Head of Health, Safety & Quality

Job description

Help Shape the Future of Health, Safety & Quality at Hollis At Hollis, we believe the best ideas come from people who are trusted to make things happen. We're looking for an experienced Health, Safety & Quality leader to help shape the next chapter of our specialist service. This is an opportunity to join a collaborative, entrepreneurial consultancy where you'll be empowered to influence strategy, develop people, strengthen client relationships and create lasting impact across the built environment. You'll inherit an established service with an active workload, a strong reputation and a talented team. Beyond that, you'll have the freedom to help define what the service becomes in the years ahead. If you've successfully led and grown a Health & Safety, Quality, CDM or related consultancy service within the real estate and built environment sector and are looking for a role where your contribution can genuinely influence business direction, we'd love to hear from you. Why This Role is Different This isn't simply about maintaining an existing service. It's about leading talented people, developing capability, identifying opportunities, enhancing client value and helping a respected consultancy continue to evolve. You'll work alongside senior leaders and multidisciplinary teams across the business, with the autonomy to make decisions, challenge thinking and drive positive change. Most importantly, you'll be joining a business where people are trusted to build their own success rather than follow someone else's blueprint. This is a leadership opportunity for someone who wants ownership, influence and room to grow a specialist service, not just step into a predefined role. What You'll Be Doing As Head of Health, Safety & Quality, you'll provide both strategic and operational leadership across the service. You'll support the team in delivering outstanding advice to clients while helping to shape future growth, develop talent and ensure the service continues to evolve alongside industry and client needs. Leading and developing the Health, Safety & Quality service. Creating a clear vision and direction for future growth. Supporting, mentoring and developing a team of specialists. Building an inclusive, positive and high-performing team culture. Ensuring consistently high standards of technical delivery and client service. Acting as a trusted advisor to clients across the real estate and built environment sectors. Identifying opportunities to enhance and expand service capability. Collaborating with colleagues across multiple disciplines to deliver the best outcomes for clients. Supporting recruitment and succession planning as the service continues to develop. Championing innovation, continuous improvement and knowledge sharing. About You You'll be an experienced leader who enjoys building successful teams, developing people and helping services grow. You'll combine technical credibility with commercial awareness and have a genuine passion for delivering high-quality advice that makes a difference to clients. Significant experience within Health & Safety, Quality, CDM, compliance, risk management or a related consultancy discipline. Extensive experience within the built environment and real estate sector as a H&S/CDM Consultant, Principal Designer or similar A proven track record of successfully managing and growing a consultancy service, business unit or specialist team. Experience leading, mentoring and developing high-performing professionals. Strong client relationship and stakeholder management skills. Experience developing new service offerings or growing existing ones. A collaborative leadership style and a commitment to supporting others to succeed. A desire to contribute beyond day-to-day delivery and help shape business direction. Relevant professional qualifications and memberships appropriate to the discipline. Our preference is to recruit directly wherever possible. Should this role be approved for support from external recruitment partners, we will contact our PSL agencies accordingly. Please note that we do not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies. Effective introduction of a candidate will only be accepted if it has been requested to submit CV’s in relation to a specific vacancy. Any speculative submissions will not incur a fee. For any queries, kindly reach out to the appropriate Talent Acquisition team member. The Company Hollis is a leading independent real estate consultancy. We work with owners, occupiers, developers and funders, across both private and public sectors, to help them get more out of their real estate, at every stage of the property life cycle. We’re a multi-skilled team of surveyors, engineers, ESG consultants, project managers and technical specialists operating across the UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain and The Netherlands. We have a unique way of working and believe that people do things better by doing them together. We aim to do the right thing, be clear, transparent and find some fun along the way. Why join us? We are hardworking, progressive, successful and fun. We’re independently-owned and independently-minded, not afraid to give honest advice or to be ourselves. We aim to achieve the right balance for you, delivering excellent client service whilst supporting you in fulfilling your potential and achieving your goals. We offer a highly attractive salary and a generous benefits package including: Life assurance and private medical insurance Season ticket loan 5% Employer pension contribution 25 days of holiday and an extra day off on your birthday Cycle to work scheme, retail vouchers, gym discounts and more EV car scheme Longevity awards Hollis operates a hybrid-working policy giving employees the opportunity to work between their home and our offices, where their job allows it. In addition, employees are encouraged to request flexible working hours when needed and we work hard to accommodate where we can. We are a sociable bunch and host pay day drinks, quarterly lunches, quiz nights and cultural and sporting activities to socialise and have fun with your colleagues. We also give back and take part in numerous charity events all over the country throughout the year. We're Inclusive Together we welcome, we embrace, and we celebrate our differences. Our aim is to provide a diverse and inclusive workplace which supports and cares for all our employees, including those from underrepresented or non-dominant groups. We’re focused on a culture of inclusion; where all barriers including prejudice are removed from our working environment; and where all our people are empowered to be the best they can be. Don’t meet every single requirement? If you would like the opportunity to join Hollis but your past experience is not an exact match, we encourage you to apply anyway as you could be the right candidate for this role or another role within the company. If you require alternative formats of our documents or need to apply offline, please get in touch with the talent acquisition team: or call us on 020 7622 9555.