Chief Medical Officer

9 Sep 2026 Chief Medical Officer at Zambia Sugar Plc

• Provide strategic leadership and expert medical and occupational health advice to executive leadership and the wider business. • Lead the implementation and embedding of Medical Services strategy, minimum standards, frameworks, policies, procedures and ways of working. • Develop and embed integrated health and occupational health frameworks, policies and assurance mechanisms to protect employee health, ensure fitness for work and prevent occupational diseases. • Lead a risk-based occupational health programme, including medical surveillance, fitness-for-work assessments, health promotion and prevention of work-related illness and injury. • Partner with HR, Safety, Operations and other relevant stakeholders to develop and deliver a comprehensive employee health and wellbeing programme, integrating occupational health, physical and mental wellbeing, preventive health and health promotion to support a healthy, safe and productive workforce. • Build local medical services capability through people development, coaching and mentoring, process improvement, and the adoption of appropriate tools, technology, facilities and equipment. • Drive the optimisation of medical services to provide cost-effective, affordable and fit-for-purpose healthcare responsive to the needs of employees and their families. • Provide clinical governance and oversight across medical facilities, ensuring safe, high-quality and efficient patient care. • Provide specialist leadership and advice in managing significant health risks and disease outbreaks, including occupational health risks, malaria and other communicable and non-communicable diseases. • Manage and coordinate public health programmes including malaria, HIV/TB, non-communicable diseases, immunisation and water-quality interventions. • Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with the Ministry of Health, healthcare providers, NGOs and other stakeholders to improve employee, family and community health outcomes. • Ensure compliance with applicable healthcare legislation, professional standards, internal controls and ABF Sugar policies and minimum standards. • Provide oversight and advice on employee medical benefits, ensuring they remain appropriate, effective and sustainable. • Lead and develop multidisciplinary medical teams, creating a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and high performance. • Oversee medical services budgets, pharmacy management, healthcare infrastructure, equipment and capital investment.