Regional HSES Business Partner

We are looking for a Regional HSES Business Partner UKI & EMEA. The Regional HSES Business Partner is responsible for ensuring delivery of effective HSES management services in the relevant geographic area, so that LRQA can continue to build on its safety culture through safeguarding the health, wellbeing, safety and security of people within our organisation and beyond. This is a highly proactive and collaborative role and will act as the key liaison point between the Regional Leadership Team and the Global Head of HSES, Country Directors, local line management, local HSES Leads, HSES Representatives and Wellbeing Ambassadors. The role can be positioned in UKI as well as EMEA.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and champion LRQA's vision for HSES to embrace and ensure Safety I and Safety II in the Region by driving improvement of physical safety, psychological safety, health and wellbeing and providing leadership and expertise in improving LRQA’s HSES performance with data driven insights.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with the Regional EVP and wider leadership team and become their go-to advisor for all HSES compliance matters.
• Ensuring all colleagues understand and comply with their local legal HSES requirements, internal policies and relevant international/local standards.
• Ensure HSES management information is delivered to the EVP and the leadership team on a regular basis – providing key insights into data upon which leadership decisions can be made efficiently and effectively.
• Monitor HSES performance, including collecting and analysing incident statistics and information to support policy implementation, the preservation of safe systems of work adhering to LRQA’s safety management system.
• Analyse predictive HSES indicators to identify where controls or HSES performance are deficient and make recommendations on how safety performance can be improved.
• Stay up to date with regulatory, standards and client HSES initiatives/requirements.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations, internal policies and international and local standards, including conducting risk assessments and internal audits, supporting external audits and managing findings.
• Support compliance to our HSES management system, identify trends that have a direct impact on LRQA and provide recommendations for improvements.
• Introduce improvements and lead the evolution towards an engaging, dynamic, innovative and world class HSES culture which is focused on individual accountability, actions and behaviours, by leading projects within the Region as well as projects with a global impact.
• Demonstrate thought leadership on HSES issues to build and improve LRQA’s HSES culture, for both internal and external audiences.
• Manage, support and advise local HSES Leaders, HSES Representatives and LRQA Wellbeing Ambassadors on how they can pro-actively support the health, wellbeing, safety and security of colleagues.
• Provide forums for continuing professional development within the HSES arena and ensure that the region maintains an appropriate number of professionals in the HSES space to deliver on our obligations.
• Conduct thorough investigations into workplace incidents, accidents, near misses, best practices, including wellbeing incidents, to identify root causes, recommend or initiate corrective actions and lessons learned, and liaise with stakeholders to improve LRQA’s HSES performance.
• Provide data and expert HSES advice on bids/tenders and client-facing activities.
• Stay informed of (potential) emergency or crisis situations in the area and provide HSES expertise and support in the event of a (potential) emergency or crisis involving LRQA, LRQA staff or LRQA locations.
• If necessary, initiate measures to manage or reduce the risks and impact of (potential) emergency or crisis situations.

Job requirements:

• Qualified HSES professional with a BSc or MSc degree or equivalent and preferably technical.
• A solid understanding of the requirements of the ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 standards.
• Proven record of managing HSES issues including wellbeing at organisations.
• Solid experience in undertaking health and safety inspections, audits and specific risk assessments.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with the ability to persuade, influence and when appropriate challenge with tact and diplomacy.
• Coaching skills to support, advise and coach on a wide range of HSES and wellbeing matters.
• Ability to translate health and safety knowledge into actions and to use knowledge to anticipate business requirements.
• A keen eye for identifying and implementing continuous improvements.
• Experienced in incident investigation and root cause analysis with solid analytical skills, to present the findings, identifying areas of risk, opportunities & solutions.
• Demonstrated success in managing HSES across multiple countries and adapting to diverse regulatory environments.
• Excellent and confident communicator in both verbal and written correspondence.
• The ability to work both within a team and independently.
• Fluent in English and another language is preferred.
• Outstanding MS Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).