UKI Academic People Manager

GBA5 EntServ UK Limited; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in technology services is looking for an Early Career Development Manager to support academic programs across multiple locations in the UK. This role involves talent development, performance management, and building relationships to achieve hiring goals. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong project management skills and the ability to create engaging programs that align with company objectives while ensuring a high-performance culture.

Qualifications

• Strong background in talent development with passion for early careers.
• Experience in performance management and designing learning interventions.
• Excellent project management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the central academic programme managing early career development.
• Conduct performance reviews and continuous development for approx. 40 academics.
• Build strong working relationships with account/delivery teams.

Skills

Performance Management

Coaching

Communication

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Education

Experience in Talent Development

Job description

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You’ll take responsibility for supporting the central academic programme across the UKI, managing the academic programme across multiple locations. Partnering with a range of stakeholders, you’ll help shape our early career development, helping academics to immerse quickly into DXC and ensure they meet performance expectations in their roles. You will also support movement around the business, decisively putting the right talent in the right place at the right time.

Design and implement Academic programmes with the aim of raising the bar on academic capability across UKI PS

Support the annual academic recruitment drive to ensure the growth of the programme and align demand for resources in the annual intake with demand.

Continually assess resources and their allocation to specific project work and role, rotating resources when the need arises into new project roles which better align with their career aspirations.

Line management responsibilities for approx. 40 academics being responsible for performance reviews and continuous development

Onboard new starters

Coach and develop team members through training and development plans ensuring individuals are skilled in appropriate technologies for future projects

Enabling a higher performing team; accountability and ability to manage in high and low performing teams to drive a high-performance culture

Build strong working relationships with account/delivery teams (our internal customers) - working with our teams and business leaders to build and execute the strategic plan to deliver our hiring goals

Work with assignment managers within business unit to arrange and track rotations and learning development progress

Accountable for continuous view of the resources and their level of expertise in the relevant delivery capability to provide the appropriate resources to execute against project delivery.

Manage stakeholders to ensure good relations and effective communication.

Create and deliver internal and external communication with transparency.

Responsible for the overall management, effectiveness and performance of delivery of activities within the team and assigned function(s).

Customer satisfaction, being customer focused and committed to deliver exceptional service and value to our clients and embedding stakeholder management within your teams.

Reports to early career development programme lead; challenging, supporting and driving the overall business strategy and future growth and transformation.

Organise site-based training sessions and events

About you

You will have a strong background in talent development with a passion for Early Careers.

You will have experience in performance management, coaching / mentoring others and designing learning interventions.

You will be comfortable with both face to face and virtual facilitation with an audience from diverse backgrounds.

You will be a self-starter, keen to ensure every EC staff member is aligned with the right project work assignment & role.

You will be comfortable influencing and challenging senior stakeholders throughout the various business functions and be able to create something from scratch with your innovation and ideas.

You have the ability to build meaningful and engaging programmes that can be scaled.

You have knowledge of diversity issues affecting a company and ideas and an appetite of how to address them.

You will be tenacious and is determined to get things done in the face of change and ambiguity.

You have the experience of working at speed, ideally in an entrepreneurial culture.

You will be working in a fast-paced moving technology environment so we’re looking for someone who is flexible and wiling to grow within the role.

You have excellent project management and communication skills.

You will be able to travel and support on site at least 4 days per week

At DXC Technology, we believe strong connections and community are key to our success. Our work model prioritizes in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.