Safety Performance Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre - Field Based and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Corporate Services
Closing date: 05 December 2025
Requisition ID: 400038898
Hybrid – Flexible location - London/Manchester or Coventry and home (mainly home based with occasional travel to the office)
Why join us?
Become part of our Safety & Insurance team at Sainsbury’s, a key division committed to safeguarding colleagues, customers, and contractors. As a Safety Performance Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping safety strategies, monitoring performance, and driving improvements across the organisation. Your work will help create a safe environment while supporting operational excellence and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver meaningful safety outcomes.
What you’ll do
In this role, you will act as the central point for safety performance insight and reporting. You will manage our electronic safety system, ensuring accurate data collection and meaningful measures that reflect risk levels. Key responsibilities include analysing trends, identifying root causes, and providing actionable insights to leadership teams. You will coordinate the Group Safety Committee, produce high-quality reports for senior forums, and benchmark performance externally to maintain industry-leading standards. Working closely with Safety, Insurance, and operational teams, you will ensure clarity and consistency in reporting, explore opportunities for digitisation and automation, and support strategic projects aimed at reducing harm and enhancing safety outcomes.
Who you are
You are highly organised, detail-oriented, and possess strong analytical skills. You can interpret safety performance data, identify trends, and present insights clearly and effectively. Proficiency in MS Office tools is essential, along with a proactive approach to problem-solving and the ability to collaborate across teams. Your commitment to continuous improvement and maintaining the highest safety standards will be key to success in this role.
Essential criteria
- NEBOSH General Certificate or willingness to achieve within 12–18 months.
- Proficiency in MS Office tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI.
- Demonstrable analytical skills with a proven ability to systematically evaluate data, accurately identify trends, and pinpoint root causes to inform targeted improvements.
- Proven experience in preparing and delivering detailed safety performance reports and data-driven presentations for senior leadership forums
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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
