Digital EHS Consultant (H/F)

VP&WHITE; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000

Job description

Here at VPWhite we drive improvement for our clients, as well as helping them strive to evolve to exceed future goals. We do this through believing in excellence, sharing a desire for continuous improvement and innovating the services and solutions of tomorrow; with the aim of improving businesses efficiencies and bottom-line. We do all this by building a trusted partnership with our clients, where we are committed to fostering a transparent and close working relationship. We share a desire to use all our skills and talents to help others to succeed. We believe in benevolence.

We specialise in optimising our customers operational performance by advising and digitising their Environmental Social and Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Health & Safety, Risk Management, Real Estate Management and Legal processes. We do this by developing, advising and implementing web solutions for our customers, which we have been doing since 2006. We have offices in Paris (France), Lyon (France), London (UK), Munich (Germany) and Chicago (USA) and have completed over 400 projects in more than 10 countries across the world since our inception and are now embarking on an exciting phase of rapid Global expansion.

With the opening of the office located in central London – to support our EMEA customers and to fuel our growth – we are currently looking for an ambitious open-minded Digital EHS Consultant to work with our current and future customers, to drive value and build long-term partnerships between them and VPWhite.

Key Responsibilities

We are seeking a driven and motivated Digital EHS Consultant to join our dynamic team in the London office. As a Digital EHS Consultant you will be an Environmental, Health and Safety professional and be responsible for supporting our clients’ projects by providing guidance, experience and sometimes leading key strategic initiatives.

The role poses a unique opportunity to influence the build of this function outside of France for supporting our global clients. Being part of the EHS team, you will functionally report into our EHS Manager located in Lyon, France.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Implementation of EHS management application solutions (incident management, risk management, chemical management, audits, reporting, compliance, etc.)
• Leading the design of these solutions with the rest of the project team to adapt them to client needs (facilitation of functional workshops, decision-making assistance, advice in the possibilities of configuring the application, etc.)
• Supporting sales staff during pre-sales by presenting solutions, preparing costings and schedules adapted to the scope of the project
• Assisting in the digital transformation change management process with our clients to enable them to roll out software successfully
• Conducting training sessions with our customers
• Driving new business through understanding market needs, and outreaching to specific key accounts to drive value to their EHS programmes.

There will also be internal strategic and methodological development of the EHS practices here at VPWhite, where you will be responsible to contribute to:

• Structuring existing offers in collaboration with the marketing team
• Direction of the main software requirements for EHSQ (ISO standards, regulatory audits, etc.)
• Reflection on the challenges of tomorrow and their operational variations, to constantly drive continual improvement.

You will be expected to travel both within the UK as well as abroad and be based in our London office.

Personal Attributes

We are looking for someone who is individually and collectively passionate, innovative, always in search of excellence but fundamentally dedicated to helping our partners, customers and other VPs to drive improvement.

The successful candidate should have the following attributes:

• Be an effective communicator with good presentation skills and the ability to build rapport with stakeholders across all levels of seniority
• Driven by KPIs (Key Performance Indicator) and willing to tackle challenges head on in pursuit of delivering individual and company growth
• A responsive and proactive individual looking to drive innovation in their field of expertise and the wider business
• Strong attention to detail and a methodical and organised individual
• Dynamic, rigorous, and organised; likes to be challenged
• Good interpersonal skills; enjoys working in a team and appreciates customer relations
• Curious and flexible to familiarise with new tools
• Fluent in written and spoken English with additional languages a bonus, specifically French and/or German

Skills and Experience

As a Digital EHS Consultant, you will be working directly with our clients and providing them with key strategic information, meaning experience in EHS or a similar field is required. A list of requirements can be found below:

• 5+ years’ experience in EHS and/or Risk Management (GradIOSH preferred)
• Experience with technical consulting and working with clients
• Knowledge and experience in implementing any type of standards (e.g. ISO14001 / ISO45001) is beneficial
• Experience working with digital EHS solutions
• Good knowledge of EHS issues and understanding how companies can respond to these through EHS projects and strategies.

Your curiosity and open-mindedness allow you to work on a wide variety of business and/or technical challenges.

You are a good communicator and enjoy working in a team. Furthermore, if you are autonomous, rigorous, organised, and curious, then our paths are made to cross!

Why should you join us?

If you are passionate about working for a high-growth company, are resilient when faced with challenges, intellectually curious, excited about technology and ambitious, this role is for you.

We believe in seeking satisfaction for our customers and for each other through excellence, innovation, and trust. Seeking excellence in sharing a desire for continuous improvement, seeking innovation by creating the solutions of tomorrow and seeking trust by being a trusted partner where we are committed to fostering transparent and close working relationships to grow and evolve.

VPWhite believes that everyone is an individual and understands the challenging environment that we live in, we therefore want to ensure that the talent we recruit are looked after. On top of an annual salary, we also offer some key benefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Income protection and life cover

Working at VPWhite means participating in the growth of a company in full expansion. It means growing and evolving in an international work environment, where cohesion and good humour are in our DNA!

VPWhite is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that great minds think differently. We value diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, and interests, and we recognise diversity as an important source of intellectual thought, varied perspective, and innovation. Employment decisions are made without regard to age, gender identity, race, religion, disability status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.