Head of Health & Wellbeing

Allen & York Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Allen & York are partnering with a leading UK transport and logistics organisation to recruit a Head of Occupational Health and Wellbeing. This newly elevated, strategic role sits in the people leadership team and reports to the Group HR Director.

You will shape and lead a group-wide health and wellbeing agenda across a large, diverse workforce. You will lead internal expertise and external partners to deliver an integrated OH service, strategy and programme, owning the budget and driving

Qualifications

• Proven senior leadership in occupational health and wellbeing.
• Experience designing and delivering group-wide health and wellbeing strategies.
• Ability to manage internal teams and external providers to SLA targets.
• Strong data analytics and reporting capabilities for health metrics.
• Experience with statutory health surveillance, screening and testing.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead a group-wide health and wellbeing strategy with measurable success.
• Lead the in-house OH team and manage external providers against SLAs.
• Ensure statutory obligations for health surveillance and testing are met across sites.
• Use data to identify health trends, reduce absence, and target impactful activity.
• Drive digital transformation of the service from systems analytics to audit readiness.

Skills

Occupational health leadership

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

Budget management

Wellbeing strategy

Team leadership

Commercial mindset

Digital transformation

Health surveillance

Job description

Allen & York are working with a leading UK transport and logistics organisation. Its operations keep goods moving across the UK with health, safety and wellbeing being a genuine board-level priority, and the group is now appointing a Head of Occupational Health and Wellbeing to shape and lead this agenda across the whole organisation.

This is a newly elevated, strategic role at the heart of the people leadership team, reporting to the Group HR Director. You will have the scope to build an integrated health and wellbeing offer that makes a measurable difference to a large, diverse and largely operational workforce. Your work will feed directly into the group's safety performance, people strategy and ability to attract and retain talent.

You will bring together internal expertise and external partners to deliver a joined-up health and wellbeing service, strategy and programme. Your remit includes:

• Developing and leading a group-wide health and wellbeing strategy, with clear measures of success.
• Leading the in-house occupational health team and managing external providers against contractual SLAs and performance targets.
• Making sure statutory obligations for health surveillance, screening and testing are met consistently across all sites.
• Using data and insight to identify work-related health trends, reduce the impact of absence and target activity where it adds most value.
• Driving digital transformation of the service, from systems and analytics to audit readiness.
• Reporting on health and wellbeing performance to leaders, the executive team and the shareholder board.
• Building engagement through a wellbeing steering committee, wellbeing champions and year-round health promotion.
• Working closely with EHS, operational leadership, L&D and legal colleagues to embed a shared culture of responsibility for health, safety and wellbeing.
• Owning the group occupational health budget.

You are an accomplished senior leader in Occupational health and wellbeing, ideally from an operational, health-focused or people-centred environment. You pair a deep understanding of occupational health, mental health and wellbeing best practice with a commercial mindset and a talent for influencing at every level.

You are likely to bring:

• Proven senior leadership experience with real expertise in health and wellbeing.
• A track record of designing and implementing innovative wellbeing strategies that deliver measurable results.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the credibility to work alongside executives, operational leaders and external partners.
• Commercial awareness and sound strategic judgement, with a practical, solution-focused approach.
• Experience leading and developing teams, and a commitment to inclusive leadership.

This is a chance to take ownership of a high-profile agenda in an organisation that is investing in its people and its future. You will have the backing of senior leadership, a strong in-house team and the freedom to shape the service.

Our client is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds and experience.

About us

Allen & York have been matching purposeful people with purpose-led organisations for 30 years. We partner with our clients and candidates on roles that build an understanding of climate change, promote sustainability and create inclusive and responsible organisations, working towards a sustainable world for us all.

Committed to inclusiveness in the workplace, we aim to increase diversity across all areas and therefore welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, or whether or not they have a disability.

Let us help build a better world, together.