Early Careers Talent Manager

Your responsibilities

Strategy & Program Leadership: 

• Lead the North America Early Careers strategy across interns, and graduate rotational programs. 
• Define program architecture for rotational programs yearly, in alignment with business need and direction (e.g., duration, placements, locations, learning curriculum, assessment points, and graduation criteria).
• Establish yearly operating plans and calendars covering attraction, assessment, selection, onboarding, training, events, performance checkpoints, and conversion.

Recruitment & Employer Branding

• Own the campus/channel portfolio and events plan (target schools, diversity partners, professional associations, virtual events).
• Act as lead employer brand ambassador; collaborate with Communications/Brand on social, digital, and content to drive impressions, applications, and offer acceptance.
• Partner with career centers, professors, student orgs, and national networks to broaden reach and equity in hiring.

Assessment, Selection & Hiring Operations

• Ensure high quality, fast, and fair processes from requisition to offer. Ensure high quality interview days/assessment centers, hiring manager enablement, offers, and preboarding.
• Implement validated assessments and structured interviewing; train assessors; ensure consistency and mitigation of bias.

Program Management, Onboarding & Experience

• Orchestrate intern and graduate orientation, learning agendas, case competitions, mentorship, and community-building.
• Manage rotational assignments in partnership with HRBPs and functional leaders.
• Enable high-quality performance and potential assessment through structured checkpoints, manager enablement, and development-focused conversations that support strong conversion and career outcomes.
• Deliver high impact events (e.g., assessment days, immersion weeks, leadership panels, graduation ceremonies, alumni engagement).

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Serve as the central point of contact for HRBPs, hiring managers, and leaders, influencing decisions with data and market insights.
• Lead vendor relationships (core schools, assessment providers, event platforms, diversity partners); own contract reviews and records.

Leadership/Learning: 

• Design and continuously evolve our graduate leadership and learning offerings for interns and graduates to build the skills, mindsets, and capabilities needed for our future leadership pipeline.

Data, Insights, Compliance & Continuous Improvement: 

• Analyze key metrics and KPIs to ensure the continuous improvement of our Early Careers talent programs. 

Budget Ownership: 

• Own and optimize the annual Early Careers budget; ensuring ROI of events, media, partners, and programs; reallocate to top performing channels.