Enabling our people to thrive
"We’ve made important progress this year to strengthen employee engagement, support our leaders to facilitate change, and continued to embed a refreshed HR operating model to ensure we’re building a business that enables our colleagues to bring to life our forever caring promise.”
Emma Rose, EVP, Chief People Officer
Our approach
Aligned to our core values of delivering results and improving care for customers and patients, we recognise the importance of building an inclusive company and high performing teams. In doing so, we will advance our vision of pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch.
Rooted in our vision, our people mission is to build a purpose led, performance driven organisation where our people can thrive and make a real difference. To do this we focus on:
- Develop purpose-led, performance driven leaders
- Build a thriving culture through high performing teams
- Optimise organisational effectiveness
- Focus on talent development to respond to our biggest strategic challenges
- Deliver our capability building agenda to support colleagues to deliver every day
Progress
In 2024, we continued to build momentum through:
- Sustained operations lost time injury rate and operations hazard observation rate
- Strengthened senior management
- Limited voluntary turnover
Inclusion and belonging
At Convatec, our colleagues represent multiple nationalities, as well as many cultures, religions, races, sexual orientations, backgrounds and beliefs. Our colleagues should feel included, valued and respected because people are the best version of themselves when they feel they are being treated fairly and respectfully.
Developing our employees
Our employees are critical to our success. We want to create an environment where everyone is able to fully contribute and be at their best. To help our employees progress their careers, ensure that we have the right experience and skills across Convatec, and develop a pipeline of talent for the future, we invest in a wide range of training and development opportunities. These are underpinned by our policies, systems and technologies. An entire pillar of the Convatec FISBE strategy focuses on building capabilities and expertise.
Health & safety and workplace standards
We have a team of dedicated Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) managers, located across our operations and R&D facilities, where around 60% of our colleagues are located. Our global EHS team leads the development of the EHS strategy, corporate policies, and standards; audits performance; supports the site teams to improve working practices; and ensures both legislative and company requirements are met. EHS performance is reported to senior management monthly, with updates provided to the CELT and Board during the year.
We are members of the United Nations (UN) Global Compact and have policies aligned to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which also reflect International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions and applies to all Convatec employees.
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