HSE Manager
Job title: HSE Manager - Japan
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
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About the job
As HSE Manager within our Corporate Functions / Workplace Experience team, you'll lead the development of a proactive safety culture across Sanofi Japan - driving Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) compliance, employee wellbeing, and environmental sustainability in close partnership with senior leadership and all business units. Ready to get started?
Ready to push the limits of what's possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.
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About Sanofi
We're an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people's lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system - and innovative pipeline - enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives.
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Main responsibilities
- Lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of HSE strategies and programs that ensure safe working practices and build a proactive safety culture across all Sanofi Japan activities.
- Identify legal obligations and develop strategies to ensure compliance across health, safety, environment, and workers' compensation - keeping management informed of all statutory requirements and industry codes of practice.
- Drive HSE training programs (including Road Safety and Ergonomics) and continuous improvement activities; investigate safety incidents and develop corrective action programs, completing monthly and annual reporting.
- Manage the HSE Management System, including risk assessments, contractor HSE compliance, medical surveillance, accident reporting, and facility audits with follow-up on corrective action plans.
- Lead energy efficiency, recycling, and environmental initiatives to minimize the business's environmental impact and support Sanofi's sustainability commitments.
- Support employee health and wellbeing by managing Medical Room operations and deploying health promotion and wellness programs across the organization.
- Collaborate with the Workplace Experience team, building management, occupational health, and People & Culture to ensure a safe, sustainable, and healthy workplace environment.
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About you
- Experience: Proven experience in HSE, ideally within a matrix organization in a multinational company.
- Skills: Strong research and analytical skills; sound understanding of legislative and regulatory requirements; demonstrated experience developing, implementing, and maintaining HSE management systems; coaching and influencing skills at all levels; effective communication and presentation skills; strong problem-solving ability.
- Certifications: HSE Professional (衛生管理者) and Infectious Waste Management and Control (特別管理廃棄物（感染性）) certification or license strongly preferred.
- Languages: Native-level Japanese and business-level English required (spoken and written).
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Why choose us?
- Make your work count by supporting a company that brings life-changing treatments to millions - and is committed to doing right by patients, communities, and the planet.
- Drive progress from within by helping simplify, scale, and modernize how a global biopharma business delivers smarter, faster, and more sustainably.
- Advance your career through stretch roles, cross-functional moves, and development opportunities designed to match your ambition.
- Thrive in inclusive, high-performing teams where every role matters and every voice helps shape what's next.
- Play a central role in shaping a proactive safety culture across one of Sanofi's key markets, working closely with senior leadership and all business units.
- Contribute to employee wellbeing and sustainability initiatives in a modern, collaborative Tokyo workplace.
- Enjoy a well-rounded rewards package including flexible working options, comprehensive healthcare, and 14 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave.
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Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.
Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what's never-been-done-before. You'll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people's lives? Let's Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary - together.
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At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Pursue progress, discover extraordinary
Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people - people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.
Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!