Senior Manager - Early Careers & Campus (Financial Services)

AMS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in London seeks an EC&C Senior Manager to oversee its financial services client partnership. In this strategic role, you will manage a growing team, ensure operational success, and lead campus recruitment strategies. Ideal candidates will possess strong leadership abilities and a deep understanding of campus recruitment solutions. This position offers a permanent contract and requires office presence 4-5 days a week.

Benefits

Full training and support

Flexible working

Competitive rewards and benefits package

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of Campus Recruitment Solutions.
• Ability to manage P&L and financial governance.
• Expertise in local early careers recruitment practices.

Responsibilities

• Oversee operational delivery and budget management.
• Manage a team and build trusted client relationships.
• Ensure compliance with risk management and legislation.

Skills

Campus Recruitment Solutions

Financial management and P&L

Motivating teams

Recruitment technology

Compliance knowledge

Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel

Tools

Recruitment technology

Excel

Job description

Overview

Role: EC&C Senior Manager (financial Services)

Location: London client site 4 - 5 days per week

Contract: Permanent

Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Join our World of Talent. At AMS, we believe in nurturing talent and fostering a culture where passion for success thrives. We encourage you to explore opportunities available within our organisation. Your talent is our greatest asset, and we're dedicated to providing avenues for you to reach its fullest potential. We do so by providing the environment, resources, networks, and career experiences essential for your progress. Take the next step in your career journey and discover our exciting opportunities.

The Role

Our role will give you the opportunity to oversee the EMEA region of one of our most high-profile client partnerships. You will have the opportunity to pioneer new solutions and innovative technologies and manage a growing team while partnering with a financial services client to provide Campus Services.

As an Early Careers & Campus Senior Manager you'll be accountable for operational delivery, budget management, team management, relationship management and leadership of the Early Careers & Campus function delivering services to the client; effectively leading and partnering closely with the campus leadership team.

You will also support the Senior Manager and Client Operations Director in creating the talent strategy for the account and driving the achievement of all contractually agreed quality thresholds, KPIs and client satisfaction targets.

Key Accountabilities

Things you will do:

• Be accountable for clearly communicating Strategic Account Vision and Plan to team
• Lead in-country and off-shore teams
• Unifies matrix resources behind shared priorities of productivity, account profitability and customer satisfaction
• Accountability for issue resolution, supporting the wider team to resolve at the appropriate level
• People - retention of AMS talent especially high potentials through performance management and continuous development
• Build strong and influential trusted partner relationships with identified senior client stakeholders
• Custodian of the client's Employee Value Proposition (EVP) ensuring the entire team can convey the proposition in a compelling way
• Effective, accurate and timely creation and delivery of Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs)
• Create and implement continuous improvement plans
• Monitor the account's Key Performance Indicators and forecasts
• Manage the scope, governance and compliance of the contract through team activity; identify and tackle scope creep
• Participate in operational work to address any gaps in coverage
• Ensure compliance - AMS Risk Management Framework, including the identification and management of risk; and ii) legislation affecting area of work

Skills & Experience

What you'll need:

Must haves

• Deep demonstrated understanding of Campus Recruitment Solutions
• Demonstrated capability to manage a P&L; working knowledge of contracts, financial levers, governance frameworks, business assurance and controls
• Experience of using subject matter experts as appropriate to deliver projects
• Ability to motivate team to deliver against set targets and drive organisation performance
• Subject matter expertise in local early careers recruitment practices such as campus marketing strategies, recruitment models and best practice recruitment
• Experience in the use of recruitment technology and recruitment databases
• Thorough understanding of legislation affecting area of work (e.g. age discrimination, compliance elements for contractors) and ability to guide and advise clients on legislation
• Proven ability to work in a highly complex matrix organization, managing large teams with a mix of direct/indirect/matrixed reports
• Proficient PowerPoint, Excel and reporting skills

Nice to haves

• Financial services campus recruitment experience
• Recruitment process outsourcing or consulting experience

Other

Every one of us plays a pivotal role in our success, whether engaging directly with clients or shaping the value we add behind the scenes. We offer flexibility, autonomy, and trust to work in a way that suits you. We focus on providing the means to meet, collaborate, and support each other.

We offer

• Full training and support
• High value and challenging work
• A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
• Flexible working
• A competitive reward and benefits package*
• The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world's leading recruitment companies

*Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.

Our culture of inclusion and belonging

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.

If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email [e-mail] or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

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We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long-term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.