Operational Field Safety Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre - Field Based and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Corporate Services
Closing date: 23 September 2025
Requisition ID: 400019766
London Store Support Centre - mostly field based (with nationwide travel ) and Home
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as the Operational Field Safety Manager presents an exciting opportunity to play a crucial role in ensuring the health and safety of our employees and customers across various locations nationwide. As a key member of our Health, Safety & Insurance team, you will have the chance to make a significant impact by providing end-to-end support across the Sainsbury Group, helping to deliver our harm reduction and operational safety aspirations – examples include working on safety management systems, incident investigations, and compliance initiatives. With a strong focus on continuous improvement and a culture of collaboration, innovation, and personal development, this role offers a rewarding and challenging environment where your contributions can directly influence the well-being of our people and enhance our commitment to safety excellence.
What you'll do
As the Operational Field Safety Manager, you will play a crucial role in providing end-to-end health and safety support and guidance across various locations, formats, and operations. Working closely with leaders across the business including senior managers, you will ensure the effective implementation of safety management systems and policies- covering a wide range of health and safety, food safety, trading standards, environmental protection, construction, and fire safety. Your responsibilities will include managing incident investigations, regulatory visits, risk assessments, and coaching to drive continual improvements in health and safety standards and culture. Additionally, you will actively participate in company-wide projects, act as a policy owner for certain health and safety processes, and contribute to the development of safety-related guidelines and procedures to enhance operational safety and performance across the organisation.
Who you are
As the Operational Field Safety Manager, you are a knowledgeable and proactive health and safety professional with a strong track record in implementing safe and legal processes in operational settings, ideally within retail and logistics environments. Your ability to drive continual improvements in health and safety standards through coaching and support, coupled with your expertise in accident investigation and root cause analysis, allows you to effectively lead and guide location teams towards harm reduction and optimal safety outcomes. With excellent communication skills, a dedication to ongoing personal development, and a commitment to fostering a culture of safety and care for our customers and colleagues. You play a pivotal role in ensuring the effective implementation of safety management systems across all locations and formats, ultimately contributing to the overall success of the organisation.
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrable experience applying safe and legal operational processes to ensure compliance across multiple locations.
- Proven understanding of Health & Safety and Food Safety & Hygiene standards, ideally within retail, logistics, or similar operational environments.
- Commitment to achieving a recognised qualification in Health & Safety or Food Safety (e.g. NEBOSH Diploma, NCRQ, CIEH Level 4) within an agreed timeframe.
- Evidence of coaching others to improve performance and support fair, consistent decision-making.
- Track record of influencing internal and external stakeholders to implement safety initiatives and drive compliance.
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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
