Global Health Lead

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Date: 17 Mar 2026

Location: Amsterdam, NL

Company: HEINEKEN

 

Department: PEOPLE (Health & Safety)

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Parttime/Fulltime: Fulltime

Closing date: 1st April 2026

 

We’re looking for a Health & Wellbeing expert to help shape and deliver HEINEKEN’s global agenda, supporting the physical, mental, and social health of our people across all regions and operating companies.

In this role, you will translate strategy into impactful, scalable programs that promote, prevent, and protect employee health, while ensuring access to quality care when needed. Working closely with global and local stakeholders, you will help develop and implement health standards, risk reduction initiatives, and global reporting frameworks, while strengthening local networks and capabilities.

This is a great opportunity for someone who brings strong expertise in occupational health within a multinational environment, and who enjoys combining strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, navigating complexity, and driving meaningful impact at scale.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

1.Responsibility (scope): The Health of our employees across the physical, mental, and social domains is the core responsibility of this role. This is delivered through programs, clinical governance, contract management and capacity building of the workforce, that together promote, prevent and protect health while assuring appropriate access to treatment in case of illness or injury.
2.Responsibility (nature of work): Work closely with Global Health & Wellbeing Manager (CMO) to project manage (part of a) projects across HEINEKEN impacting all employees and all functions, OpCos, Regions. Seen as a specialist, expert in a specific field providing professional support within own function, OpCo, Region / procedural work (with a broad scope and using complex systems) 
3.Responsibility (budget): indirectly >1 MEuro
4.Responsibility: Defines and develops unified standards and protocols for occupational health based on health risk assessments in line with global best practice and local legal requirements
5.Role: Develop locally adaptable health risk reduction program(s) and implement globally including standardized global reporting and monitoring
6.Role: Lead the prevention and health promotion programs, leveraging local expertise and networks
7.Role: Assure equitable access to internal and external healthcare services across opco’s through direct service delivery and/or health insurance schemes
8.Role: Continued reviewing and updating of the global health policies, standards and protocols

 

 

Experience & Profile

 

  • Education: University level - Medical/Health
  • Work experience: 5–10 years
  • Required work experience in field of expertise: Demonstrated experience in health & wellbeing management in a large multinational company (preferably FMCG)
  • Other fields of expertise: International health management
  • Functional skills: Medical/health degree, experience with reporting and management systems, knowledge of industry trends
  • Languages: English, full proficiency
  • Communication skills: Manages relationships with stakeholders (with conflicting interests) on strategic, tactical level. Communicates through understanding, influencing and/or serving others and requires more than facts to win arguments and influence others. Interaction with others requires social skills and the ability to understand and influence others.
  • Other skills: Project management, people management, building collaborative relationships, change management, influencing skills, managing without control

 

 

Let’s meet  


Are you excited? Applying is simple: send us your updated CV that demonstrates why you’re a perfect match for this role. Want to really stand out? Include a cover letter to set yourself apart. We look forward to receiving your application. 

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact Rachna Ramanathan, Talent Acquisition Business Partner, at rachna.ramanathan@heineken.com.  

The closing date for this vacancy is the 1st of April 2026. After that, we will make a selection and you will hear from us within 5 days. Cheers!


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