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Salary: Competitive + Car Allowance
Location: Hybrid with regular travel into Cannock and London
Fixed Term Contract (9 Months with potential of extension)
When you see the world as we do, you see the chance to help the world take better care of its resources, and help it become a better place for everyone. It’s why we’re looking for someone who’s just as committed as we are, to push for genuine change and bring our ambition of Ecological Transformation to life.
We know that everyone here at Veolia can help us work alongside our communities, look after the environment, and contribute to our inclusive culture.
We are currently looking to add to our high performing HR team on a temporary basis due to the current incumbent taking a secondment.
What we can offer you:
Access to our company pension scheme
Discounts on everything from groceries to well known retailers
Access to a range of resources to support your physical, mental and financial health; so you can lean on us whenever you need to
24 hour access to a virtual GP, 365 days a year, for you and family members in your household
One paid days leave every year to volunteer and support your community
Ongoing training and development opportunities, allowing you to reach your full potential
Stream - Employee financial wellbeing support: early access to your earned pay, savings, budgeting, financial coaching & reward
What you'll be doing:
Work cohesively with Senior Leadership teams and Executive Committee to provide strategic HR solutions, business insights, and medium to long-term support on people-related matters.
Manage and motivate a high-performing team of Employee Relations Specialists and HR Business Partners, ensuring excellent service levels.
Drive full talent mapping and succession planning reviews across corporate business lines, developing and mobilising talent throughout the business unit
Provide expert Employee Relations knowledge and advice, manage complex disciplinary and grievance issues, and serve as escalation point for Trade Union matters.
Lead the annual pay and bonus cycle, objective setting, and personal development plan processes for the Business Unit.
Drive workforce planning activities aligned with Veolia's future vision, identifying skills and knowledge gaps.
Support successful mobilisation and integration of TUPE and potential mergers, cascading HR strategy across the business.
What we're looking for:
Excellent leadership skills with the ability to think strategically and put strategy into action.
Experience operating as a trusted advisor to board-level executives and Senior Leadership Teams.
Expert knowledge of current HR matters including Employment Law, Industrial Relations, Workforce Planning, Succession Planning and complex ER cases
The ability to utilise company analytics to drive company performance.
Demonstrable experience in leading and motivating high-performing teams, improving employee engagement, and creating a high-performing culture.
Level 7 CIPD or equivalent qualification
What’s next?
Apply today, so we can make a difference for generations to come.
We're proud to have been named as one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work for three consecutive years in 2023, 2024 and 2025. This consistent recognition reflects our commitment to our people, demonstrating that Veolia is not just transforming the environment, we're also transforming what it means to have a rewarding, purposeful career.
We're dedicated to supporting you throughout your application journey, offering adjustments where reasonable and appropriate. As a proud Disability Confident Employer, we will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who opt-in to the Disability Confident scheme, and meet the minimum criteria for our roles.
We're also committed to ensuring that all applicants and colleagues receive fair treatment without discrimination on any grounds, aiming to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Skills Required
- Level 7 CIPD or equivalent qualification
- Proven experience as a trusted advisor to board-level executives and senior leadership
- Expert knowledge of Employment Law and Industrial Relations
- Experience managing complex disciplinary, grievance and trade union matters
- Experience leading and motivating high-performing HR teams
- Experience in talent mapping, succession planning and workforce planning
- Experience supporting TUPE transfers and merger integrations
- Ability to use people analytics to drive business performance
What We Do
Veolia UK provides solutions for ecological transformation. We are a company of almost 14,000 employees, although we prefer to think of ourselves as “resourcers”. Every day across the country our “resourcers” design and deploy useful and concrete solutions, which help our customers fight against climate change, prevent pollution of our water and create a circular economy where nothing goes to waste. Every year, we serve around 1.8 million people through our municipal wastewater contracts. We complete over 400 million waste collections across our Local Authority contracts, serving over 3 million residential properties; and we treat over 1.5 million tonnes of commercial and industrial waste from our 85,000 private customers. We also produce over 560 MWe of renewable and low carbon electricity, to power over 1.3 million homes. Veolia UK is an exciting and innovative place to work, but don't just take our word for it - we were named as one of the top 10 'Very Big Organisations' to work for in The Sunday Times' Best Places to Work 2024. We're resourcing the world through our purpose of ecological transformation, and we're doing this by working together to constantly progress. We are reinventing the way things work to reduce our environmental impact and increase efficiency, whether in the reuse of wastewater or the recovery of waste, such as plastics. At the same time, we anticipate the needs of tomorrow with innovative solutions that will decarbonise our energy and heating demands. We do this through the development of microgrids and energy management through our Hubgrade solution, which optimises the management of resources using digital and artificial intelligence. We are driven by optimism and passion, not to see the world as it is, but how it should be; and we are tenacious in our efforts to achieve our goals. These aren't just empty words
