About us
London Marathon Events (part of the London Marathon Group) works to inspire, champion and increase activity in all ages, abilities and demographics. We do this through our successful event portfolio (which includes the TCS London Marathon and TCS Mini London Marathon, Brighton Marathon, The Big Half, Vitality London 10,000, Vitality Westminster Mile, Standard Chartered Great City Race and Swim Serpentine), through our extensive outreach programmes working with schools and community groups in London and across the UK and through our network of wholly owned or partially owned companies, such as Maverick, Run 4 Wales, Loch Ness Marathon Ltd, Caledonian Concepts, Athletic Ventures and Friday Night Lights
Our events raise millions for charities every year to improve the lives of individuals and communities and we passionately believe in the power of sport.
Our values are integral to who we are, how we work and what we do:
Caring - We value each other, our customers and the positive impact we make
Curious - We open our minds to new ideas, perspectives and ways of working
Exceptional - We strive to be the best and to redefine the art of the possible
Fun - We create joy, happiness and memories that last a lifetime
Diversity, inclusion and wellbeing are at the heart of everything we do, and we want to ensure they are at the heart of our company. We strongly value diversity within our workforce and recognise that different people bring different perspectives, lived experience, ideas and culture to the company. This difference brings with it great strengths, including diversity of thought. So, if you’re ready to be a force for good, lead change and want to make a difference to society, keep reading.
For successful candidates the offer of employment is subject to satisfactory Disclosure and Baring Service (DBS) clearance.
The Role
Reporting into LME’s Head of Health, Safety & Security, and working alongside colleagues in the Optimisation, and Workspace & Properties team, this role would develop relationships with LME partner and subsidiary stakeholders and work alongside them to develop their health and safety systems and practices and review performance against audit findings to set them up for success. Whilst this role is primarily working in an event safety capacity, you will also assist subsidiary businesses manage health and safety across the corporate/facilities space, as well as warehousing/logistics.
The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and aligning Partner & Subsidiary policies and arrangements to LME’s existing framework. You will work with LME’s Optimisation team in ensuring that existing partner and subsidiary businesses (and those to be acquired during tenure) have sufficient, proportionate and intelligible health and safety arrangements. This will be informed by existing audit findings completed for LME and their partners/subsidiary businesses.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan partner/subsidiary health and safety assurance roadmap alongside their senior leaders
- Report on progress to LME’s Head of Health, Safety & Security, and LME’s Head of Optimisation
- Equip and assist partner & subsidiary management in creating health and safety arrangements
- Cultivate positive culture of health and safety across partner and subsidiary businesses
- Build foundation for sound health and safety understanding amongst partner & subsidiary units
- Assist Partner & Subsidiary businesses in managing health and safety for event delivery (Green & Purple Guides)
- Develop framework for robust event safety planning and delivery; developing agile and proportionate systems to ensure that stakeholders are engaged at all levels through event lifecycle
- Integrate with event delivery personnel to ensure safe delivery of events
- Ensure that repeatable, robust systems are established for event health and safety management, including event safety plan authorship, critique and development
Success Measures / KPIs
- Ensuring a consistent safety culture across a busy team with a wide and differing events portfolio.
- Development, consultation and implementation of health and safety policies/arrangements
- Delivery of key health and safety partner/subsidiary profiles to LME centrally for oversight
Required Skills
Technical
NEBOSH National Diploma or equivalent
RQF Level 4 Diploma – Crowd Safety Management
ISO45001 Lead Auditor qualification
Leadership Competencies
- Adaptable and able to tailor approach, advice and tone appropriate audience
- Confident in analysing ‘work as planned’ vs. ‘work as done’ – and reporting on findings
- Accommodating, coaching mindset – able to build trust by adopting ‘business partner’ approach
- Ability to work at pace, independently and able to integrate health and safety principles into routine event planning and delivery
Required Experience Essential
Events-based production, management, or advisory role
Influencing mid/senior level leadership
Training delivery
Desired
- Experience of training, mentoring and coaching teams to create a culture of safety first
- Previous work at Mass Participation Events
- Health and safety auditing to ISO 45001
