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Salary - Up to £58,000 plus Veolia benefits including generous bonus scheme and car/cash allowance
Location - London (Kings Cross) or Staffordshire with hybrid working offered
Are you an experienced pensions professional ready to lead exciting projects and drive continuous improvement for an organisation committed to Ecological Transformation?
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.
What we can offer you:
- Access to our enhanced company pension scheme
- 25 days holiday with opportunity to purchase additional holiday
- Discounts on a range of well known retailers and such things as groceries
- 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
What you’ll be doing:
Are you a pensions expert who thrives on solving complex challenges?
Veolia is seeking a Pensions Technical Lead to become our go-to subject matter expert across our diverse portfolio of pension arrangements. If you're passionate about pensions, love diving into technical complexities, and want to make a real impact, this role is for you.
You will:
Lead the Technical Charge - Serve as our senior technical expert on DB, DC Master Trust, and LGPS schemes and resolve complex member queries, leading investigations into complaints and IDRPs. Interpret scheme rules, trust deeds, and regulatory requirements with precision and keep ahead of legislative changes and ensure compliance across all schemes.
Build Relationships That Matter - work closely with Trustees, actuaries, administrators, and legal advisers; mentor and develop junior team members, sharing your expertise and act as the escalation point for complex queries from across the business.
Drive Strategic Projects - Lead technical workstreams for scheme closures, mergers, and benefit changes; support actuarial valuations and funding strategies. Champion process improvements and automation opportunities, and develop technical procedures, guidance notes, and training materials
What we’re looking for:
Essential:
Deep technical knowledge of pensions governance and regulations, with experience with Trustee and Company technical requirements
Proven project management skills, with intermediate Excel/Google Sheets proficiency
Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities; an agile team player who can manage multiple priorities
Self-motivated with excellent organisational skills
A strategic thinker who leads by example, you will be a tenacious problem-solver with attention to detail
A natural mentor who loves sharing knowledge
Desirable:
Graduate qualification
PMI, RPC, QPA, or PMI Trustee Certificate
Experience with PensionsPal or Workday
TPR Trustee Toolkit completion
If you feel that you'd be a great fit for this role and Veolia then we’d like to find out more about you.
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.
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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.
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