Job Description

Regional Health & Safety (H&S) Manager – Distilling & Maturation

Your Manager: Health & Safety UK & IRE Director

Team: Health & Safety

Location: Miltonduff, Elgin, with travel across other sites, as required

Contract Type: Permanent

Pernod Ricard is a worldwide leader in the spirits and champagne industry, blending traditional craftsmanship, state-of-the-art brand development, and global distribution technologies. Our prestigious portfolio of premium to luxury brands includes Absolut vodka, Ricard pastis, Ballantine’s, Chivas Regal, Royal Salute, and The Glenlivet Scotch whiskies, Jameson Irish whiskey, Martell cognac, Havana Club rum, Beefeater gin, Malibu liqueur, and Mumm and Perrier-Jouët champagnes. Our mission is to ensure the long-term growth of our brands with full respect for people and the environment, while empowering our employees around the world to be ambassadors of our purposeful, inclusive, and responsible culture of authentic conviviality

Chivas Brothers is the Pernod Ricard business dedicated entirely to Scotch whisky and is part of the Gold Brand Unit (Gold BU), our global division for Aged Spirits & Champagne, which brings together the prestigious portfolios of Irish Distillers, Martell Mumm Perrier-Jouët and North American Distillers, alongside Chivas Brothers. Our award-winning portfolio features some of the world’s most revered single malt and blended Scotch whisky brands, including Chivas, Ballantine’s, Royal Salute, The Glenlivet and Aberlour, which are exported from Scotland to over 100 countries worldwide. As the world’s No.2 Scotch whisky producer with a 1,600-strong team across 26 sites, we are committed to upholding the heritage and pursuing the progress of Scotch and ensuring its sustainable future, as well as opening it up to new audiences across the globe.

About the role

We now have an exciting new opportunity within the business for a Regional H&S Manager, based at our site in Elgin. As a key member of our Distillation & Maturation Leadership Team this position will develop and implement a Distillation & Maturation Health and Safety Roadmap to drive improvements in our safety performance and ensure all necessary compliance through the management of a team of Health and Safety professionals and the engagement of all employees across our Distillation & Maturation operations.

What you will do

Strategic Partnering & Engagement:

• Being a trusted partner to site leaders, working shoulder-to-shoulder to build environments where safety is second nature and people feel empowered to speak up, step in, and shape solutions.
• Helping shape a culture where health and safety is seen as a tool for success, not a barrier to progress — enabling good work, rather than getting in the way of it.
• Scanning the horizon — keeping us ahead of regulatory change, emerging risks and evolving best practices — and helping us lead, not just follow.

People Leadership:

• You’ll lead and support the safety advisors in your region — helping them grow in confidence, develop their skills, and stay connected to the purpose behind the work.
• It’s about building a team that feels trusted, supported, and proud of the difference they make.

Cultural Maturity:

• Breathing life into our health and safety framework — building on the solid foundations already in place, and shaping a roadmap that’s simple, human, and focused on what really matters.
• Creating a culture of shared ownership, where safety isn’t something ‘we do to people’, but something that lives in every role, every decision, and every conversation.

Standards & Systems:

• Supporting high-hazard risk and COMAH compliance — not just through documentation, but through real conversations, real checks, and real leadership.
• Oversee the operational development and deployment of our management system and software platforms to ensure an industry leading approach.
• You’ll play a key role in how we manage and work with contractors — setting clear expectations, building strong relationships, and making sure safety isn’t just handed over, but truly shared.

Change Management:

• Driving proactive engagement in site changes and developments, ensuring health and safety thinking is embedded early — from automation to site reshaping.

Training & Development:

• Helping our teams move from lagging indicators to learning insights, using data and real-world experience to guide improvements and build foresight.
• Building capability at every level, coaching others to think critically about risk, care deeply about their teams, and feel proud of the role they play in keeping each other safe.
• Championing learning over blame, leading investigations that focus on understanding, improvement and trust.

Your skills and background

• Bring genuine care for people and a belief that safety is about enabling good work.
• Have Professional Health and Safety qualifications (i.e. NEBOSH) and have experience in developing and implementing health and safety management systems, policies, and procedures.
• Have proven experience in a similar health and safety role with responsibility across multiple sites, working independently to manage competing priorities and build and develop a high performing team.
• Are a natural relationship builder — able to influence and inspire people at all levels through excellent communication, coaching and facilitation skills.
• You don’t just enforce rules; you ask the right questions, listen deeply, and bring people with you.
• Have experience in incident analysis and risk assessment methodologies and are familiar with human factors and Human and Organisational Performance (HOP) principles.

Why join us?

Collective Spirit

You will be part of a connected, international community shaped by iconic brands, a performance mindset, and a proud legacy, where collaboration, fun and ambition coexist.

Craft your path

We empower you to own your career, innovate boldly and grow alongside our business, surrounded by leaders who value curiosity, energy, and impact.

Cultivate the future

You’ll help shape a business with a soul — one that cherishes the land, respects communities, and brings good times from a good place, responsibly and sustainably.

People are at the heart of everything we do at Pernod Ricard and are the foundation of our collective spirit as ‘Créateurs de Convivialité’. We promote inclusion throughout our business and supply chain. In our teams, we proactively foster a diverse work force and an inclusive culture, an environment where we can truly be ourselves. 

We will assess your application for this role based on your skills, experiences, and achievements, not your gender, age, ethnic or educational background or any other such factors. Our recruiting team are more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process, in order for you to participate fully in our recruitment experience.

Our mix of benefits

• Competitive salary, along with performance related bonus
• Defined Contribution Pension
• Private medical insurance, including income protection.
• Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
• 25 days’ annual holiday (increasing with length of service up to 27) plus public holidays
• Pernod Ricard share incentive plan and share ownership plan.
• Life Assurance
• An allowance each year to spend on our brands.
• Our reward & recognition scheme
• Employee discounts from a range of high street retailers.

Learn more about working with Pernod Ricard https://www.pernod-ricard.com/en

Learn more about Chivas Brothers https://www.chivasbrothers.com/

Closing Date for Applications:

27th May 2026

Job Posting End Date:

2026-05-28

Target Hire Date

2026-08-18

Target End Date