits
40. Hybrid work available (not applicable to all roles)
41. Pension contributions
42. Access to Training and Development
Sustainability
Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company.
We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us
Diversity & Inclusion
LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards, with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA.
LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.
LDC encourages diversity, supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.