Early Talent Strategy Manager

Jobtailor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior leader to design and govern enterprise-wide early talent strategies for interns, graduates, and apprentices. You will align pathways with strategic workforce plans and drive consistency, quality, and commercial discipline across programmes.

The role requires deep expertise in graduate and apprenticeship programmes, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence partners and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in shaping enterprise-wide early talent strategies, including graduate programmes and apprenticeships.
• Strong understanding of labour market trends and future workforce needs.
• Knowledge of apprenticeship policy, funding models, and levy utilisation.
• Ability to optimise pipeline effectiveness.
• Experience working with universities, government groups, industry bodies, and education partners.
• Strong analytical and commercial mindset.
• Ability to link early careers investment to measurable business outcomes.
• Experience leading multi-functional end-to-end graduate and intern strategies.
• Experience designing attraction, recruitment, and development approaches to build future leadership pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Manage the enterprise-wide strategy, standards, and guardrails for interns, apprentices, and graduates
• Integrate early talent pathways with wider talent ecosystem and strategic workforce plans
• Define minimum criteria and programme design principles to drive consistency, quality, and commercial discipline
• Provide strategic challenge and guidance to HR business partners and leaders on early talent investment decisions
• Strengthen development outcomes, conversion, retention, and alumni engagement
• Align early talent investment with strategic workforce priorities, future skills needs, and critical talent pipelines
• Maintain market insight and relationships with industry bodies, government groups, and education and training partners
• Represent the bank in key external forums
• Develop enterprise-level insights and benchmarking to measure programme effectiveness
• Optimise Apprenticeship Levy investment and drive high-quality programmes delivering measurable business value

Skills

Early Talent Strategy

Graduate & Apprenticeship Programme

Labour Market Analysis

Pipeline Optimization

Stakeholder Engagement

Strategic Workforce Planning

Analytics Mindset

Job description

• Manage the enterprise-wide strategy, standards, and guardrails for interns, apprentices, and graduates


• Integrate early talent pathways with the wider talent ecosystem and strategic workforce plans


• Define minimum criteria and programme design principles to drive consistency, quality, and commercial discipline


• Provide strategic challenge and guidance to HR business partners and leaders on early talent investment decisions


• Strengthen development outcomes, conversion, retention, and alumni engagement


• Align early talent investment with strategic workforce priorities, future skills needs, and critical talent pipelines


• Maintain market insight and relationships with industry bodies, government groups, and education and training partners


• Represent the bank in key external forums


• Develop enterprise-level insights and benchmarking to measure programme effectiveness


• Optimise Apprenticeship Levy investment and drive high-quality programmes delivering measurable business value

Requirements

• Deep expertise in shaping enterprise-wide early talent strategies, including graduate programmes and apprenticeships


• Strong understanding of labour market trends and future workforce needs


• Knowledge of apprenticeship policy, funding models, and levy utilisation


• Ability to optimise pipeline effectiveness


• Experience working with universities, government groups, industry bodies, and education partners


• Strong analytical and commercial mindset


• Ability to link early careers investment to measurable business outcomes


• Experience leading multi-functional end-to-end graduate and intern strategies


• Experience designing attraction, recruitment, and development approaches to build future leadership pipelines

Core Competencies

Demonstrates deep expertise in shaping enterprise-wide early talent strategies, including graduate programmes and apprenticeships, while linking early careers investment to measurable business outcomes. Possesses strong analytical skills and a commercial mindset to optimize pipeline effectiveness and drive high-quality programmes.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Early Talent Strategy Development


• Apprenticeship Policy Knowledge


• Labour Market Trend Analysis


• Multi-Functional Graduate Strategy Leadership


• Pipeline Effectiveness Optimization

Hard Skills

• Programme Design Principles


• Graduate Programme Management


• Apprenticeship Levy Utilisation


• Attraction and Recruitment Approaches


• Development Approach Design

Soft Skills

• Strategic Guidance


• Analytical Mindset


• Commercial Discipline


• Stakeholder Engagement


• Alumni Engagement

Industry Keywords

• Talent Ecosystem Integration


• Workforce Planning


• Market Insight


• Education Partnerships


• Industry Body Relationships