Early Careers Lead - Location Flexible (Hybrid) - Permanent
Royal Mail
Early Careers Lead - Location Flexible (Hybrid) - Permanent
£57600
Royal Mail, Dorcan, Swindon
- Full time
- Permanent
- Remote working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 13 Apr | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 2a11daea7054488b9ee9afc1b3bbfd8d
Full Job Description
- 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 10+ 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
- Developing 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 the early careers strategy, Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It's free, and it's for everyone.
- Lifestyle benefits - You can purchase a car, bike, home technology or mobile phone, or choose from a range of health benefits and insurance products. You make regular payments from your salary, and so could save on tax.
- Financial support - information and services to help you manage debt and grow your financial knowledge, with debt consolidation & savings plans
- Your peace of mind with - Healthcare CashPlan, Dental Cover, Additional Life (life insurance) & Additional Life Partner, Hospital & Death Benefit Plans; Voluntary Critical illness & Voluntary Critical illness Partner
- Free & discounted RMG products - free keep safe & redirection, partner discounts
- Free stamps at Christmas
- Available only to perm employees
- 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
With over 150,000 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., Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean 'your' interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.
Your career in safe hands
At Royal Mail we value our people and we want our people to be proud to work for our businesses.
We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don't, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. We are responsible for the largest B2B customer database in the UK and are one of the largest employers in the UK, providing one in every 194 jobs.
An operation of this size needs a strong support network, and the HR, Legal, Finance, IT, Risk & Governance, Customer Experience, Sales & Marketing departments are all integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations.
Royal Mail is a forward thinking, innovative organisation, that is also committed to reducing emissions and improving air quality in our communities. This includes investing in technologies such as electric vehicles, drones, alternative fuel trucks and energy improvements to our estate.
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.
You also have:
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.
Competitive salary, car allowance of £4800 or £4300 cash equivalent, full family private healthcare, annual bonus potential, generous annual leave offering of 27.5days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after 10 years service, company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time
This is a Hybrid Working role with a requirement to attend London Farringdon/key sites in line with business needs.