Company Description
At De Beers Group, our purpose is to Make Life Brilliant.
We believe that a sustainable business is purposeful, competitive, resilient, and agile – thriving through both economic and social cycles. By listening deeply to our stakeholders and constantly innovating, we create enduring value for our employees, communities, governments, and partners. Sustainability is at the heart of our decision‑making — it is how we do business.
The De Beers Safety & Sustainable Development (S&SD) team shapes and drives our Building Forever sustainability ambition across the value chain. This includes creating safe, healthy, and thriving workplaces and ensuring our operations meet the highest medical, occupational health, and hygiene standards.
We are seeking a
Senior Health Manager – Workplace Health to join our S&SD team. This role provides group-level tactical support across upstream, midstream, and downstream operations, ensuring excellence in medicine, occupational health, hygiene oversight, governance, and assurance.
Job Description
Purpose of the Role
The Senior Health Manager – Workplace Health supports the Principal Occupational Hygiene & Health in defining, implementing, and monitoring the Group’s Medicine & Occupational Hygiene (M&OH) strategies, risk frameworks, and performance requirements.
The role ensures that De Beers maintains world‑class workplace health standards through:
- Development of clinical and occupational health policies, guidelines, and standards
- Governance, incident oversight, risk management, and assurance
- Support to business units and contracted medical service providers
- Monitoring compliance with legal and corporate requirements
- Health performance reporting and KPI tracking
- Providing expert guidance on clinical governance, employee health data management, medical incapacity, and occupational hygiene appreciation
Key Tasks And Responsibilities
Strategy & Delivery
- Contribute to the development and implementation of Group Medicine & Occupational Hygiene strategies, objectives, and risk frameworks.
- Provide technical input into the development of Group policies, standards, frameworks, guidelines, training, and assurance tools.
- Guide and support BU/site Medicine and Occupational Hygiene teams in delivering health risk mitigation plans.
- Analyse emerging occupational health and medical issues and recommend interventions.
- Support the development of clinical standards and clinical governance processes.
- Support emergency and crisis medical response capability across the Group.
Governance, Reporting & Assurance
- Oversee health incident reporting, investigation, and analysis.
- Participate in group-level first, second, and third line assurance activities aligned to Group standards.
- Support site compliance with legal, regulatory, and corporate health requirements.
- Coordinate Group health performance reporting, dashboards, and KPI tracking.
- Maintain defensible and auditable documentation.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Collaborate with operational leaders, technical teams, contracted medical service providers, and cross‑functional partners (e.g., HR, Wellness, Safety).
- Represent the function in internal and external forums, networks, and advocacy bodies.
- Build trusted relationships with professional associations, regulatory bodies, government entities, and academia.
Qualifications
- Medical Degree (MBChB or equivalent).
- Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Health from a recognised institution
Experience
- Minimum 5 years’ experience designing and implementing occupational health programmes.
- Experience in clinical governance, medical records management, patient confidentiality, and workplace medicine practices.
- Technical expertise in occupational health management within mining or heavy industry (advantageous but not mandatory if willing to learn quickly).
Post‑Appointment Development (Advantageous But Not Required Upfront)
- Basic Principles of Occupational Hygiene.
- ISO 45001 Management Systems.
- Understanding of Occupational Hygiene assurance frameworks.
Technical & Behavioural Skills
- Strong knowledge of occupational health legislation (SA and/or other jurisdictions).
- Experience working in complex stakeholder environments.
- Ability to design standards, guidelines, and clinical governance models.
- Strong assurance, auditing, and reporting capability.
- Project management, communication, and stakeholder influencing skills.
- Ability to quickly adapt and learn the mining environment where needed.
Additional Information
Values
Put Safety First – We consider all risks to people and the environment before proceeding with any activity. We address risks before beginning any activity, even if this means stopping a task. Zero Harm is always our goal.
Be Passionate – We are exhilarated by the product we sell, the challenges we face and the opportunities we create.
Pull Together – Being united in purpose and action, we will turn the diversity of our people, skills and experience into an unparalleled source of strength.
Build Trust– We will always listen first, then act with openness, honesty and integrity so that our relationships flourish
Show we Care – The people whose lives we touch, their communities, nations and the environment we share, all matter deeply to us. We will always think through the consequences of what we do so that our contribution to the world is real, lasting and makes us proud.
Shape the Future – We will find new ways. We will set demanding targets and take both tough decisions and considered risks to achieve them. We will insist on excellent execution and reward those who deliver.
Additional Information
Who we are:
Established in 1888, De Beers Group is the world’s leading diamond company with unrivalled expertise in the exploration, mining, sorting, valuing, selling and marketing of diamonds. Together with our joint venture partners, we operate in more than 20 countries across six continents.
We want our diamonds, and our business, to make life brilliant – for our people, our customers and the world around us.
We build partnerships and connect with our people and their communities to make a positive contribution to the wider world. We’re constantly developing new ways to make an impact and build a beneficial legacy. We call it ‘Building Forever’ - it’s fundamental to our pioneering spirit and the purposeful way we do business.
Eligibility Criteria
This role is open only to individuals who currently have right to work in the country stated and we will not be supporting any individuals who might need to relocate.
Closing date: 12 February 2026
