Early Careers Talent Senior Manager

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

Job Title: Early Careers Talent Senior Manager

Location: Cambridge or London UK - Hybrid (50% of the working time at the office)

Employment Type: Full time permanent

The job

Work as part of the global Talent & Learning team to shape and support the talent development strategy for Early Careers in AVEVA in alignment with the People Strategy and business vision mission and values.

This role will take a lead on the global talent development strategy for early career development (interns apprentices and graduates) supporting the needs of employees and the growth of our business. This will involve evolving and implementing the multi-year Early Career strategy and managing the global and function specific frameworks and programmes through working closely with the business leaders. In addition this role will co-ordinate our Early Careers end to end process from attraction through to talent retention through strong collaboration with the Talent Acquisition teams to ensure global alignment consistent assessment processes and ensure an overall quality employee experience at all touch points. Building strong trusted relationships with managers employees and HRBPs across multiple disciplines while helping drive culture change is critical.

Over time this role may also be accountable for talent partnering and/or work on specific talent projects to grow and evolve the talent pipeline that reflect an inclusive and multi-generation tech workforce.

Key responsibilities

With Talent Acquisition HRBPs Function Business Leads and other business leaders implement and continue to evolve our Early Career strategy to support a strong pipeline of future talent fit to enable our business growth. Understand future skill needs and workforce plans and gain support from a key range of stakeholders to accelerate the development of early career talent and meet the changing needs of employees and the business.

Co-ordinate end to end our Early Careers approach from attraction through to talent retention and acceleration working with stakeholders and the wider people team to bring about a consistent and high quality employee experience at all touch points balancing global scalability with local country needs.

Have direct responsibility for structured talent onboarding and development of Apprentices and Graduates globally working with Business Leads on key programmes that operate within our global framework while meeting business needs for growing future talent. This includes induction rotational programmes non-rotational programmes skills development cohort connections performance management reward recognition and engagement.

Oversee and evolve our early careers skills assessment approach globally bringing talent assessment expertise and experience to our recruitment team to ensure inclusive hiring at scale based on a relevant and consistent skills framework and using AI proof techniques to enable robust decision making.

Work closely with internal and external communications and TA on promotion of early careers programs at a global level externally as well as internal alignment on key messages using appropriate communication channels managing multiple stakeholders at all levels.

Continue to track and support the development of Early Career talent as they transition from the end of their programmes into emerging careers at AVEVA developing longer term retention strategies and breadth and depth of career opportunities connected to our Talking Talent approach.

Align on key program success metrics with the business and wider people team bringing robust data into all aspects of the role being able to analyse manipulate and spot data trends in order to bring insights to HRBPs leaders and employees. Monitor progress over time and take action.

Work closely with the wider Talent & Learning team to contribute and lead projects that shape the talent strategy agenda and approach aligned to the AVEVA Values. Bring different thinking thought leadership talent expertise and a willingness to challenge the existing practices.

Essential requirements

Thought leadership in talent talent pipelines early careers and assessment capable of turning thought leadership into practical strategies

Curiosity to bring new practices into the organization to accelerate the transformation of the business

Proven ability to collaborate effectively with HRBPs at a strategic and operational level connect with employees and coach leaders at all organisational levels

Drive and commitment to achieve results with a simple pragmatic and action-oriented approach coupled with strong programme management timely execution and attention to detail

Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data to bring rich insights into the organisation and shape the talent agenda

Ability to animate and embed change

Strong stakeholder management influencing without authority communications and facilitation skills verbal and written

Interest in our business and the challenges of the tech industry

Experience of working in complex organisations with senior leadership and multiple stakeholders across different geographies and with diverse groups

Experience in design and implementation of talent development solutions for early careers ideally including rotation programmes skill development and longer term career development

Knowledge and awareness of early careers recruitment approaches

Demonstrated knowledge and skills in talent career development and change management

Demonstrated capability in project and program management

Experience in global cultures and global cultural transformations

Experience of being data driven and creating talent insights that challenge the status quo

Experience of using HRIS system for talent processes and data insights

Desired skills

Experience of working in the tech industry

Experience of working in other areas of talent or learning

Behaviours

• Impact:
  • Ambition and drive to work at pace and meet challenging deadlines while working effectively under pressure
  • Leading by example as a team player and strong on follow-through
  • Passionate about making a difference to employees careers
• Aspiration:
  • Strategic thinker balancing short and long term outcomes
  • Taking ownership to deliver
  • Simplifying and scaling our approach and connecting to the business needs of the future
• Curiosity:
  • Able to find powerful meaningful solutions experimenting and being creative with new approaches
  • Consider inclusive perspectives across geographies cultures and different thinking
  • Questioning the usual
• Trust:
  • Building relationships at all levels based on inclusion and respect bridging barriers understanding others
  • Influencing and inspiring others through trust and appreciation
  • Keeping promises

People at AVEVA

Were focused on the single most important part of AVEVAs business: our recruitment and reward to experience and engagement our partnerships across the business create and enable the conditions for every individual to thrive.

Doing the best we can for our great peoplerequires quick thinking and big thinking. Our team is as involved in the day-to-day activities affecting the employee experience as we are in the global transformation projects shaping AVEVAs future. Join us and become part of a diverse and vibrant group thats striving to make every day at AVEVA even better than the last.

UK Benefits include:

Flexible benefits fund emergency leave days adoption leave 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) pension life cover private medical insurance parental leave education assistance program.

Its possible were hiring for this position in multiple countries in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location. Specific benefits vary by country but our packages are similarly comprehensive.

Find out more: working

By default employees are expected to be in their local AVEVA office three days a week but some positions are fully office-based. Roles supporting particular customers or markets are sometimes remote.

Hiring process

Interested Great! Get started by submitting your cover letter and CV through our application portal. AVEVA is committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities. Please let us know in advance if you need reasonable support during your application process.

Find out more: AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software with more than 6500 employees in over 40 countries. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life such as energy infrastructure chemicals and minerals safely efficiently and more sustainably.

We are committed to embedding sustainability and inclusion into our operations our culture and our core business strategy. Learn more about how we are progressing against our ambitious 2030 targets: out more: requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a drug screening and comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may subject to those laws include proof of educational attainment employment history verification proof of work authorization criminal records identity verification credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third-party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.

AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business. AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.