Job Description :

Title: Early Careers Manager (12 month FTC)

Location: Edinburgh or London

Type of role: Full time - 12 month FTC

About Us

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

About the role

Our performance ambition calls for us to create the best performing most trusted and respected consumer products company in the world. This requires us to guarantee our plans with the right people and capabilities. Talent Engagement is the global function to attract, assess and select external and internal talent that is the best fit for our culture and roles as well as strengthen succession pools to enhance organisational performance through ensuring hiring decisions result in brilliant talent moves and acquisition.

The Early Career Manager is responsible for a critical part of our talent strategy - we need to attract and hire the best early career talent across Europe to enable us to grow the future leaders of tomorrow. The Early Career Manager is accountable for working across our core markets to build on-campus presence and activity to grow the employer brand and to attract the type of talent that will thrive in our environment adding new value from day one.

This is an individual contributor role, collaborating closely with their Early Careers colleagues.

Role Responsibilities

There are a few key areas that the Early Careers Manager will directly manage with impact:

• Implement the European Early Career strategy to attract, engage, assess and hire the best diverse talent available in the market
• Build strong relationships across multiple collaborator groups, including different cultures/markets, internal & external including key graduate universities, diverse partnerships and academia
• Highly attuned to the Early Careers industry, with an ability to bring the outside in to help shape thinking and hone a gold standard
• The Early Career Manager operates as a critical partner and SME providing guidance to peers and collaborators, to ensure the global Early Careers strategy is relevant in the geography, market and function.
• Partnering and driving across the tailored year-round attraction strategy, road-map and timeline to be implemented in market to enable quality sourcing
• Participate and influence the creation and implementation of graduate campaigns with the Global Employer Brand team
• Creating and managing the framework for Campus Engagement that enables the implementation of attraction initiatives in-market
• Customize and deploy relevant brand assets and campaign materials that align to early career roles
• Engaging and collaborating with relevant internal stakeholders to understand and bring to life individual functional and/or market priorities
• Identifying relevant online interactive platforms to drive attraction strategies that allows for proactive engagement with potential candidates
• Build awareness on diversity initiatives through collaboration with professional student organizations and key target universities
• Managing and/or providing support of graduate recruitment budget to ensure cost efficiencies and compliance with attraction campaigns and graduate assessments

You’ll ideally have some experience in the following areas

• Early Career talent hiring strategy and execution across complex businesses
• Experience in building and promoting an employer brand.
• Ability to build great sustainable relationships and a connected resourcing community
• Ability to deploy programmes and processes remotely and through others.
• A continuous improvement mentality, always evaluating programmes and tools and identifying areas for improvement.
• Ability to engage with to the business and turn market intelligence into new programmes that suit all market needs

Working with Us

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package.

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

 Be you with us!

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