Health and Safety Governance Manager (12 month FTC)

Health and Safety Governance Manager (12month FTC)

Location: London / Hybrid
Salary: £65,000 - £70,000 + strong benefits

We're supporting a major UK infrastructure organisation with the appointment of a Health & Safety Governance Manager to provide strategic oversight of H&S governance across the business.

This is a senior-level position working closely with Executive and Board-level stakeholders, helping ensure the organisation's health & safety strategy, governance framework and key risks are effectively communicated, monitored and managed.

The role would suit an experienced H&S professional who has operated within a large, complex or regulated organisation and is comfortable working at senior leadership level.

Key Responsibilities of the The Health and Safety Governance Manager:

• Lead and continually improve the organisation's Health & Safety governance framework, ensuring alignment from Board and Executive level through to operational committees.
• Work closely with senior H&S leadership, providing strategic advice around key risks, priorities, initiatives and decisions.
• Coordinate governance agendas, ensuring emerging risks and key H&S priorities receive appropriate senior-level attention.
• Oversee H&S performance reporting, turning data and trends into clear, actionable insight for Executive and Board audiences.
• Monitor the delivery of strategic H&S initiatives, ensuring objectives and milestones remain on track and risks are appropriately escalated.
• Build strong relationships across senior leadership and wider business functions to improve governance, accountability and H&S performance.

The Health and Safety Governance Manager will ideally have

• Significant experience within Health & Safety governance, assurance, risk or strategic H&S leadership.
• Experience working within a large, complex and preferably regulated or high-risk organisation.
• Strong exposure to senior leadership, Executive or Board-level stakeholders.
• Experience developing or improving H&S governance frameworks, policies and reporting structures.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret H&S performance information and communicate key risks clearly.
• The credibility and communication skills to influence senior stakeholders and challenge effectively where required.