Company Description
Veolia is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specialising in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonisation, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation.
Within this framework, Water Tech brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy.
Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.
Job Description
Global QEHSS Learning Strategy Leader
You can be based in: Europe
Remote or Hybrid position depending on your countries agreed working arrangements
We are seeking a senior leader for our global Quality, Environmental, Health, Safety and Security (QEHSS) learning strategy. This position presents an exceptional opportunity to make a lasting impact on a global scale. This role offers the opportunity to transform our learning ecosystem through innovative digital solutions whilst cultivating a world-class safety culture across our international operations. Our ideal candidate will have substantial experience in organisational development, digital transformation, and strategic leadership - ideally with a background in EHS.
Our EHS programmes focus on:
* Environmental: Protecting the environment, managing environmental impacts, compliance with environmental regulations
* Health: Occupational health, employee wellbeing, workplace health hazards
* Safety: Workplace safety, accident prevention, safety protocols and procedures
You will be responsible for developing and implementing learning strategies and training programmes that ensure employees across Veolia's global operations understand and comply with environmental regulations, maintain workplace safety standards, and protect their health while performing their duties.
The role specifically focuses on the learning and training management aspects, rather than direct operational responsibility for these areas, and course content will be created by your team.
As the Global QEHSS Learning Strategy Leader, you will provide strategic direction for our worldwide learning operations, encompassing team leadership, vendor management, and cross-functional partnerships.
You will drive cultural and organisational change management initiatives to ensure successful adoption of EHS practices across all territories.
Your role will involve leading strategic partnerships with C-suite stakeholders across HR, IT, and QEHSS functions, whilst overseeing the development of our global learning team into a high-performance support organisation.
You will ensure the success of critical learning systems transformation initiatives, including learning management system (LMS) migrations and the transition to advanced reporting environments such as PowerBI. Additionally, you will lead the learning roadmap to achieve EHS learning excellence, expanding our methodologies to incorporate emerging technologies including virtual reality and other innovative solutions that position Veolia at the forefront of safety and environmental learning.
Day-to-Day Duties
* Provide strategic leadership for global QEHSS learning strategy and operations
* Team leadership and management
* Managing vendor and functional partnerships
* Drive cultural and organisational change management initiatives to ensure widespread adoption of EHS practices
* Lead and maintain strategic partnerships with C-suite stakeholders across HR, IT, and QEHSS functions
* Oversee and develop the global learning team, fostering high performance and continuous improvement
* Ensure successful delivery of learning systems transformation initiatives, including LMS migrations and PowerBI reporting environment transitions
* Lead the learning roadmap to accomplish EHS learning excellence across global operations
* Expand learning methodologies to incorporate virtual reality and emerging technologies
* Ensure organisational alignment of all learning processes and key performance indicators
Qualifications
Ideal Skills and Experience
* Substantial QEHSS leadership experience
* Proven track record of implementing learning improvement campaigns related to learning management systems, integrations, or cultural change initiatives
* Executive presence with demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate effectively
* Proven experience managing distributed teams across multiple territories and time zones
* PMP, Learning, or Change Management certification, or equivalent industry experience
* Demonstrated problem-solving, analytical, and technical skills
* Comfortable in a fast- paced, matrixed, global environment
Additional Information
As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.
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