Senior SHE Business Partner

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Key Information

Job title: Senior SHE Business Patner 

Salary: Circa £77,250                                    

Grade: Band 4 

Contract type: Permanent                              

Team: Safety & Environment 

Location: London (Hybrid)

Application closing date: 04/08/2025

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4 week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements. 

About us
Transport for London play a key role in shaping what life in London is like. Our transport infrastructure and public transport network is admired around the world. We are changing London for the future – making it one of the best cities to live, work and visit.

Our purpose is to move London forward safely, inclusively and sustainably – this is why we exist. Our vision is to be the strong, green heartbeat for London and this role is integral to achievement of these aims. Our passion to create a fairer, greener, healthier and prosperous city is ambitious. By 2041, we aim to make 80 per cent of all journeys by foot, cycle, or public transport. To do this we need to prioritise health and the quality of people’s experience in everything we do.

These exciting programmes are delivered through our healthy streets and healthy people strategy, making walking for travel at its heart, improving air quality, enabling safe and inclusive travel and fewer car trips.

Transport for London (TfL) plays a significant role in London and our Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) team inspires and influences our leadership teams, colleagues, customers and other stakeholders to deliver safer, healthier and more efficient services for the millions of people who use them every day. We are looking for people with a passion for making London’s transport network safer, healthier, and greener.

Overview of project/role

We are looking for people with a passion for making London’s transport network safer, healthier, and greener.

Transport for London (TfL) plays a significant role in London and our Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) team inspires and influences our leadership teams, colleagues, customers and other stakeholders to deliver safer, healthier and more efficient services for the millions of people who use them every day.

Our vision is “Everyone home safe and healthy every day”, and we’re committed to meeting these expectations.

We now have three exciting opportunities to join our active and influential Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) team as a Senior Business Partner: Health, Safety & Environment.

We are looking for experienced SHE professionals with excellent communication, influencing and problem-solving skills. With a commitment to excellence in health, safety and environmental performance, you will be able to demonstrate experience of leading the development of high-quality support to delivery teams and inspiring commitment and action from others to deliver improvements in SHE performance. You will have a track record of driving SHE improvements through a proactive approach involving culture change.

As well as being part of the TfL SHE team, you will work as an integral part of the relevant TfL Delivery leadership team, providing the necessary leadership, support and challenge to ensure that we achieve our SHE goals.

We are recruiting for three Senior Manager roles supporting different delivery teams: one role is supporting Buses; one supporting London Underground Customer Operations and the other supporting London Underground’s maintenance teams.

Key Accountabilities

Your work will include, but not be limited to:

• Being an active member of the relevant TfL Delivery leadership team – presenting the full picture of SHE performance, risks, and initiatives across their business area
• Leading a team of SHE professionals who provide SHE direction, technical advice, best practice sharing and support in incident investigation and learning
• Understanding TfL-wide and business specific SHE risks, data and strategic direction. Ensuring your teams understand, and their efforts are directed at, supporting the business in areas of highest risk and are actively engaged in shaping the SHE strategy
• Reflecting business needs and requirements back into the TfL SHE team to ensure that these are embedded in TfL’s SHE vision and strategy
• Managing second line assurance for your business area, in line with TfL’s SHE assurance framework.
• Coaching the business to understand their regulatory requirements and challenging them to improve performance
• Being a role model for diversity and inclusion, and influencing to positively affect the whole directorate and beyond
• Acting as a core part of the leadership team for the SHE Directorate, including managing overall SHE budget, leading on change and deputising for the Head of Business Partnering as required

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Skills

• Leadership skills to inspire, manage, motivate and develop your team and colleagues across TfL (Essential)
• Well-developed collaboration, relationship and stakeholder management skills with proven ability to communicate with, influence and build relationships with key stakeholders including working across organisational boundaries (Essential)
• Vision, commitment and enthusiasm for change, with the tenacity and resilience to overcome challenges, demonstrating proven ability to take complex and strategic improvement initiatives from feasibility through to successful delivery (Essential)
• Strong skills in managing SHE risk and assurance programmes (Essential)
• Strong ability to understand performance data and trends and explain the underlying meaning to the business (Essential)
• Strong ability to initiate and effect business and behaviour change design (Highly desirable)
• Ability to work in an operational environment to very tight time constraints and high quality (Essential)
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, with a proven ability to write strategic and analytical reports (Essential)

Knowledge

• Understanding of the Mayor's Transport Strategy and TfL's business priorities (Essential)
• Knowledge of external SHE regulatory requirements which apply to the applicable transport modes (Essential)
• Strong understanding of engineering, operational and business management requirements in a safety critical environment (Highly desirable)
• Comprehensive understanding of the principles and application of SHE Management Systems (Essential)
• Strong knowledge of SHE techniques (for example investigation, risk assessment and assurance) (Essential)
• Good understanding of how culture change can drive changes in SHE performance (Highly desirable)
• NEBOSH diploma (or equivalent experience) (Highly desirable)
• Membership of relevant professional body e.g., IOSH, IEMA, CIBSE (Desirable)

Experience

• Experience in a management role, leading, developing and motivating staff while improving performance (Highly desirable)
• Experience or leading in SHE-conscious environment (Highly desirable)
• Experience of influencing stakeholders to deliver business improvements which have lasting results (Essential)
• Demonstrated ability to understand a very broad range of strategic management issues and respond in an agile way (Essential)
• Experience in communicating complex information in an easily digestible manner to non-technical audiences in a way which drives effective decision-making (Essential)
• Experience in operating at a senior level and influencing director discussions around business vision and direction (Essential)

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

Application Process 

• Please apply using your CV and a one-page covering letter. Word format preferred and do not include any photographs or images

Benefits  

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow.  Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:
 
Final salary pension scheme 
Free travel for you on the TfL network 
Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays 
TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional) 
Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
Retail, health, leisure and travel offers 
Discounted Eurostar travel
 

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.