Health, Safety & Sustainability Manager
Health, Safety & Sustainability Manager
Contract: Permanent
Location: Open to candidates based in Scotland
Closing Date: 10th December 2025
About Us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company known for our wonderful collection of iconic brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray, Guinness and more. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. Join us to create a career worth celebrating!
About The Function
Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo's 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It's an intricate and sophisticated operation that's the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.
Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We're committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress' goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we'll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.
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About the Role
We are looking for a passionate and proactive Health, Safety & Sustainability Manager to join our Corporate Real Estate (CRES) team, supporting our iconic Scotland Brand Homes. We welcome candidates based in Scotland and offer flexible working. As long as you're able to travel to any one of our offices or Brand Home locations, we'd love to hear from you.
In this role, you will be the trusted expert providing leadership across health, safety and wellbeing, environmental sustainability, and business continuity. You'll work closely with the Facilities and Maintenance Manager, CRES Leadership, Scotland Brand Homes Leadership Team, Global H&S, Corporate Security, and Scotch Governance to ensure our Brand Homes operate safely, responsibly and in line with Diageo's standards.
You'll play a key role in shaping safe behaviours, embedding best practice, and driving continuous improvement across all sites. This includes ensuring compliance with UK legislation and Diageo's global policies, as well as advising on incident management, risk reduction and long-term sustainability initiatives.
In this role, you will:
- Provide leadership and expert advice on health, safety, wellbeing, environment, sustainability, and business continuity across all Scotland Brand Homes, associated offices, and the Diageo Archive.
- Ensure compliance with UK H&S legislation and Diageo's Global Health, Safety & Wellbeing, Environment, and Business Continuity standards.
- Lead the development and continuous improvement of H&S systems, policies, procedures, and safety culture.
- Mentor and coach Brand Homes teams, embedding best practice and supporting capability building.
- Review, develop and approve risk assessments, method statements, and safe systems of work.
- Investigate serious incidents, near misses and breaches, working closely with internal and external stakeholders.
- Monitor and report on H&S performance to local, regional and global teams.
- Act as Enablon Superuser, supporting data accuracy, system use, and rollout of new modules.
- Support environmental and sustainability initiatives including the Green Tourism programme and Brand Homes Green Teams.
- Maintain and develop Business Continuity and Crisis Management plans, leading planned exercises to ensure resilience.
- Liaise with key external partners including the Health & Safety Executive, Scottish Fire & Rescue Service, SEPA, local authorities, insurers and legal advisors.
If you're energised by variety, collaboration, and crafting real impact, this role offers a perfect platform. It covers some of Scotland's most celebrated visitor experiences.
About You
We are looking for someone who is passionate about health, safety, sustainability, and making a real impact across diverse sites. You thrive in dynamic, multi-site environments and enjoy collaborating with teams and stakeholders to create safe, sustainable, and resilient workplaces.
Ideally, you will have:
- Strong experience handling multi-site Health & Safety across a variety of buildings and asset types, such as Brand Homes, offices, and supply/manufacturing sites, including sectors like private, retail, residential, leisure, commercial, industrial and mixed-use.
- Experience in, or a good understanding of, Diageo, FMCG or equivalent organisations.
- A highly self-motivated and proactive approach, with excellent communication skills to engage, influence and inspire others.
- The ability to align key stakeholders with potentially conflicting priorities and effectively communicate with or challenge senior leadership when needed.
- Experience managing internal and external teams to deliver on commercial, operational, and financial objectives.
- The ability to quickly assimilate new information, adapt and expand areas of expertise.
You are collaborative, solutions-focused, and committed to driving continuous improvement in health, safety, sustainability, and resilience across diverse locations.
Working with Us
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, attitudes, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that this information is collected when application is submitted.
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- FSA
- FSA With Employer Contribution
- HSA
- HSA With Employer Contribution
- Fitness Subsidies
- Pet Insurance
- Mental Health Benefits
Parental Benefits
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
- Adoption Leave
Work Flexibility
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Commuter Benefits Program
- Casual Dress
- Happy Hours
- On-Site Cafeteria
- Holiday Events
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
- Volunteer Time Off
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K)
- Pension
- Stock Purchase Program
- Performance Bonus
- Relocation Assistance
Professional Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
- Access to Online Courses
- Lunch and Learns
- Internship Program
- Leadership Training Program
- Associate or Rotational Training Program
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
- Woman founded/led
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