Senior Health & Safety Manager
Why Superdrug?
Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.
We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.
Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.
Here's the exciting bit…a day includes
The Senior Health and Safety Manager Role will be for Retail and overseeing Supply Chain.
Reporting to the Head of Health, Safety and Facilities and is accountable for developing and implementing the organisational health, safety and fire strategy, providing expert advice to the organisational stakeholders on health, safety and fire matters and influencing and contributing to the development of organisational policies and procedures.
The position holder will be required to communicate health and safety performance and initiatives across the organisation, act as the primary point of contact for health and safety matters with external stakeholders, and report on incident trends and statistics.
Responsibilities include:
Strong implementation skills, an excellent communicator and a team leader with a proven track record of developing compliance with health & safety.Engagement of all levels of an organization to improving the overall safety culture.
Embedding the ownership and accountability of health & safety is important within site management teams and at the same time the awareness of being operational.
To keep abreast of legislation and compliance requirements, assuring business awareness and facilitating any changes required to maintain a legal business operation.
Building working relationships with governing bodies, local authorities and primary authorities’ partnerships.
Support the development of the strategic business plan with particular regards to H&S initiatives, projects and targets.
Lead all legal compliance requirements for the business, auditing as necessary to identify any gaps. Lead and assist in gap planning needs, offering solutions and guidance.
Develop and maintain health and safety policies and procedures. Keeping key business duty holders informed and instructed.
Building business strategy around health and safety management
Develop a site management system or the control of health and safety, meeting the requirements of relevant guidance.
Developing and leading the H&S Team & wider teams on health and safety projects
Provision of an effective safety monitoring and control regime including programmes of
visits, inspections, spot checks and audits, prioritising high risk activities.
Forecast, review and control of budgets for health, safety and Fire Strategy.
Work with all relevant key stakeholders (Store Operations, Distribution Services, Property, Legal) to develop and maintain a positive safety culture.
Working in collaboration with other stakeholders to support the business units with Pest Management controls.
Provision of comprehensive training programmes on safety procedures and compliance requirements.
Lead the businesses risk management software agenda to ensure a data driven system is in place.
Manage the health and safety team. Setting suitable KPI’s for the delivery of H&S and Fire strategy and reviewing direct reports performance.
Qualifications and Experience:
Essentials:
Relevant health and safety experience gained in a multi - site in retail / service industryLevel 6 Occupational Health & Safety Qualification
Fire Safety Qualification.
Memberships within Health & Safety / Fire Organisations i.e. CMIOSH, MIFPO.
Desirable:
Experience in Transport Occupational Health and Safety Road RiskExperience in contract management, procurement and governance contracts
Experience with Primary Authority Partnerships
Experience in Pest Management
Experience in Pharmacy / Healthcare sector
Here's what's in it for you- 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
- 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
- 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
- Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
- Company pension matching and bonus
- We offer Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
- Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK
- We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
- Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes
Come and be part of something special.
Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.
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