Job Description

Job Category: Corporate Services(including Legal, Safety and Governance)
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Mainly home based with occasional nationwide travel. Ability to work from nearest Store Support Centre (London, Coventry, Manchester or Scotland).
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as the Facilities Management (FM) Safety Manager means being part of a forward-thinking and inclusive team dedicated to ensuring the safety and well-being of customers, colleagues, contractors, and visitors across our diverse sites. You will have the opportunity to leverage your expertise in safety management to drive impactful change, reduce risks, and uphold legal compliance standards while contributing to the continuous improvement of our safety processes. With the support of a collaborative environment, access to ongoing training and development, and the chance to make a real difference in creating a safe and secure environment, this role offers a fulfilling and rewarding career path within a reputable and customer-focused organisation.
What you'll do
At Sainsburys were exploring how we can react more efficiently to building and FM defects to prevent harm to our customers and colleagues. As the FM Safety manager, you will be responsible for creating an end-to-end FM risk-based workstack which prioritises how our contractors respond to varying levels of risk and defects across our estate. This will require you to use data and risk analysis to create a risk profiled workstack with reasonable and suitable response times.
As the FM Safety Manager within Sainsbury's Group Safety & Insurance division, you will be responsible for ensuring effective management and support of all facilities management work across Sainsbury's sites, including depots, local fulfilment centres, store support centres, and product development studios. Your role will involve providing expertise and advice on FM safety management, covering both soft and hard services, to mitigate safety risks and ensure legal compliance. You will work closely with FM teams and contractors, conduct and review detailed accident investigations, and implement safety improvements to minimise harm to customers, colleagues, contractors, and visitors. Your role will also focus on supporting the corporate FM safety processes and compliance to meet legal requirements and promote a safe environment for all stakeholders.
Who you are
As an FM Safety Manager, you are an experienced health & safety professional with a proven track record in managing facilities management safety across a diverse range of sites. Ideally with NEBOSH Cert or equivalent qualifications, your expertise in data analysis, creating risk profiles, risk management, and compliance ensures the effective identification and rectification of safety defects to prevent harm and maintain legal compliance. With strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally, you provide guidance and support to FM teams, senior leadership and contractors, ultimately driving a culture of safety and minimising risks to customers, colleagues, contractors, and visitors. As the role is mainly home based, you must be comfortable to work remotely and without regular face to face supervision.
Essential skills

• Risk Assessment and Management: Proven experience of identifying potential hazards, assessing risks, and implementing effective safety measures or programme of work to mitigate those risks.
• Regulatory Compliance: Demonstrable understanding of safety regulations and standards
• Communication Skills: Strong verbal, written and presentation communication skills are necessary to effectively convey safety policies and procedures to all levels of the business.
• Problem-Solving Abilities: Proven ability to effectively address safety issues and incidents, and to develop proactive solutions to prevent future occurrences.
• Attention to Detail: Ability to identify potential safety hazards and to ensure that all safety protocols are meticulously followed.

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Responsibilities:
We'd all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That's waiting for you at Sainsbury's. Corporate Services is made up of specialist teams, namely Legal, Information Security, Safety & Insurance, and Company Secretary & Share Management. While they're distinct areas, we all deal with risk. So that covers how we identify risk to the business, people, stakeholders and shareholders, how we assess and evaluate the impact of risks, and how do we mitigate them or even accept them. What makes us different is that we have real exposure to other specialisms; we don't operate in a silo and can move laterally into other opportunities. We also have an amazing leadership team - which is 50% women - and a genuine passion for Sainsbury's as a brand and as a place to be. Which makes this a place where you should be.
Qualifications:
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).
About Us: Sainsbury's company vision
Our vision is to be the most trusted retailer, where people love to work and shop. That means harnessing the talent, creativity and diversity of our colleagues to ensure that customers receive great service every time they shop with us.
If you would like to hear more about our vision and values, be sure to visit our corporate page.
We invest in training, development and multiple initiatives to ensure our teams feel enabled to offer the best shopping experience to our customers and that Sainsbury's is truly a 'Great Place to Work'.