Location
Central London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
The Group EHS & Sustainability Manager will provide strategic and operational leadership for Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) and Sustainability across the Novacyt Group. This role is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining the Company's global EHS and sustainability framework, ensuring compliance with legislation, industry standards, and best practices across all Novacyt sites worldwide. You will lead and coordinate all aspects of occupational health and safety, environmental management, COSHH, fire safety, emergency preparedness, regulatory compliance, energy, carbon, waste, and resource efficiency across laboratory, manufacturing, warehouse, office, and field-based operations.

The role involves establishing and continually improving Group EHS and environmental management systems, policies, minimum standards, processes, training, communications, and performance measures to ensure a safe, healthy, compliant, and environmentally responsible working environment. You will work closely with the Chief Operations Officer, Senior Leadership Team, site management teams, regulatory authorities, and external partners to promote a proactive safety and sustainability culture, support operational excellence, and maintain ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 management systems across the Group.

Key responsibilities include leading incident investigations, managing contractor safety, coordinating risk and COSHH assessments, driving EHS training programmes, maintaining compliance registers, and supporting occupational health and wellbeing initiatives. You will also develop and maintain the Group environmental and sustainability strategy, lead energy and carbon reduction initiatives, coordinate environmental data collection and reporting, and prepare performance reports for senior leadership and the Board.

This role requires functional authority to enforce corrective actions, escalate significant risks, and recommend cessation of unsafe activities. You will coordinate nominated EHS representatives at international sites and commission specialist external advice as needed.

Experience
- Minimum 5-7 years' recent and progressive EHS experience at Manager level or equivalent
- Significant experience within manufacturing, laboratory, IVD, medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or other regulated environments
- Strong working knowledge and practical experience of ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 management systems
- Experience leading EHS investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective/preventive action programmes
- Experience formulating and implementing Group EHS policies, procedures, standards, and safe systems of work
- Knowledge of UK EHS legislation and ability to manage compliance across international locations
- Experience with COSHH, PUWER, DSEAR, LOLER, fire safety, contractor management, permit-to-work systems, and RAMS
- Experience in environmental management, energy efficiency, waste reduction, carbon measurement, and sustainability performance improvement
- Experience managing internal and external audits and driving findings to closure

About you
- Ability to provide authoritative EHS & Sustainability advice and constructive challenge to all levels of management
- Strong interpersonal, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent planning, organisational, and time-management skills with ability to prioritise across multiple locations and workstreams
- Excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills, able to communicate technical and regulatory matters clearly to non-specialists
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages and relevant EHS management systems
- Self-motivated, delivery-focused, with a commitment to continuous improvement
- Assertive but calm demeanour with confidence to challenge unsafe behaviours constructively
- Ability to work independently, exercise sound professional judgement, and escalate risks appropriately
- Ability to work cooperatively with multifunctional and international teams
- Confidential and professional in all matters
- Good attention to detail, governance, and records management

Qualifications
- NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent Level 6 EHS qualification, or demonstrable equivalent professional competence (Required)
- Chartered or working towards Chartered membership of IOSH (Desirable)
- Environmental management qualification and/or IEMA membership (Desirable)
- International or multi-site EHS experience including working with local regulatory requirements (Desirable)
- Sustainability, carbon, energy management and ESOS experience (Desirable)
- COSHH training covering chemical and biological hazards (Desirable)
- Fire Safety Management qualification (Desirable)