Student Recruitment Manager – Operations – Consulting 12 month FTC – UK Wide – London Full Time

Student Recruitment Manager – Operations – Consulting 12 month FTC – UK Wide

You will be accountable for delivering a best-in-class candidate experience through hiring exceptional students to meet challenging targets across EY Consulting and Technology nationally. Reporting to the Senior Student Recruitment Operations Manager, you will focus on strategically imperative priorities in the early careers landscape at EY.

You will be joining at an exciting time with the opportunity to directly impact the growth of EY Consulting early careers. You will strategically partner with the business to develop innovative ways to market, to review the selection process and to collaboratively address this growing area’s early talent needs.

The opportunity

You will work as part of a large Student Recruitment team with the support of a shared service function that recruits a substantial number of graduates, undergraduates and school leavers across the UK.

In addition, you will be required to assume team management responsibilities such as counselling and coaching as well as line management of three student recruitment advisors.

Your key responsibilities

You will have overall ownership of candidate pipelines for Consulting. This will involve:

• Analysis and management of candidate flow to identify potential areas of concern and ensure KPI’s are being met or exceeded on an ongoing basis
• Working with Talent Shared Services to deliver an exceptional candidate experience whilst maintaining efficient turnaround times and monitoring of pipelines
• Involvement with final stage assessment events for your service lines, where your primary responsibility will be to ensure they run well from an operational and logistical perspective, ultimately driving fill rate, but supporting the objective to give candidates a differential experience at EY.
• Offer recommendations
• Plan and implement appropriate opening and close dates for your programmes and monitor application volumes
• Work closely with the Brand and Attraction teams to ensure the volume and focus of candidates is suitable
• Responsibility for the consistent application of shortlisting candidates against set criteria in order to effectively fill final stage events
• Responsibility for the consistent application of Student Recruitment strategy and process across the team, as well as strategic involvement with shaping this strategy for each campaign
• Analysis (and preparation of) management information, presenting at meetings and feeding back to key stakeholders, as well as senior Student Recruitment managers
• Working closely with the wider student recruitment and Brand and Attraction teams to deliver post offer events and activities appropriate to your service lines
• Working closely with senior Student Recruitment managers and the business to ensure target numbers are accurate and review these as part of wave recruitment
• Responsibility for the delivery of the Early ID programmes within your portfolio, as well as looking strategically at effectiveness of the programmes and overseeing the implementation of these
• You will support and lead on projects that contribute to the overall success of the Student Recruitment strategy

You will be responsible for effective management of aspects of the recruitment process, both through Talent Shared Services Student Recruitment operations team, for example: candidate management system; -final stage events; – assessor training; post offer process; work permits; policies; continuous improvement.

Engagement with senior stakeholders is key to understand specific business needs and develop the Student Recruitment strategy. You will hold regular meetings with business contacts to update on strategic direction; performance vs target to date and as well as deal with any internal issues that may arise. You will work closely with the regional Brand and Attraction representatives in order to provide the business with an end to end update on Student Recruitment.

Your work will largely be undertaken remotely / virtually, although you will be required to travel as necessary within the UK to meet key contacts and build relationships with wider client serving teams, as well as attend team meetings, one to ones and deliver or support final stage events, as well as campus, schools and office events.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong team player with positive personal impact
• Ability and experience of influencing and engaging senior stakeholders
• Able to work in a client driven environment and flex personal style or direction where needed

To qualify for the role you must have

• Proven ability to work autonomously and to high standards, able to take the lead on assigned projects using knowledge to achieve quality results
• Experience of leading and motivating others with an emphasis on coaching and counselling
• Significant recruitment experience, skills and knowledge (ideally student recruitment) and able to manage high volume candidate pipelines
• Thrive on working to high standards by exceeding targets and KPI’s in a fast-paced environment
• Proven ability to focus on continuous improvement and innovation

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Confident excel skills (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs etc.)
• Knowledge of core assessment and selection tools
• An awareness of the latest employment legislation and key issues surrounding immigration

What we look for

We are looking for an experienced people manager who ideally has experience of working in student recruitment. You will have worked in a fast paced, high volume environment and be comfortable with facilitating the delivery of high quality candidate pipelines to business areas.

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a b etter working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality. [LN1]

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world.

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