EMEA Life Safety Manager

Job Title: EMEA Life Safety Manager

Location: London

Corporate Title: Vice President or Senior Vice President

Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Location Overview:

Our London office is based just a stone’s throw from the magnificent St. Paul’s Cathedral on bustling King Edward Street. Here you’ll find modern workspaces and a state-of-the-art auditorium space. In addition, we’re proud to host an onsite restaurant that shares our commitment to sustainability by providing delicious seasonal menus which have been created with the planet in mind. Make sure to take time for yourself and head up to our rooftop terrace and take in the spectacular views across London. Finally, your physical wellness is well-catered for with our onsite gym facilities and medical centre.

The Team:

The life safety team ensure the bank meets compliance to all laws, rules, and regulations in safety matters, and that the bank establish adequate control measures against foreseeable safety risks to safeguard all parties.

In addition to the proactive measures the team also establish emergency response plans and investigate accidents and near misses to learn lessons and prevent similar occurrences

The Life safety teams aim is to have a safety programme that supports a great place to work and to additionally establish a culture of care that we can all contribute to and share in the results.

Responsibilities:

• The establishment and ongoing promotion of a ‘fit for purpose’ health and safety service to the business in EMEA.
• Through a process of regular risk assessment and continuous improvement, maintain a safe and secure systems of work for all the bank’s regional operations; and
• That the operations and activities of the bank in the region can be demonstrated to be compliant with all corporate standards and relevant local health and safety legislation and regulation.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of a comprehensive regional corporate safety management system.
• Monitor health and safety legislation and advise on implications, recommending updates to policies and procedures.
• Promote a strong safety culture across employees, vendors, and partners through training, communication, and advisory support.
• Provide expert technical advice on health and safety matters, with a primary focus on people-related risks.
• Conduct and coordinate risk assessments, audits, and monitoring activities to ensure compliance with internal standards and legal requirements.
• Produce inspection reports, recommend corrective actions, and track implementation to resolution.
• Develop and test site emergency action plans, ensuring preparedness for evacuation and other emergency scenarios.
• Investigate workplace incidents, perform root cause and trend analysis, and support targeted mitigation actions.

Technical Skills / Qualifications

• Good knowledge of the risk management principles, tool, and techniques
• Investigative and report writing skills.
• Safety auditing skills preferable.
• Knowledge of building safety strategies including Fire Safety essential.
• Good basic project management skills preferable.
• Level 6 specific qualifications in safety management as laid out by the Regulated qualifications framework (e.g., NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent). Essential
• Membership of Health and Safety professional body and evidence of audited continuing professional development essential; and
• Independent worker with good knowledge of MS Office packages and IT literate Essential.

Experience Required

• Strong experience working at an operational and tactical level in a large multinational organisation.
• Business change management experience in challenging conditions.
• Experience of collating information, canvassing opinions from a diverse group of stakeholders, and presenting findings in a clear and concise documentary manner.
• Solution orientated - experience of dealing with a range of difficult health and safety issues (ideally including dealing with the HSE) and of dealing with related occupational health and HR aspects/implications.
• Experience of developing, monitoring, and maintaining effective H&S management systems, preferably at organisational level.
• Experience of working with other H&S teams and clients to ensure H&S issues are effectively identified and dealt with; and
• Experience of managing both technical and business projects, managing risk, finances, and other resources effectively

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

UK

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
• 20 days of back-up childcare and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc
• Use of a flex fund to use towards benefits
• Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, and virtual GP services
• Access to the Peppy App which provides 1:1 support, consultations and resources relating to men’s health, women’s health, fertility, menopause and pregnancy & parenthood
• Access to a range of gyms, exercise classes and wellbeing Apps through Wellhub, including Headspace and Calm
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local area

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer, and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.