At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and improve global health and safety strategies across multiple locations.
- Company: Join Hiscox, a leading international specialist insurer with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy hybrid working, competitive salary, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Other info: Flexible working model to support your work-life balance.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on health and safety while shaping a safer workplace culture.
- Qualifications: 10 years in senior H&S roles; NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent preferred.
The predicted salary is between 62100 - 75900 Β£ per year.
The Group Health and Safety Lead is the most senior health and safety role within the Hiscox Group and is responsible for shaping, leading and continuously improving the global health and safety framework. This role provides strategic oversight and practical guidance across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring the organisation meets legal obligations, manages operational risk effectively and maintains a consistent approach to health and safety across offices, colleagues, suppliers and third-party partners.
The successful candidate will act as the organisation's senior subject matter expert on health and safety, influencing senior stakeholders, leading the GATES (Group and Territories Employment Safety) network and ensuring that policies, systems, training, audits and incident processes are effective, practical and aligned to business needs.
- Leading the Group health and safety management system and embedding consistent standards, governance and assurance across the global organisation.
- Acting as the UK statutory competent person and providing expert advice on legal compliance, risk mitigation and proportionate controls.
- Managing and developing the GATES network, including onboarding, guidance and oversight of local health and safety activity.
- Overseeing audits, incident reporting, investigations, corrective actions and training to strengthen organisational resilience and continuous improvement.
- Partnering with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to ensure health and safety risks are identified, managed and monitored effectively.
- Providing the Hiscox senior management team, Board, Business Unit Owners and the rest of the organisation with advice on H&S compliance, management and risk mitigation, including appropriate liability insurance purchase.
- Leading the international network of Hiscox colleagues (GATES network) responsible for H&S in their offices, covering legal compliance in each jurisdiction.
- Working with Learning and Development on the design and implementation of H&S training across the Hiscox Group.
- Designing and delivering an audit programme to provide the Board with confidence in legal compliance and implementation of Hiscox's HSMS.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Ten years' experience in a senior H&S role, those with less year and the right level of knowledge will be considered.
- NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent.
- Significant experience of managing H&S in an international organisation.
- A good understanding of the commercial context for Hiscox Group.
- An ability to connect, consult and advise with colleagues throughout the organisation.
At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job, and we are committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success. Working life does not always have to be in the office so we have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance. This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance.
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