Regulated Safety Risk Manager
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Occupation TypeHealth and safety managers and officers
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
Sponsorship EligibilityIneligible for Sponsorship
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Description
Looking for a challenge in one of the world’s largest airfreight logistics organisations?
At IAG Cargo we are in the business of moving things. From antibiotics to rhinoceros, gold bullion to avocados and everything in between. Whatever people need, wherever they are. In an era of digital screens and closed borders, we open the skies and fly the world to bring people the things they really need.
We are the logistics and cargo brand of International Airlines Group (Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Level and Vueling). At IAG Cargo, we believe in keeping the world’s economies turning, and do everything with determined attitudes, curious minds, collaborative actions and heartfelt pride. Join us at our globally recognised logistics business, where we are building a great place to work for customers and colleagues alike.
About The Role
Working across IAG Cargo’s global network of insourced and outsourced operations, this role is responsible for shaping and leading the strategic direction of safety and risk management, ensuring the effective identification, prioritisation, and mitigation of safety risks in line with regulatory requirements and business objectives.
The role will drive tangible business value through safety, embedding a proactive, data-led approach that improves operational performance, reduces risk exposure, and enhances regulatory assurance across the network.
You will operate as a strategic partner to operational and senior leadership, translating safety data into meaningful insights, influencing decision-making, and ensuring that safety management systems deliver measurable improvements in performance, compliance, and resilience.
What You’ll Do
Strategic Safety & Risk Leadership
At IAG Cargo we are in the business of moving things. From antibiotics to rhinoceros, gold bullion to avocados and everything in between. Whatever people need, wherever they are. In an era of digital screens and closed borders, we open the skies and fly the world to bring people the things they really need.
We are the logistics and cargo brand of International Airlines Group (Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Level and Vueling). At IAG Cargo, we believe in keeping the world’s economies turning, and do everything with determined attitudes, curious minds, collaborative actions and heartfelt pride. Join us at our globally recognised logistics business, where we are building a great place to work for customers and colleagues alike.
About The Role
Working across IAG Cargo’s global network of insourced and outsourced operations, this role is responsible for shaping and leading the strategic direction of safety and risk management, ensuring the effective identification, prioritisation, and mitigation of safety risks in line with regulatory requirements and business objectives.
The role will drive tangible business value through safety, embedding a proactive, data-led approach that improves operational performance, reduces risk exposure, and enhances regulatory assurance across the network.
You will operate as a strategic partner to operational and senior leadership, translating safety data into meaningful insights, influencing decision-making, and ensuring that safety management systems deliver measurable improvements in performance, compliance, and resilience.
What You’ll Do
Strategic Safety & Risk Leadership
- Define and deliver a risk-based safety strategy aligned to IAG Cargo’s operational and transformation priorities.
- Drive data-led identification of systemic risks, enabling prioritisation of resources and targeted interventions across the network.
- Lead the development and delivery of a global safety improvement roadmap with clear, measurable outcomes.
- Use trend analysis and performance data to identify root causes and drive sustainable improvement initiatives.
- Ensure robust escalation and governance of significant safety risks, maintaining visibility at senior leadership level.
- Champion a ‘Just Culture’ environment to improve reporting, transparency, and learning across the organisation.
- Provide end-to-end oversight of the Safety Management System (SMS), ensuring it remains effective, scalable, and aligned to regulatory expectations.
- Strengthen risk-based assurance, ensuring audit insights, investigations, and performance data are integrated to drive prioritised action.
- Deliver executive-level reporting and dashboards, enhancing transparency and enabling informed decision-making across the Safety Group and leadership forums.
- Act as a central point of accountability for safety standards, ensuring consistency, clarity, and applicability across the global operation.
- Partner with operational, commercial, and functional teams to embed safety into business decision-making, including infrastructure, transformation, and change initiatives.
What you’ll bring to IAG Cargo:
- Demonstrable experience in Safety Management Systems within a complex, regulated environment.
- Strong understanding of air cargo or logistics operations and associated risk profile.
- Experience driving performance improvement through data, insight, and governance.
- Experience in dangerous goods operations, compliance, or oversight (preferred).
- Strong strategic and analytical capability, with the ability to convert complex data into actionable business insight.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive cross-functional change.
- Experience embedding risk-based frameworks and governance models.
- Strong investigative mindset with the ability to identify systemic issues and deliver sustainable solutions.
Wherever you work within IAG Cargo, you’ll play a part in helping us deliver what the world needs and join a diverse and inclusive business that’s making a difference.
As well as a competitive salary, bonus, we offer a range of benefits to support our colleagues, which include:
- A hybrid environment with 3 days a week in the office and two from home.
- From the day you join us, you’ll get access to brilliant staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways and group airlines. You’ll also receive up to 30 discounted ‘Hotline’ airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family.
- Flexible bank holiday policy- Individuals not on shift have the flexibility to swap the statutory public holidays, with the days you choose to take off instead.
Our recruitment procedures positively support our diversity and inclusion agenda.
All candidates are considered strictly on their merits in relation to the criteria for the role, treated fairly and consistently, and have their individual needs responded to throughout the process.
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