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Deloitte is one of the largest student employers in the UK. In total, we recruit around 4,000 students every year into Apprentice and Graduate programmes, as well as a broad range of work experience opportunities. We run high volume recruitment campaigns to fulfil this demand, ensuring a broad reach and accessibility across the Early Talent market. We have a passion not just for recruiting the best student talent in the marketplace but ensuring we’re making a positive impact on the lives of students in the UK, and our wider society. This means we’re focused on working with students at different times in their academic careers to educate them on career opportunities and help them develop employability skills. Key to our Early Careers strategy is ensuring we widen access to Professional Services to the most diverse range of candidates, by reducing barriers these students might face in exploring careers at Deloitte and creating a level playing field to access our opportunities.
Due to growth and investment in the team, a fantastic opportunity has arisen to join the Early Careers Recruitment Team as an Early Careers Recruitment Manager for the Early Identification Programmes.
The Early Careers Recruitment team is fast paced, forward thinking, fuelled by achieving success, delivering a best-in-class experience, and committed to enhancing the firm’s diversity. The Early Careers Recruitment team numbers circa 30 in-house resources plus additional RPO screening and scheduling support. The team sits within the Resourcing function as part of the UK firm’s wider HR capability. The Early Careers Recruitment team is based around the UK, working as one team to deliver a holistic service to our candidates and stakeholders.
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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
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Reporting to the Head of Talent Engagement, you’ll be a core member of the Early Careers team, responsible for managing a team of recruitment advisors to deliver a great business and candidate experience. You’ll be working with key parties to ensure efficient execution of our campaigns, such as our Resourcing Business Partners, Business leaders and our teams in Attraction, Talent Engagement, Early Experience Learning and AMS.
This Early Careers Recruitment Manager role is crucial for driving Deloitte's Early Identification (EID) strategy, ensuring we attract and nurture future talent pipelines. You’ll lead a team, oversee all aspects of EID programmes (from strategy and demand planning to recruitment, delivery, and conversion), and use your commercial mindset to effectively create and manage the associated budget. Your analytical skills will be key in evaluating programme effectiveness, optimising ROI, and establishing best practices. Collaboration with your peers in Early Careers is essential to embed EID principles and ensure a seamless transition of participants into broader programmes. This role also involves leading and developing a team of EID Advisors.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and implement a comprehensive EID strategy aligned with Deloitte's overall talent acquisition goals and future skills needs, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and evolving talent acquisition trends.
- Champion innovation within EID programmes, exploring new approaches and technologies to enhance programme effectiveness and reach. Stay abreast of emerging trends and best practices in the early talent identification and recruitment landscape.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to forecast future talent demands and align EID programme intake with anticipated needs. Accountable for delivering diverse representation through the EID programmes aligned to strategy. Develop forecasting models to project future EID conversion rates and inform strategic workforce planning.
- Design and oversee the execution of targeted recruitment campaigns to attract high-potential individuals from diverse backgrounds into EID programmes. Working with our Assessment CoE to ensure a quality experience for our candidates and hiring managers.
- Ensure the seamless delivery of all EID programmes and induction events, working in collaboration with our Early Experience Learning team who deliver the learning curriculum for each programme and together generating a best-in-class participant experience.
- Analysis of ROI and ensuring we are being commercial with spend when mapped against outcomes. Develop and implement a robust framework for measuring the return on investment (ROI) of all EID programmes. Analyse programme costs against outcomes, such as conversion rates, participant satisfaction, and business alignment. Use data-driven insights to optimise programme design and delivery, ensuring maximum value for investment.
- Conduct regular reviews and analysis of all EID programmes, evaluating their effectiveness against key performance indicators (KPIs). Benchmark Deloitte's EID programmes against industry best practices and analyse historical conversion trends to identify patterns, insights, and areas for improvement in programme design and delivery.
- Develop and manage the annual budget for all EID programmes, ensuring cost-effectiveness and efficient resource allocation. Track programme expenses and monitor budget variances, taking corrective actions as needed. Provide regular budget updates and reports to senior management, highlighting key financial performance indicators.
- Establish clear and consistent recruitment and conversion processes for all EID programmes, ensuring a positive candidate experience. Develop and implement EID-specific policies and procedures, covering areas such as eligibility criteria, selection processes, and conversion polices. Ensure compliance with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements related to early careers recruitment. Sensitive to risk, you’ll be the first escalation for issues within the EID programmes and your team. You’ll use knowledge and experience both to manage risk and knowing when it is appropriate to escalate to your Senior Manager.
- You will play a key role in the Early Careers Recruitment leadership team - support with recruitment of roles within the team, working on projects and initiatives outside of the day-to-day remit to drive innovation and to help build a great place to work for our team. As a people leader for the advisors in your team, you’ll be responsible for goal setting, coaching and development – ensuring your people are set-up for success with the right goals and opportunities to support their development and career aspirations. You’ll be an advocate for the Deloitte brand - attending recruitment events and supporting with work experience recruitment and activities when required.
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- Passionate about early careers recruitment with demonstrable experience working in a high volume, fast paced recruitment team across a complex, matrixed organisation
- Knowledge and significant experience of both the design and delivery of a breadth of Early Identification programmes
- Experience of managing a budget aligned to commercial goals
- Current knowledge of the early careers landscape in the UK
- An experienced people manager who is focused on coaching and developing their team to maximise their potential
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to deploy these skills effectively to influence with impact your internal and external stakeholders
- Strong team working ethos and able to build relationships at all levels both internally and externally
- Able to flex approach to link activity with broader objectives, whilst switching focus to deal with operational detail where necessary
- Comfortable analysing data to inform future thinking and able to articulate findings in a means that is understandable for both stakeholders and colleagues
- Able to articulate return on investment and display a commercial mindset to evidence the impact of your function on Deloitte’s business goals
- Thrives on working to high standards in a fast-paced environment
- Proven ability to focus on continuous improvement and innovation
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Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.
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Our hybrid working policy
You’ll be based in one of our UK offices with hybrid working. Our hybrid model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity. As well as remote working, you’ll attend your local office, virtual collaboration spaces and client sites, depending on the requirements of the role.
At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
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