Early Careers Senior Manager

Location: Barcelona or Paris – can be based in London for the first year but with a high degree of travel. Relocation will be required thereafter.

Travel: There is likely to be in the regions of 70% travel in the first year

Salary: Circa £75k per annum

Contract type: Permanent

This might just be the best early careers development role that you will ever apply for…

We like to grab people’s attention with bold statements. And we love to back them up with a compelling story. This is an incredible opportunity and we are looking for the brightest and best in early talent attraction and development to join this great business. They operate some well-known brands but we don’t want to ruin the surprise by telling you who they are just yet. Where is the fun in that?

What we can tell you is that this is an opportunity build an early careers programme from the ground up and to really drive how it operates in this super organisation. This is your opportunity to help managers hire and develop the best early career talent for the business.

We are looking for someone who understands how to develop those in the early stages of their careers. If you also have experience of this field of expertise then we think we have a very special opportunity for you to consider…

What will be keeping you busy?

You will be responsible for designing and managing early career programmes. You will oversee the provision of coaching along with guidance to HR colleagues, participants and line managers and senior leaders on talent programmes, frameworks and processes, tools and analytics. All this while promoting and embedding best practice across the business.

You will be working closely with those in the early stages of their careers that require development and guidance. You will oversees general skills development around subjects such as stakeholder engagement and you will sign-post them to colleagues in the business that can mentor them. You will be responsible for driving the coaching and mentoring of those going through the early careers programme, helping them to increase their professional and technical capability, supporting their development and future career progression on an ongoing basis.

This role require will require someone that can understand the needs of those in the early stages of their new career. You will need to unlock a relationship by asking the right questions and building rapport with them.

As well as a focus on early careers work you will need to be a good relationship builder. This business has a rigorous recruitment process where they test thoroughly against competencies. You will need to have experience of effective interviewing and recruiting as you will play a key role in hiring bright talent into the programme.

Building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders across the business is also an important part of this role. You will gather feedback from them and provide this to those on the programme so that they can continue to develop with this constructive feedback.

Who are we looking for?

The core experience required is a mixture of relationship management, attraction and assessment design and delivery and learning program design and career management.

We are keen to speak to individuals with strong operational and strategic early careers programme design, delivery and management. Ideally this will include an international focus and if you have language skills this would certainly be to your advantage (specifically French or Spanish).

The successful candidate’s previous job title is less important. It is the core skills to do this role that we are looking for here.

You will need to possess a genuine understanding of talent attraction and development principles and processes. In addition, you will need to be highly numerate with strong analytical skills with the ability to identify insights, recommendations and outcomes to influence capability.

Understanding of capability building requirements and challenges in technical disciplines would be advantageous as there will be a specific focus on the technical early careers programme operating alongside a generalist one.

A good knowledge of several psychometrics/assessment tools used in graduate recruitment including AI technology will prove useful. Experience of developing partnerships with key educational organisations will also be required.

What’s in it for you?

A very real opportunity to progress with a fantastic global business that takes development and career management seriously - they don’t just pay lip service to it. You will always seek to improve yourself and help those around you to do the same.

You will get to work with great colleagues who love what they do and will support you in your efforts to deliver a first-class early careers programme for the business.

Why not send us your CV?

It could be the smartest move that you ever make and we are looking for very smart people!