Regional Health & Safety Manager

Morrisons; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail supermarket in Bradford is seeking a Regional Health & Safety Manager to ensure safety and compliance across their stores in North West England. The role involves coaching staff, conducting audits, and maintaining a strong safety culture. Ideal candidates will have a NEBOSH diploma, auditing experience, and a strong understanding of health & safety legislation. The position offers a variety of benefits including discounts, holiday entitlements, and pension contributions.

Benefits

15% colleague discount

Generous holiday entitlement

Company pension contributions

Perks with over 850 retailers

Qualifications

• NEBOSH diploma and practicing CPD required.
• Postgraduate experience and auditing experience necessary.
• In-depth knowledge of catering and retail for food safety.

Responsibilities

• Provide Safe & Legal management service for supermarkets.
• Coach regional managers and build strong relationships.
• Travel between stores to conduct audits and ensure compliance.

Skills

Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation

Excellent communication skills

Auditing experience

Customer-focused mindset

Education

NEBOSH diploma

Postgraduate experience

Job description

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Regional Health & Safety Manager (North West, Manchester & Cumbria) to join our field‑based retail team. The successful candidate will be a subject‑matter expert in Health & Safety, with an understanding of Food Safety and Trading Standards, and will support our supermarket stores across Manchester, Carlisle, Southport and surrounding areas. They will be responsible for maintaining safety and legality, coaching colleagues, and contributing to a safe customer and colleague environment.

Role Responsibilities

• Provide a Safe & Legal management service for retail supermarkets; support in logistics may be required occasionally.
• Proactively attend regional and store meetings, build engagement with senior teams, share data trends, and agree suitable solutions.
• Manage and coordinate activity where serious safety or legality concerns have been identified and work with stores and sites to demonstrably improve standards.
• Work with stakeholders to manage enforcement activity, arrange necessary support, disseminate information, and liaise with enforcement officers to reach a satisfactory conclusion.
• Provide a reactive service for serious food safety, trading standards and health & safety issues and incidents.
• Oversee fire safety standards throughout the region, including undertaking fire and temporary FRA risk assessments (training will be provided).
• Support central teams by providing timely information and advice.
• Use a partnership approach to coach regional managers, store/site managers, and colleagues in safe and legal standards and general good practice.
• Build strong relationships with retail management to act as the main point of contact for all technical queries.
• Build and manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders (e.g., pest controller) to promote safety and legality.
• Travel between stores, visiting 1–2 stores a day, attending meetings, building relationships, conducting audits, setting the Safe & Legal culture, and upskilling/coaching colleagues and managers. Overnight stays in a hotel may be required depending on location.

Qualifications & Experience

• NEBOSH diploma, Member of a relevant professional organisation, and ongoing CPD.
• Postgraduate experience.
• Knowledge of Health & Safety, Food Safety & Trading Standards legislation.
• Auditing experience in Health & Safety.
• Understanding of HACCP.
• In‑depth knowledge of catering, retail or manufacturing in Health & Safety, and knowledge of Food Safety & Trading Standards.
• Appreciation of the microbiological safety and quality aspects of high‑risk products.
• Strong understanding of health & safety, food safety, trading standards quality/management systems.
• Knowledge of retail end‑to‑end operations.
• Customer‑focused with a positive, ‘can‑do’ attitude.
• Excellent communication and reporting/data manipulation skills.

Benefits

• 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family member (subject to fair usage).
• Generous holiday entitlement.
• Company pension contributions.
• Perks with over 850 retailers.
• Family‑friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave, neonatal and fertility leave.

We’ve built an incredibly diverse business and are committed to fully representing the communities we serve. We encourage listening, learning and connecting across different views, perspectives and beliefs.

Our modern head office on the edge of Bradford hosts our support teams in tech, marketing, finance, HR, trading and supply chain. The office offers comfortable breakout areas, a coffee shop, a newsagents, a subsidised restaurant and free parking with excellent commuting links to Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales.