Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey. The Emerging Talent Senior Manager is responsible for the delivery of recruitment and selection activity and supports the wider team in creating a high-quality development experience for graduates, apprentices and industrial placements across Europe, with a primary regional lead focus on graduates. This is a 12-month fixed term contract role.

You’ll be responsible for:

Recruitment, attraction and selection
Acting as the regional lead for graduate and industrial placement recruitment in partnership with Talent Acquisition. Managing university attraction activity, candidate assessment centres, offer processes and approvals. Managing the end-to-end emerging talent process from talent acquisition shortlisting through to assessment, offer and onboarding. Attending educational institutions and external forums to attract a diverse and high-calibre pipeline of emerging talent. Ensuring robust due diligence and selection processes are applied to support future consultancy capability needs.

Programme delivery and development
Directing the regional delivery and continuous improvement of technical, behavioural, professional and business skills development activity across the programme lifecycle. Owning the regional annual development calendar, ensuring programme activity is planned, communicated and delivered effectively across cohorts and regions. Managing regional onboarding, induction, development, networking events, progression readiness activity, celebration processes and events. Maintaining programme materials, toolkits, guidance documents, learning pathways and communication resources for emerging talent, line managers, ET Ambassadors and buddies. Collaborating with external training providers, professional bodies and education partners to ensure development pathways are delivered on time and effectively.

Stakeholder management and coaching
Serving as the senior regional contact point for graduates, apprentices, industrial placements and Europe stakeholders. Influencing stakeholders to prioritise development, attendance, completion and progression readiness across cohorts. Educating ET ambassadors and line managers on programme processes and best practice, challenging quality or approach where needed. Setting a regular cadence of review meetings with ET Ambassadors to review progress and agree actions. Building strong relationships with the emerging talent team and wider HR team, operating as one team and supporting alignment with core HR processes. Acting as a coach to team members and deputise for the emerging talent lead when required.

Data, reporting and continuous improvement
Ensuring regional reporting is completed, accurate and up to date for regular stakeholder updates. Monitoring attendance, completion, assessment results, feedback and development outcomes to identify trends, risks and opportunities for improvement. Using reporting, dashboards, feedback, benchmarking and programme data to recommend and implement improvements to the development experience. Contributing to senior leadership reporting by providing insight on development progress, programme engagement, assessment performance and emerging risks. Raising risks and issues in a timely manner, ensuring practical solutions are proposed and actioned.

Compliance, inclusion and risk management
Ensuring personal and team adherence to Mace, regional and country laws, policies and processes. Providing guidance to others to protect the business and ensure emerging talent activity is progressed within legal and policy frameworks. Ensuring development activity supports inclusion, accessibility, wellbeing and social mobility, with appropriate adjustments and support in place where required. Identifying individuals or cohorts requiring additional support and working with relevant stakeholders to agree appropriate interventions.

Experience
Significant experience of driving emerging talent recruitment, attraction, recruitment and onboarding campaigns, including graduate, undergraduate and apprenticeship programmes. Experience of designing, implementing and delivering successful emerging talent attraction, recruitment and onboarding campaigns and management of high volume recruitment processes and technology. Experience in utilising a variety of sourcing methods. Experience or thorough knowledge of the secondary and higher education market, including building relationships with schools, colleges, universities and diversity partners.

About you
Strong stakeholder management and coaching skills. Ability to influence and educate ET ambassadors and line managers on programme processes and best practice. Excellent organisational skills to manage programme delivery and continuous improvement. Collaborative team player who can build strong relationships across teams and regions. Commitment to inclusion, accessibility, wellbeing and social mobility in development activities.

Qualifications
No specific qualifications stated; however, relevant experience in emerging talent management and recruitment is essential.