Regional Compliance Manager - North West & Cumbria

Regional Compliance Manager - North West and Cumbria

We’ve got a fantastic opportunity for a Regional Compliance Manager, Health and Safety (North West, Manchester and Cumbria) to join our field based retail team. For the right candidate we’re offering a very competitive industry salary.You’ll be travelling between our Retail stores in Manchester, up to Carlisle, across to Southport and everywhere in between. This role will play a pivotal role in upholding safety and legality and supporting our Supermarkets. The successful candidate will be a subject matter expert in Health and Safety, with an understanding of the other disciplines Food Safety, and Trading Standards. Supporting Retail Senior/Regional Management they will relish in a role where they have overall responsibility for Safe and Legal, and will work to ensure the safety of our customers and colleagues as well as legality of our Brand.A typical week in this role looks like…Your home will be your base location but you’ll spend most of your time supporting stores. Mondays are a big report and meeting day where you’ll engage and deliver key updates. You will manage your own diary to ensure business critical activities are managed.Your week will be driven by the business needs and will include visiting 1-2 stores a day supporting improvement plans, attending meetings, building relationships, conducting audits, setting the Safe and Legal culture and upskilling/coaching colleagues and managers. Depending on location these may require you to stay overnight in a hotel.Being one of the Health and Safety experts in the team you’ll support your peers and they will support you in Food Safety and Trading Standards expertise.Responsibilities

Provide a Safe and Legal management service for Retail supermarkets, support in Logistics may be required occasionally.Proactively attend regional and store meetings, build engagement with the senior teams and share data trends, working with the teams to agree suitable solutions.Manage/coordinate activity where serious safety or legality concerns have been identified and work with stores and sites to demonstrably improve standardsWork with stakeholders to manage Enforcement activity, arrange for any necessary support, disseminate information and liaise with Enforcement Officers to reach a satisfactory conclusionProvide a reactive service for serious food safety, trading standards and health and safety issues and incidentsOversee fire safety standards throughout region including undertaking fire and temp FRA risk assessments (training will be provided).Support the central teams by providing timely information and adviceUse a partnership approach in order to coach Regional Managers, Store/Site Managers and colleagues in the required safe and legal standards/ general good practiceBuild strong relationships with the retail management teams in order to be recognised as the main point of contact for all technical queriesBuild and manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Pest Controller) to effectively promote safety and legalityQualifications and Attributes

NEBOSH diploma / Member of relevant professional organisation and undergoing CPDKnowledge of Health and Safety, Food Safety and Trading Standards legislation.Auditing experience in Health and SafetyUnderstanding of HACCPIn-depth knowledge and understanding of catering, retail or manufacturing in Health and safety, knowledge of Food Safety and trading Standards.An appreciation of the microbiological safety and quality aspects of high risk productsA good understanding of health and safety, food safety, trading standards quality / management systemsKnowledge of Retail end to end operationsCustomer focussed with a positive, ‘can do’ attitudeGreat communicator and reporting / data manipulating skillsSeniority level

Mid-Senior levelEmployment type

Full-timeJob function

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