Strategic Group Risk, Compliance & Resilience Director

Holland and Barrett; Nuneaton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Annual bonus up to 33%

Car allowance

Cycle to work

Job summary

Holland & Barrett in Nuneaton is seeking a senior leader to shape risk, assurance and resilience across the Group. Reporting to the CFO, you will integrate Enterprise Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, Business Continuity, Loss Prevention and Health & Safety into a commercially focused function.

You will provide the Executive Leadership Team and Board with clear risk insights, embedding risk thinking into strategy, and leading specialists with a pragmatic, commercial approach.

Qualifications

• Senior leader with significant experience across risk, compliance, audit, assurance, safety, resilience or related discipline.
• Ability to lead specialists, ask the right questions and exercise sound commercial judgement.
• Experience navigating significant incidents, investigations or sensitive matters.

Responsibilities

• Lead and evolve our Group-wide approach to risk, compliance, assurance and resilience.
• Provide clear, independent insight and advice to the Executive Leadership Team, Audit Committee and Board.
• Embed risk thinking into strategic planning and significant business decisions.
• Lead our approach to Health & Safety, business continuity and organisational resilience.
• Develop a modern, intelligence-led approach to Loss Prevention, including shrink, theft, fraud and other preventable loss.
• Oversee a risk-based Internal Audit programme focused on the areas that matter most.
• Connect insight across the function to spot emerging issues earlier and address underlying causes.
• Increase the use of data, technology, automation and AI to strengthen insight and simplify governance.

Skills

Risk management

Compliance

Internal Audit

Business continuity

Resilience

Leadership

Data analytics

AI in governance

Job description

Holland & Barrett in Nuneaton is seeking a senior leader to shape risk, assurance and resilience across the Group. Reporting to the CFO, you will integrate Enterprise Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, Business Continuity, Loss Prevention and Health & Safety into a commercially focused function.

You will provide the Executive Leadership Team and Board with clear risk insights, embedding risk thinking into strategy, and leading specialists with a pragmatic, commercial approach.