Early Career Talent Acquisition Lead

UNKNOWN; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 114,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Marsh Corporate is seeking an experienced Early Career Talent Acquisition Lead to shape strategy and delivery of early career hiring across the US and Canada. You will lead a team, influence stakeholders, and build a scalable hiring model with a hands-on approach during peak periods.

This hybrid role requires a bachelor’s degree, 7+ years in early career hiring, and 3+ years of people management. You will partner with business leaders and universities to attract diverse early talent.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum of 7 years of Early Career hiring experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of people management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the early career recruiting strategy across the US and Canada.
• Manage and develop a team by setting priorities, goals, and expectations.
• Provide leadership to the early career hiring team and align with stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy development

People management

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

Communication

Operational excellence

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Recruitment platform

AI tools for recruitment

Job description

Company

Marsh Corporate

Description

At Marsh, Early Career hiring is a critical driver of our future talent pipeline. We are seeking an experienced Early Career Talent Acquisition Lead to drive the strategy and delivery of Early Career hiring across the US and Canada.

In this role, you will help shape how we attract, assess, and hire early career talent, while supporting consistent, inclusive, and high-quality candidate experience. You will lead a team and play a hands-on role in delivering high-quality recruiting outcomes.

This is a leadership position for someone who brings both strategic thinking and day-to-day execution, with the confidence to influence stakeholders, improve processes, and help build a scalable early career hiring model.

This is a hybrid position with an expectation of working in a local office at least three days per week.

We will count on you to

• Lead the early career recruiting strategy across the US and Canada, aligning hiring plans to business priorities and talent needs.
• Manage and develop a team by setting priorities, goals, and expectations, and supporting team performance and development.
• Provide leadership to the early career hiring team and build on strategy in alignment with stakeholders and team.
• Responsible for operational excellence.
• Partner with business leaders, hiring managers, and people partners to understand hiring needs, confirm role requirements, and support hiring decisions.
• Oversee early career sourcing strategy, event planning, interview design, assessment, and offer management.
• Leverage recruitment platform and build on relationships with universities and early talent communities.
• Implement structured and inclusive hiring processes that support quality, efficiency, and consistency.
• Use data and insights to track performance (e.g., pipeline health, conversion rates, time to fill, acceptance rates, candidate experience) and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Support a positive candidate experience and help ensure recruiting interactions reflect our culture and values.
• Contribute to broader talent acquisition priorities by sharing best practices and partnering across the recruiting organization.
• Operate effectively at both the strategic and execution levels- able to set direction while remaining hands-on with day-to-day delivery during peak periods
• Focus on building strategy, including candidate and stakeholder engagement, and integration with the broader Talent Acquisition organization.
• This role will partner closely with the Early Career Hub for operational excellence and Early Career Program team.

What you need to have

• A bachelor's degree
• A minimum of 7 years of Early Career hiring experience.
• A minimum of 3 years of people management experience, including setting early career hiring direction and building on performance.

What makes you stand out

• Stakeholder management skills and experience driving and aligning strategy with key stakeholders, including senior leaders, TA colleagues and Early Career Program team.
• Experience working in a matrixed and collaborative environment, that is agile and can adapt.
• Experience shaping Early Career hiring strategy, with a focus on stakeholder experience.
• Ability to use recruiting data to inform decisions and recommendations.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, and organizational skills.
• Interest in developing early talent and building long-term pipeline capability.
• Thrive and be motivated by an environment that embraces AI and technology-enabled tools.

Why join us?

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact on colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well‑being.

The applicable base salary range for this role is $114,400 to $228,800.

The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, education, and any applicable minimum wage requirements. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.

We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package which includes health and welfare benefits, tuition assistance, 401K savings and other retirement programs as well as employee assistance programs.

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit corporate.marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment.

We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one "anchor day" per week on which their full team will be together in person.