Safety & Licencing Agent
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Manchester Store Support Centre and Home, Manchester, M4 3AL
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Corporate Services
Closing date: 27 April 2026
Requisition ID: 400057872
Hybrid – Manchester Store Support Centre (3 days per week) and Home
About the team
You’ll join the Corporate Services function within Group Safety & Insurance, a team that plays a vital role in keeping Sainsbury’s operating safely, responsibly and within the law. The team works across a diverse estate including stores, petrol filling stations, depots, local fulfilment centres, store support centres and specialist sites. By working closely with colleagues across the business and external regulators, the team helps protect our people, customers and reputation every day.
More about the role
As a Safety & Licensing Agent, you’ll support the business by managing safety incidents and licensing activities, ensuring legal and regulatory requirements are met accurately and on time. You’ll be responsible for handling digital and telephone incident reports, reviewing submissions for accuracy and ensuring reportable incidents are managed in line with legal obligations, including RIDDOR reporting.
Day to day, you’ll work across both safety and licensing workstreams, managing enforcement contacts, regulatory queries and licence applications and renewals. This includes supporting activities such as personal licence applications, licensing variations, permits and registrations, while working closely with the Safety & Licensing Manager and wider teams to progress incidents and queries to resolution.
More about
You will be comfortable managing a varied workload across safety and licensing activities. You’re organised and proactive, with the ability to plan ahead, manage priorities effectively and maintain accurate records across multiple systems.
You work well both independently and as part of a team, building positive relationships across functions and with external contacts. You approach sensitive situations with care and empathy, remain calm under pressure and are committed to supporting safe, compliant ways of working across the business.
Essential criteria
• Proven ability to manage and prioritise a varied workload while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
• Evidence of handling sensitive information or incidents with professionalism, care and empathy.
• Demonstratable experience working collaboratively with colleagues across teams and functions to include internal and external stakeholders.
• Proven capability in using systems or digital tools to record, audit and manage safety or compliance information.
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: Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.
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 5% 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, 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.
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.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
