Early Talent Programme Manager

Your role

The Early Talent Programme Manager will manage the end-to-end delivery of our Early Talent programmes in the UK work closely with our technical development team to align our programme experience in Ireland.

The role will deliver high quality, compliant, future-focused Early Talent programmes that aligned with our business needs, EMEA Early Talent strategy and future growth.

The Early Talent Programme Manager acts as a subject matter expert for UK&I Early Talent programmes and collaborates with key stakeholders and external education partners to ensure a great experience for our Early Talent and managers. 

What you'll do

Attract

• Develop and execute the attraction strategy to increase our Early Talent pipelines and brand awareness through digital platforms, schools’ engagement and external partnerships across our key locations.

• Deliver engaging outreach initiatives (campus events, careers fairs, insights days)

• Drive diversity focused attraction initiatives to boarded talent pipeline.

Recruit

• Lead the recruitment process across our Early Talent programmes, including supporting application screening, leading and design fair and inclusive assessment centers and interview frameworks.

• Monitor and optimize recruitment metrics (conversion rates, time to hire and candidate experience)

• Ensure an engaging and high-quality candidate experience throughout.

Onboarding

• Deliver structured onboarding and induction programmes tailored to early careers hires and the transition from ‘classroom to career.

• Partner with HR and business teams to ensure readiness for new joiners

• Deliver manager and mentor training in preparation for new early talent hires.

Grow

• Manage relationships with training providers, managers, technical guides, apprentices and key stakeholders.

• Manage the annual cohort of apprentices hires with both their Apprenticeship pathway and Digital Realty journey.

• Establish and maintain a robust framework for reviews, feedback and monitoring with early talent, managers, technical guides and stakeholders to drive ongoing support and individual development.

• Design and deliver soft skills training, facilitate workshops and build opportunities for skills growth.

• Create a community, networks and mentoring opportunities that aligned with the EMEA Early Talent strategy.

• Work with operations L&D, technical trainers and local teams for technical training programmes alignment and needs. 

• Champion a strong pastoral approach, creating a supportive and inclusive environment.

• Support and coach technical guides and managers, driving best practice.

• Track progression, performance and development outcomes.

Retain 

• Lead through data and feedback driven reporting and decision making. 

• Align and engage with industry forums to ensure continued best practice.

• Gather feedback (surveys, focus groups) to continuously improve the program.

• Support career pathways and internal mobility

   

What you'll need

• Proven experience in Early Talent development or recruitment is essential, ideally with a background delivering Apprenticeship programmes.

• Experience designing and managing scalable programs and processes.

• Experience in delivering diverse talent and inclusive hiring and attraction practices.

• Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills.

• Strong stakeholder management skills.

• Data driven mindset with the ability to analyse and improve outcomes

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter. 

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. 

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. 

Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us. 

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