Early Careers Lead

Job DescriptionWe are current recruiting an Early Careers Lead to join the Talent team on a full-time permanent basis, reporting into the Director of Talent.
This is a home-based role, although occasional travel will be required.
This role is key in delivering the overall people plan and talent strategy by working with HR and Talent teams to determine our early careers strategy, ensuring we build diverse early talent pipelines The purpose of this role is to step change what we do for early talent, working with HR partners to determine our future talent strategy and maximising and fast tracking this valuable resource.
It will also work with our DEI, social responsibility and sustainability teams to recommend and drive our social mobility goals, and work alongside our broader Sysco colleagues to support and embed European and Global practices.
The role holder will own all apprenticeships and other programmes , graduates, interns etc.
centralising current programmes, to maximise impact and make them effective and efficient, and building new programmes to enable growth.
They will create a platform and process for business areas to pull from and build strong relationships with apprenticeship suppliers and other professional bodies including schools, colleges, universities and more, running our programmes.
They will also lead on and run PR campaigns, recruitment strategy, programme design and measuring impact.
We're looking for someone with experience across all areas of early career's activity and someone who can demonstrate competence in Gen Alpha, enabling them to adapt and harness programmes to the needs of our future generations.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:Taking overall responsibility for determining, recommending, and influencing when and which early careers approach is best for our business needs.
Overall responsibility for apprenticeship Levy and system.
Set up and delivery of future careers programmes and initiatives across Sysco GB to support high potential development and talent strategies.
Creating, overseeing, and managing outreach strategy to drive relationships and applications from schools, colleges, community, employment partners and universities – including supporting our social mobility aspirations.
Working with key stakeholders to clarify needs and provide expertise consistency and best practice in the design, development, and delivery of early careers programmes.
Shaping recruitment strategy and approach and working with the appropriate teams to build development and/or assessment centres.
Ownership of onboarding and induction of all early talent.
Provide expertise in all aspects of early careers, researching external best practice and delivering a best in class offer.
identify learning and development needs and, working with talent development partners, sourcing solutions for all early careers' schemes.
Work with the business and wider HR team to deliver all other organisational development solutions as appropriate induction, career coaching, pay, performance management/ succession etc.
Monitor and analyse KPI's to improve programme success.About you To be successful in this role you will have a full understanding of the end-to-end talent process/principles & methodologies in attraction, selection, assessment, and development coupled with previous experience developing and managing early career programs.
You will have previous experience developing an early careers strategy and creating outreach activity and strategy as well as experience of setting up career's programmes, including apprenticeships, internal pipeline development and graduate schemes.
As part of the role you will research, understand, and predict future trends in early talent - probing on and predicting current and future needs and influence, engage, excite and inspire with confidence and enthusiasm.
It's crucial that you can build strong relationships across all levels of stakeholders in the business whilst supporting business goals providing fair opportunities across the business (DE&I).
You will also have a proven track record in running large-scale, multi-function projects and programs and drive for results and ability to bias to action, developing early-stage recommendations for discussion and further development.
What you'll receive: A competitive salary Company car allowance of £7,000 Pension scheme Life Assurance Single private medical healthcare cover Generous holiday allowance of 25 days + bank holidays, with option to purchase additional holidays Huge discounts on all sorts of lovely food and award-wining products through our staff shop Discounts on Cinema tickets, shopping and earn cashback on purchases through Sysco benefits portal Recognition awards and Incentives Real career opportunities - being part of Sysco, the world's leading foodservice business, opens a world of possibility Additional InformationAt Brakes everyone is welcome.
We don't want you to 'fit our culture' we want you to help define it and we actively celebrate the unique talents of each and every colleague.
We don't just look at your CV, we're more focused on who you are and your potential.
As part of our values, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone has a voice, is appreciated and has the same opportunities.
We work hard to ensure that everyone feels part of our business, as we care for one another and connect the world through food and trusted partnerships.
Our ultimate goal is to ensure that everyone belongs and thrives at Brakes and we recognise that Brakes can only thrive when everyone feels they belong.
We'll do everything we can to support you during your application.
If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our resourcing team who will be happy to support you.
BrakesBuilt on a passion for food and feeding the nation, we are the UK's largest foodservice supplier.
Every day Brakes deliver the highest quality fresh and frozen food and ingredients from our nationwide network of distribution centres to some of the nation's most famous pubs and restaurants, as well as schools, caterers, care homes and hospitals.
Our customers depend on us, and our 8,000-strong workforce is dedicated and proud to be part of this vital provision.
And we're growing!