What You’ll Do

• Lead the development and delivery of our health and safety strategy across the business.

• Act as the senior subject matter expert, giving clear and practical advice to senior leaders and operational teams.

• Build strong relationships with site leaders and managers, creating clear accountability for health and safety at every level.

• Lead risk assessments, audits, inspections, and assurance activity across our warehouses, production environments, and offices.

• Identify and implement practical control measures, prioritising action based on the level of risk.

• Lead investigations into significant incidents and near misses, identifying root causes and ensuring actions are completed.

• Maintain clear systems for tracking incidents, risks, actions, audits, and training.

• Maintain a robust health and safety management framework that supports compliance across our UK operations.

• Keep policies, procedures, and guidance current, practical, and aligned with relevant legislation and recognised best practice.

• Ensure statutory reporting and record-keeping requirements are understood and completed appropriately.

• Work with local teams and specialist partners to support health and safety compliance across our European locations.

• Build a positive safety culture where colleagues feel confident identifying risks, raising concerns, and suggesting improvements.

• Develop training and guidance that helps managers and employees understand their responsibilities.

• Coach leaders to take genuine ownership of health and safety within their areas.

• Analyse incidents, near misses, audit findings, and other health and safety data to identify trends and emerging risks.

• Establish clear KPIs and provide regular reporting and insight to senior leadership.

• Identify opportunities to strengthen our systems, processes, and controls as the business evolves.

What You’ll Bring

• Significant experience leading health and safety within a multi-site organisation.
• Strong experience working within operational environments such as warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, or production.
• Strong working knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and its practical application.
• Experience developing and implementing health and safety strategies, policies, and management systems.
• Strong experience of risk assessment, audits, incident investigation, and root cause analysis.
• Confidence influencing senior leaders and operational teams across different levels of an organisation.
• Strong judgement, with the ability to balance compliance, risk, and operational reality.
• Comfortable travelling regularly between sites and spending significant time within operational environments.

• Experience supporting health and safety across multiple European countries or jurisdictions.

• Knowledge of European health and safety frameworks.

• Experience within a rapidly growing, changing, or geographically dispersed organisation.

• Experience working towards recognised health and safety standards or accreditations.

• A recognised professional health and safety qualification such as NEBOSH Diploma, NVQ Level 6 in Occupational Health & Safety, or an equivalent qualification.

• Chartered membership of IOSH, or demonstrable progress towards Chartered status, would be advantageous.

• A full UK driving licence would be beneficial due to the multi-site nature of the role.

In this role, living our values means:

• Make clear, evidence-based decisions and speak up when something does not feel safe or right.
• Take ownership of health and safety risks and follow actions through rather than allowing issues to drift.
• Treat people with care and respect, particularly when dealing with incidents, investigations, or difficult conversations.
• Work openly with site leaders, managers, and teams, making health and safety something we own together rather than something managed in isolation.
• Challenge constructively where standards need to improve, while staying practical about how solutions work in real operational environments.
• Stay curious about incidents, near misses, data, and feedback, using them to understand root causes and improve how we work.
• Keep the wider employee experience and needs of the business in mind when making recommendations, balancing strong standards with practical, proportionate solutions.