Company Description

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes.  It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description

We are currently recruiting a Head of Health and Safety to join our team. 

In this role, you will take accountability for setting, managing and driving our H&S initiatives and strategy, with a focus on the implementation and delivery of our H&S Management System and to act as the Competent Person for Legal and General, ensuring that we are compliant, working within legislation and that our Property and Workplace Health and Safety responsibilities are being met.

What you'll be doing

• Leading on the design and provision of management information and data for H&S performance and risks across L&Gs Property and Workplace global portfolio and lead on the groupwide planning, preparation and delivery of key annual and quarterly reporting requirements to Group H&S Governance fora.
• Designing, developing and managing the development and implementation of our H&S management framework and tools, ensuring compliance with standards and regulations. Accountable for continually developing best practice and managing the output from our audit and compliance activities, ensuring that all requirements and recommendations are assessed, prioritised and delivered within agreed timescales.
• Providing practical and actionable advice and guidance to stakeholders including the Property and Workplace team and associated partners on a wide range of H&S topics. Monitoring and reporting on regulatory developments as they apply to the L&G Group, providing impact assessments for those relating to the corporate environment and employee workplace health, safety and wellbeing, establishing implications and ensuring the delivery of required actions.
• Accountable for development a set of specific, measurable, proportionate and timely KPIs that demonstrate L&Gs commitment to key aspects of occupational Health and Safety and are aligned to Group appetite. Contribute thought leadership to the Groups SME networks.
• Development and delivery of a robust cohesive communication programme for employees and key stakeholders across L&G with regards to H&S risks, opportunities, and commitments, with specific focus on engaging colleagues with practical H&S principals.
• Collaborating and leading on specific elements of developing and delivering L&G’s H&S strategy across the Group, with particular focus on occupational health, safety and wellbeing in line with our Consumer Duty principles and standards
• Taking the lead in all matters with regard to the management of employees, ensuring that management discretion is used in a consistent manner and that the area follows the Group’s policies and procedures including the Partnership Agreement to maximise business performance.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent)
• Chartered Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (or equivalent)
• Excellent communicator/articulate
• Self-Motivated
• Strategic thinker
• Industry networker
• Experience of working in a similar role within a large, multi-disciplinary, complex corporate environment
• Experience of in-house corporate health and safety management.
• Experience of working with and presenting to company boards and senior executive teams
• Ability to lead a team and show leadership across the business, with proven experience in successfully influencing others, particularly in encouraging others to change behaviour and processes at a senior/executive level.

Additional Information

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 30 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You'll receive a car allowance of 12% of your annual salary, and you can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave. 

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings. 

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.