Global Health and Safety Lead – Assurance and Systems

Job Introduction

Are you a strategic Health & Safety professional ready to shape global standards across a world-renowned spirits company? William Grant & Sons is seeking a Global Health & Safety Lead – Assurance and Systems to join our team at Bellshill. With over 2,800 employees across more than 50 locations worldwide, including five Distilleries and four Packaging facilities, this role offers the opportunity to influence and elevate H&S governance, systems, and cultural maturity across our global operations. You’ll play a key role in ensuring our people and practices are protected, aligned, and continuously improving wherever we operate.

Main Responsibility

• Champion global consistency in health & safety practices across the business
• Spot emerging risks and trends through proactive data analysis and horizon scanning
• Shape and embed governance models that drive compliance and continuous improvement
• Recommend cutting-edge digital and tech solutions to elevate H&S standards
• Support incident investigations with expert root cause analysis and corrective action planning
• Deliver clear, impactful reporting to senior leaders and governance boards
• Lead engaging global H&S communications tailored to cultural and business needs
• Co-create training programmes that build awareness and capability across diverse teams
• Influence behavioural change through tools that assess and grow H&S cultural maturity
• Identify key safety risks and help design effective controls for long-term resilience
• Promote a culture of inclusion, respect, and personal legacy across all levels of WG&S

Our Ideal Candidate

• Proven experience in developing and implementing global H&S systems and governance frameworks.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and trends to drive strategic decisions
• Experience working with senior leadership and audit functions to influence and embed compliance.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills across diverse cultures and geographies.
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with a passion for continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated commitment to inclusive leadership and cultural transformation.

Are you that ‘Rare Character’ we are looking for?

What we can offer you

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues. 
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.

About William Grant & Sons

A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS

William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.

We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.

At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.

OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY

Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.

INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.