Health and Safety Manager (Retail)

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Job description

HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGER (RETAIL)

Salary: £38,000 - £42,000 + benefits

Contract length: Permanent

Location: Stratford w/ high-flex or home-based anywhere in the UK

Closing date: Sunday 12th December 2021, 23:55

Are you a self-motivated and sharp minded individual with strong health and safety experience that can help us beat cancer?

Why we need you

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Health & Safety Manager (Retail). We need you to support our retail business acting as an expert advisor on all health, safety and fire related matters.

What will I be doing?

Make an impact every day by…

• Developing, maintaining and monitoring the Health and Safety (H&S) Management System across the retail business, which includes shops, warehousing and online, ensuring it remains appropriate and effective.
• Providing expert guidance, assistance and training in the implementation of relevant H&S legislation to our retail staff and volunteers to enable them to implement safe working practices
• Develop safe operational procedures and being proactive and innovative to develop processes which drive continuous improvement in H&S performance
• Investigating accidents, incidents and developing trends and working collaboratively with field and operational teams to implement solutions
• Ensuring retail premises comply with CRUK's H&S policies and procedures, and with all UK legislation and good practice.

What skills are you looking for?

You'll be able to bring to the role…

• Proven experience of working within a retail or multi-site organization, with excellent knowledge of health and safety particularly in relation to property management, fire and construction
• Proven track record of managing and delivering an effective Health & Safety management system
• Strong knowledge of legislation and established working practices in relation to retail including online
• Proven ability to engage others and communicate using various methods along with excellent, interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
• Ability to find creative solutions to problems and a willingness to challenge conventional health and safety thinking
• NEBOSH Diploma level qualification or equivalent
• Ideally working towards chartered, equivalent status, of a recognised health and safety professional body or working towards such.

What will I gain?

Without you we wouldn't be able to achieve our aim of seeing 3 in 4 people survive cancer by 2034. So we want to reward you in as many ways as possible. Our benefits package includes discounts on anything from travel to technology, generous holiday allowance, discounted gym membership and much more. You'll also be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. And ultimately you'll know that you'll be changing lives through your work.

If you're as ambitious as we are, join our collective force and enjoy an excellent career, as we save lives and add years.