Entity: People, Culture &amp; Communications Job Family Group: HR Group Job Description: Role Synopsis:The Early Careers Recruitment Manager will oversee the design and execution of strategies to attract, engage, pipeline, recruit, and onboard high calibre talent for early career programs (internships, apprenticeships, and graduate roles) across the Americas region. This role will focus on building a strong employer brand and ensuring a robust pipeline of bp talent for the future, working with the Head of Future Talent, their regional early careers counterparts and the early careers development team to ensure a joined-up approach to early careers hiring within their region. The manager will lead a team of advisors, coordinators, and team spearheads working closely with internal collaborators, and external partners (e.g., universities, external engagement partners) to deliver against recruitment objectives aligned with bp’s strategic goals. They will operate as a guide leader and coach the business, enabling outcomes that will positively impact the early careers talent strategy, playing a fundamental role in ensuring that business priorities including critical capabilities and future skills are driven throughout early careers engagement and hiring lifecycle. This role will also take on regional representation and responsibilities, ensuring consistency in approach and alignment with global talent acquisition initiatives, and regularly reporting recruitment efforts and progress to senior leadership at both global and regional levels.Role Purpose:The Early Careers Recruitment Manager will be responsible for the design and execution of strategies to attract, engage, pipeline, recruit, and onboard high calibre talent for emerging programs across the Americas region.Role Reporting Relationships:2 direct reports, 7 indirect reportsRole Accountabilities:- Strategy Development: Develop and implement tailored recruitment strategies aligned to the early careers operating model to attract, engage, pipeline and recruit early career talent, ensuring alignment with bp’s growth objectives and workforce planning requirements across the region.- Data and analytical thinking: Evaluates and improves recruitment performance through effective use and analysis of metrics on an annual basis, delivering an overarching strategic end of campaign review for their markets, understanding the early careers marketplace, trends, candidate behaviour and selection outcomes, with a focus on lessons learned, continuous improvement and finds opportunities for future campaigns.- Team Leadership: Leads, engages and develops a team of experienced early careers advisors and coordinators to effectively and efficiently deliver early careers talent pipelines for specified business areas and teams across relevant markets, aligning to guidelines in early career recruitment and driving high performance across the team, in line with operational metrics and ambitions. Partners with their regional manager counterparts and the early careers development team to deliver a seamless end to end early career cycle for candidates and the business.- Recruitment Process Management: Maintain and handle the full recruitment lifecycle and operating model for early career hiring, ensuring efficiency and compliance, quality hiring decisions and an exceptional candidate experience.- Skills Pipelining: Drive recruitment initiatives that promote bp career opportunities and build a skills pipeline for future demand. Implement and complete the Early Careers Early Engagement Operating Model in specific markets to support skills at a field level and in line with forecasted future demand needs.- University &amp; External Partner Engagement: Nurture strong strategic partnerships with local universities in their market, exauthoritynderstanding of university landscape/course content - identifying, engaging and partnering with universities that deliver on bp future skills - leads with transparency and structure to ensure early careers advisors and bp volunteers deliver campus attraction campaigns that align with early careers talent strategy.- Market Research &amp; Benchmarking: Keep up to date with the latest trends in emerging recruitment, particularly within the different priority fields and across industry sectors, to maintain a coa competitive positiontalent acquisition. Uses industry insights to benchmark performance, evaluate, advise and enhance future engagement/hiring campaigns or strategic direction in region.- Metrics &amp; Reporting: Monitor and report on key recruitment metrics, including volumes and application flows, candidate performance and conversion rates from early engagement programmes / internships, using insights to continually improve recruitment effectiveness and efficiencies, as well as evaluate ROI on partnerships, early engagement programmes, investments and resource. Uses operational and real-time reporting insights to advise operational excellence alignment across their team.- Budget Management: Be responsible for the recruitment budget for early career programs, ensuring cost-effective hiring solutions that meet business needs, with a focus on tracking of ROI across all initiatives, has the ability to shift campaigns to gain increased return on investments made with universities, partnerships and early engagement.- Technology Utilization: Leverage recruitment technologies to optimize processes and support data-driven decision-making, ensuring team’s effective utilization of Future Talent software and digital solutions to drive efficiencies in processes.- Stakeholder Engagement: Engages continually with key business and local P&amp;C leadership to ensure that the Future Talent service is relevant and delivering value against business priorities.- Partnership with in-market leaders: Partners with local P&amp;C leadership teams to ensure compliance with all local government laws, regulations, licence to operate and nationalization commitments, including regular audits and updates.