Talent Lead - Early Careers

Job reference 323118
Talent Lead - Early Careers
Competitive salary plus £4,200 car allowance, healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential, 27.5 days annual leave rising with service, plus bank holidays. Company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates.
Permanent, Full time
Location: Farringdon (hybrid)

With over 130,000 colleagues and 500 years of history, here at Royal Mail Group we are going through a period of major change and transformation. We are seeking an Early Careers Lead to support us in creating opportunities and development pathways for the next generation of Royal Mail talent.

About the role

• Partnering across the organisation to understand and identify where an early career product could solve business talent needs
• Leading a team of Early Career Managers to effectively partner business leaders and key stakeholders, offering subject matter expertise and co-creating effective talent solutions
• Leading the cyclical recruitment, onboarding and development activity across early career programmes from apprenticeships through to graduates
• Developing a programme of bespoke development and engagement activities to centrally enhance the experience of colleagues on early career programmes, building their core skills to succeed in the workplace
• Utilising a large scale apprenticeship levy fund to embed apprenticeship opportunities into early career programmes, enhancing the development we can offer to new talent
• Supporting the development of bespoke attraction and media strategies to attract the best possible talent
• Leading outreach activity to develop active applicant pipelines through schools engagement, insight events and strategic work experience activity
• Measuring and actively communicating the impact of early career products and solutions
• Staying connected and bringing market trends and insights into the organisation to continually evolve early careers strategy

About You

• You are a proven early careers professional with experience of managing a range of talent solutions. You have a track record of delivering against a large portfolio and are passionate about creating new opportunities for early career talent. You understand the needs of early career individuals and can translate this into a great employee experience.
• Strong stakeholder management experience, able to engage and influence colleagues at different levels to secure maximum buy-in and support for early career portfolio
• Demonstrable evidence of leading the development and ongoing management of early career products
• A solid understanding of apprenticeships including levy funding and the apprenticeship standards available
• Experience in building product-type solutions and evidence of marketing internal products to a range of different stakeholders
• A strong understanding of the current early careers landscape
• A proven ability to translate ideas and insights into tangible, measurable actions
• Project management skills to enable management of multiple projects to time
• Excellent business acumen, problem framing, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent presentation and written/verbal communication skills

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

Closing Date: Sunday 13th April. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.