Health & Safety Manager - Events

Health & Safety Manager (12-Month Fixed Term Contract)

Location: London Bridge (with travel to Wales and Scotland)
Salary: £60,000 - £65,000 + Benefits
Contract: Fixed Term Contract 12 Months

About the Opportunity

We are recruiting on behalf of our client, a leading organisation that delivers some of the UK's most recognised and prestigious mass participation events. They are seeking an experienced Health & Safety Manager to join their team on a 12-month fixed-term contract.

This is an exciting opportunity for a health and safety professional with a strong events background to work across a diverse portfolio of event operations, supporting partner organisations and subsidiary businesses to develop, implement and enhance their health and safety systems and culture.

The role requires regular travel to Wales and Scotland, where two subsidiary businesses are based.

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Health, Safety & Security, and working closely with colleagues across the Optimisation and Workspace & Properties teams, you will develop strong relationships with partner and subsidiary stakeholders, helping them strengthen their health and safety systems and practices while reviewing performance against existing audit findings.

Although the primary focus is event safety, you will also support subsidiary businesses in managing health and safety across corporate and facilities environments, as well as warehousing and logistics operations.

You will be responsible for developing and aligning partner and subsidiary policies and arrangements with the organisation's existing health and safety framework. Working alongside the Optimisation team, you will help ensure existing and newly acquired partner and subsidiary businesses have proportionate, effective and practical health and safety arrangements informed by existing audit findings.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan partner and subsidiary health and safety assurance roadmaps alongside senior leadership teams.
• Report progress to the Head of Health, Safety & Security and the Head of Optimisation.
• Support partner and subsidiary management teams in developing health and safety arrangements.
• Promote and cultivate a positive health and safety culture across partner and subsidiary businesses.
• Build strong health and safety knowledge and understanding throughout partner and subsidiary organisations.
• Support partner and subsidiary businesses with event health and safety management in accordance with the Green and Purple Guides.
• Develop robust event safety planning and delivery frameworks, creating agile and proportionate systems that engage stakeholders throughout the event lifecycle.
• Integrate with event delivery teams to ensure the safe delivery of events.
• Develop repeatable and effective systems for event health and safety management, including event safety plan authorship, review and development.

Success Measures / KPIs

• Deliver a consistent health and safety culture across a busy team managing a diverse events portfolio.
• Develop, consult on and implement health and safety policies and arrangements.
• Deliver comprehensive health and safety partner and subsidiary profiles for central oversight.

Required Skills

Technical

• NEBOSH National Diploma or equivalent.
• RQF Level 4 Diploma Crowd Safety Management.
• ISO 45001 Lead Auditor qualification.

Leadership Competencies

• Adaptable, with the ability to tailor your approach, advice and communication style to different audiences.
• Confident in analysing "work as planned" versus "work as done" and reporting findings.
• A collaborative, coaching approach with the ability to build trust and act as a business partner.
• Able to work independently, at pace, while embedding health and safety principles into routine event planning and delivery.

Required Experience

Essential

• Events-based production, management or advisory experience.
• Experience influencing mid to senior-level leadership.
• Training delivery experience.

Desirable

• Experience training, mentoring and coaching teams to create a safety-first culture.
• Previous experience working at mass participation events.
• Health and safety auditing to ISO 45001.