- Collaboration: Partners with Early Careers Development team colleagues and supports delivery of onboarding ensuring seamless handover of candidate responsibility.Skills:- Relationship/Stakeholder Management: Strong stakeholder management skills, with proven ability to influence and collaborate with internal and external partners. Ability to manage, engage and educate at all levels on early careers recruitment strategies and standard process.- Project Management: Ability to manage multiple high volume recruitment campaigns simultaneously, while ensuring timely delivery of high calibre and diverse hires.- Strong Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present ideas and strategies to senior leadership.Experience:- 5-8 years of recruitment experience, with a focus on early careers, graduate, apprenticeship recruitment, and early engagement pipeliningRegional Experience: Established experience working within early engagement, intern, graduate and apprentice recruitment across the region is essential.Proven experience of planning, developing and delivering end-to-end high volume early careers specific campaigns across multiple channels - from attraction &amp; engagement,  assessment &amp; selection, to offer &amp; onboarding, including keep warm activity.Deep understanding and experience of early careers engagement and recruiting strategies at a regional level - including knowledge of early careers specific market windows, competitor landscape and acadmic structures at a country level.Experiened leadership and line management capability across large / geographically dispersed teams, proven ability of leading a team across multiple locations, whlst ensuring alignment to early careers best practice, global operating model, global vs. local EC recruiting strategies, creating a cohesive and positive team environment.Technical:Proven capability and experience in 3+ year outlook early careers strategy pipeline planning - has demonstrated experience in designing, developing, and activating early engagement strategies for early careers hiring, with proven and measurable outcomes that impact final hiring results.Proven understanding of early careers assessment best practice in line with volume recruiting and local markets, including regional / country level employment markets and educational systems.Data-Driven Decision Making/Analytical Thinking: Proven experience using early careers recruitment metrics / insights, both internal &amp; external, to identify opportunities, predict outcomes and improve processes / decision making / engagement strategies to influence hiring outcomes e.g. sourcing strategies &amp; strategic workforce shaping.Proven capability and deep understanding of early careers recruitment operations - systems/tech, early careers procecsses, best practice, assessment at scale, early engagement pipelinning, candidate targeting.Experienced in managing set budgets, with spend aligning to specific engagement, candidate taregting, programmatic &amp; operational delivery - with a focus on ROI and continious improvement to lower costs with higher returns.Behavioral:Cultural Sensitivity: Proven ability to work effectively and lead others in a multicultural environment and understand the nuances of early careers recruiting across different countries within the region. Skilled in leading teams, fostering a positive, cohesive, and respectful team environment, while focusing on tasks that deliver the highest value and impact at pace and in line with market windows.Skilled in managing a wide range of stakeholders, proven ability to influence and engage, and capability to balance / negotiate business expectations in line with global operating models.Demonstrates resillience and ability to manage ambiguity and high volumes during peak delivery, at pace and with continued focus - has the capability to role model and provide support to others to do so.Role models Who We Are and acts as an ambassador for bp both internally and externally at recruitment events and during programme delivery.Key Relationships - internal, external:Internal: - Head of Future Talent- Early Career Development Team- Early Careers Operations &amp; Experience Team- PC&amp;C Business Partners- Entity and Hiring Managers- TA Talent AttractionExternal:- Universities, Educational Institutions and external engagement partners e.g. Handshake- Recruitment Agencies- Industry Bodies, Professional Associations and Industry peers- Government Agencies Travel RequirementUp to 10% travel should be expected with this role Relocation Assistance:This role is not eligible for relocation Remote Type:This position is a hybrid of office/remote working Skills:Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Authenticity, Communication, Continuous Improvement, Creating and measuring impact, Creativity and Innovation, Culture and behaviour change, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Diversity, Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Equity and Inclusion, Ethical judgement, Influencing, Knowledge Sharing, Leadership Assessment, Leading transformation, Listening, Methods and tools, Offer Management, Programme management, Regional perspective, Resource and budget planning {+ 5 more} Legal Disclaimer:We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please <a target="_blank" href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https:%2f%2fwww.bp.com%2fen%2fglobal%2fcorporate%2fcareers%2fcontact-us.html&amp;data=05%7c02%7cisra.yousif%40bp.com%7c5e11f23a21e84c5fe8af08dc95ee6a84%7cea80952ea47642d4aaf45457852b0f7e%7c0%7c0%7c638550098416834661%7cUnknown%7cTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7c0%7c%7c%7c&amp;sdata=HZUjwiD%2fnV1I8x8tkDd1vtRqy9l4Jpk%2fnExNwbBfPzA%3D&amp;reserved=0">contact us</a>. If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.

BP

Early Careers Recruitment Manager - Americas United States of America - Texas - Houston

BP