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Student Recruitment Manager

Employer
PwC
Location
West Midlands
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
1 Nov 2019

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Sector
Professional Services
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Job Type
HR (General)

Job Details

Who we are looking for
Forming part of PwC's UK Human Capital (HC) Services group, the Student Recruitment team is responsible for implementing and delivering the firm's student recruitment strategy to identify, attract, select and engage the best possible talent from UK Universities and schools.

We have an exciting opportunity in our Midlands Student Recruitment team for a Recruitment Manager. Based in our Birmingham office, the Midlands Student Recruitment Manager leads a team of 5 to deliver an annual headcount of over 470 students across all Lines of Service. The Midlands practice has over 2,500 employees and covers Milton Keynes, Birmingham and our Castle Donington office in the East Midlands.

As Manager, you’ll be accountable for designing a local recruitment strategy to deliver both our hiring and diversity goals across both the graduate and schools markets. Using your in depth understanding of the undergraduate marketplace, you will partner with key senior stakeholders to understand local business requirements within each line of service and will provide expert advice on how your team will deliver their requirements.

You’ll oversee the operations process for all hires into the Midlands practice – partnering with our HC Customer Services team to ensure pipelines are managed efficiently, ensuring data accuracy within our ATS and MI reporting and delivering a positive experience throughout the candidate life cycle from application to on-boarding. Additionally, you’ll lead your team and clients through our technology transformation of student recruitment processes, ensuring the implementation of our immersive recruitment experience continues to give both our stakeholders and candidates that exceptional PwC experience.

The Student Recruitment Manager is responsible for the design and execution of an appropriate attraction strategy that reflects key local and national strategic goals. You will work with colleagues in the wider recruitment team to ensure campus and school plans are in place to deliver required headcounts and will drive interventions where necessary to target key areas. You will own relationships with key universities and schools to deliver this and will invest time on campus and in schools to directly source the best talent in the market.


About the role
Operations
  • Build and sustain relationships within the Midlands practice, Operations, Resourcing and Human Capital (HC) leadership to understand and inform annual student recruitment needs.

  • Ensure the Midlands business recruitment needs are appropriately reflected in marketing collateral including definition and agreement of selling messages.

  • Ensure student recruitment targets are agreed and delivered against across all of our programmes - schools through to university markets and insight experiences through to permanent hires.

  • Build relationships with key Midlands stakeholders and provide regular management reporting on progress against targets - advising on corrective marketing where appropriate.

  • Ensure resources are committed appropriately to the Student Recruitment effort from your regional business units (e.g. campus and schools event business ambassadors).

  • Resolve complex problems and escalate as appropriate, whilst mitigating legal, financial and reputational risk.

  • Delivery of elements of the recruitment process, such as assessment day hosting and assessing, which may include travelling to other regions at times to support.

  • Securing and maintaining buy-in and commitment from key stakeholders in the Midlands business to new and existing student recruitment initiatives.

  • Work in partnership with internal teams to ensure a seamless recruitment and on-boarding experience for our candidates.

  • Deliver an effective keep warm strategy.

  • Contributing to / managing internal related projects to time and budget.

  • Attraction
  • Design and deliver the attraction strategy at key Midlands universities and schools, in line with firm wide and local strategic goals.

  • Leverage our 3rd party networks to deliver events that support our diversity goals in both the Universities and Schools markets.

  • Coordinate, host and resource a wide variety of campus and schools based events – such as employability skills sessions, networking evenings, brand events and office insight days, with regular travel required.

  • Own the relationship with university careers services, student clubs & societies and local schools – advising on firm specific and market-wide developments.

  • Drive necessary interventions on campus to support the recruitment of the required headcount both locally and nationally.

  • Complete annual measuring success reviews of campus and schools strategy to understand ROI and inform future planning.

  • Manage the regional campus budgets.

  • Team
  • Manage a team of 5 direct reports – as a line manager and career coach – responsible for supporting them with their performance objectives and personal development goals.

  • Act as a role model to both your team and the wider student recruitment team – in the Midlands and nationally.

  • Ensure your team are resourced and well positioned to deliver on their roles and responsibilities.



  • A career in our Human Resources, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to make a difference at PwC by helping to fully leverage the skills and talents of all our people. You’ll help our local offices in driving the Firm’s people strategy, creating a unique people experience for each individual, and supporting our Firm wide values by working with the core competencies that measure and drive individual and Firm wide success in the marketplace.


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