Divisional Head of Health & Safety
Company Shop Group, part of Biffa
Salary- £75-85k plus a performance related bonus and car or car allowance.
Hours- 40 hours per week Monday-Friday
Location- Tankersley, Barnsley
Hybrid role- 3 days a week in the office , two days from home.
Company Shop Group (CSG), part of Biffa, are the largest commercial redistributor of surplus food and household products in the UK. We enable some of the biggest retailers, manufacturers, food service and logistics providers to unlock value from surplus stock which may otherwise have gone to waste.
The surplus we handle is redistributed through our Company Shop stores and our award-winning social enterprise, Community Shop, where we help build stronger individuals and more confident communities.
Working with our partners, we deliver an incredible impact – and we're proud to be a good business doing good.
The role
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and influential Divisional Head of Health & Safety to provide strategic Health & Safety leadership across our Division.
Reporting directly to the Divisional Managing Director, with a professional reporting relationship to the Group Director of Health & Safety, you'll be a key member of both the Divisional Leadership Team and the Group Health & Safety Leadership Team.
This is a senior leadership role with significant opportunity to influence how we operate. You'll work closely with operational leaders to ensure they have the capability, confidence and support to effectively own and manage risk within their areas.
Rather than simply directing Health & Safety activity, you'll act as a trusted strategic business partner – coaching, challenging and influencing leaders, helping embed strong operational ownership of Health & Safety and ensuring our business decisions balance effective risk management with commercial priorities.
You'll also lead and develop our divisional Health & Safety function, with responsibility for a wider H&S team.
What you'll be doing
As our Divisional Head of Health & Safety, you'll:
Act as the principal Health & Safety adviser to the Divisional Managing Director and Divisional Leadership Team, influencing operational, strategic and commercial decision-making.
Build Health & Safety capability across our operational leadership teams, ensuring ownership of risk sits with those managing the work.
Coach, support and constructively challenge leaders to continually improve risk management and safety performance.
Promote visible safety leadership and help develop a positive, proactive Health & Safety culture.
Lead, develop and inspire the divisional H&S team, maintaining high professional standards and supporting talent and succession planning.
Provide independent assurance over the effectiveness of risk controls, maintaining oversight of critical risks and escalating significant concerns where necessary.
Ensure incidents and significant events are effectively investigated and, importantly, that learning is translated into meaningful organisational improvement.
Work collaboratively with the Group Health & Safety function, contributing to Group standards and sharing learning, innovation and good practice across the wider business.
Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and use evidence, insight and risk to influence operational and investment decisions.
Requirements
What we're looking for
We're looking for an established Health & Safety leader who has experience of working at SLT level, reporting to an MD.
The individual will combine strong technical expertise with excellent commercial judgement and influencing skills.
You'll bring at least 8–10 years' experience leading Health & Safety teams, ideally within a large and operationally complex organisation, with a strong track record of developing and successfully delivering H&S improvement strategies.
You'll also have:
A Level 3 NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety, or demonstrable equivalent.
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