Global Safety & Wellbeing Manager

The Role

Location: Bristol / Hybrid

Principle Accountabilities

• Provide practical, field‑focused HSW expertise to ensure consistent application of Group OHS standards across Sales & Marketing, including fleet safety, field‑force activity and customer environments, while influencing senior stakeholders to embed policies, strategies and programmes globally.
• Lead global Health & Wellbeing initiatives, driving the consistent use of leading indicators - such as fleet telematics, field exposure data and behavioural insights - to inform targeted interventions and improve performance.
• Provide leadership and direction to OHS personnel across global Sales functions, managing Group‑wide OHS projects, programmes and standards using advanced project management and strong stakeholder‑influencing skills.
• Lead or review serious incident investigations, particularly fleet collisions and field‑related events, ensuring robust root‑cause analysis, rapid learning deployment and effective prevention strategies, including providing expert advice to Executive Leadership Team (ELT)/Board level.
• Own field and fleet HSW standards, ensuring global legislative and international framework compliance, overseeing corrective and preventative actions, and leading the development of dashboards and BI tools that deliver actionable insights for Sales, Markets and the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).
• Manage OHS KPI analysis for divisional, ELT, Board and external reporting; oversee external suppliers and contractors to ensure cost‑effective delivery; and manage allocated Group OHS budgets responsibly.

Skills and Experience Required

• NEBOSH‑qualified (Certificate minimum) and TechIOSH member, with strong practical grounding in modern health, safety and wellbeing practice across diverse operational environments.
• Demonstrated capability in fleet safety management, including effective use of telematics, driver‑behaviour coaching, journey risk assessment and incident‑reduction strategies.
• Skilled in analysing, interpreting and presenting OHS data—using tools such as Power BI—to deliver clear trends, KPIs and predictive insights for senior leaders, including Board‑level reporting.
• Proven ability to interpret global H&S legislation and international standards, applying pragmatic, market‑appropriate controls for customer‑facing, field‑based and contractor activities.
• Effective business partner and collaborator across cultures and functions, influencing behaviour, embedding controls into daily operations, and delivering global programmes through strong project management.
• Agile, proactive and improvement‑focused, with strong communication skills, technical writing capability, high digital literacy and experience managing third‑party suppliers; comfortable with international travel for operational reviews.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.

Everyone Belongs