Early Careers Programme Manager - Operate

About PwC's Operate

PwC's Operate delivers operational and managed services solutions to clients across a range of situations often associated with their regulatory, risk and/or compliance agendas. We bring together regulatory insight, highly skilled operational resources and an unrivaled technology offering to provide a high quality and cost effective solution to operational delivery challenges.

Our capabilities stretch across a number of Service Areas including; Financial Crime, Customer Management, Compliance Testing, PMO, Legal Operations, Finance Solutions, Business Operations, Change Solutions and Technology Solutions. We have over 3,000 people located in our purpose built, secure delivery centre in Belfast; across our regional offices in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow and Edinburgh; and on a range of client sites.

The Role

This is an exciting role for those who are passionate about early careers/career changers, working with a range of internal and external stakeholders and who enjoy being innovative and visionary about reaching our target audiences. We are not only passionate about "growing our own" people but extremely successful at doing so, at pace and scale and we have ambitious growth plans.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Operate Talent Operations Leader, and working with the wider recruitment and talent teams as well as a range of key stakeholders, you will quickly develop an understanding of the Operate business to identify the volume of early career (Associate grade) hiring required short, medium and long term and design and implement a strategy to deliver.

• Work with stakeholders to identify the volume and skills required across each of our key business areas and in conjunction with the Talent Operations Leader, design and implement a strategy to deliver at pace and scale utilising our current talent channels (HLA's, Talent Pool and Assured Skills) as well as identifying new channels.

• Influence and drive recruiters and third party providers for maximum delivery of all necessary activities such as the creation of impactful and relevant job descriptions and leveraging job boards and attraction campaigns to ensure a constant pipeline of talent

• Identify, develop and maintain strong partnerships across the school, college and university network maximising all opportunities to engage with potential talent

• Drive metrics and processes to better measure achievements and increase conversion rates

• Review and improve the quality of candidates through effective selection methods including assessments and interviews as well as the use of technology.

• Represent PwC and Operate at relevant internal and external events and where there are opportunities to passionately and credibly inform our future pipeline of talent

Key Requirements

• Previous experience of driving the pipeline, delivery and operational governance of large scale recruitment projects including conducting interviews

• A well developed network across the education sector and previous experience in early careers attraction and recruitment is preferable

• Knowledgeable and passionate about early years talent channels and effective engagement activities

• Strong commercial thinking and business acumen with the ability to see the bigger picture and translate strategic thinking into a detailed operational plan

• An effective communicator and influencer with a track record of successfully building valuable and credible relationships

• Creative and visionary, forward thinking, and proactive as well as delivery focussed

• Ability to motivate others and demonstrate strong team–work

Base Location

The role will be based in Belfast, however as a result of the wide variety of clients and projects, you may be asked to travel to other UK locations for short periods. Candidates who are unable or do not wish to work in other locations will still be considered.

What is in it for you?

As we're responsive to client demands, your role will be varied and challenging. We're also exceptionally passionate about providing you with the necessary skills, experience and training to help you develop both personally and professionally.

In addition to the client projects and training, our employees are also rewarded with various other as part of your employment

• Our dedicated internal Careers Service.
• Competitive salary plus a potential discretionary bonus (performance related)
• 25 days standard holiday pro rata.

Not the role for you?

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