Job Specifications
Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.
Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.
Through telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.
We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.
The Early Careers Team leads the creation and shaping of M&Gs early talent recruitment strategy and provides best in class development programmes to our interns, apprentices, and graduates. We partner with colleagues across M&G Plc to help us achieve our vision is to recruit and develop a diverse high calibre talent pool to shape the future success of M&G plc.
The Early Careers Recruitment and Development Consultant is responsible for supporting the team to deliver end-to-end recruitment and programme management of graduates and interns. From attraction events on campus, to designing learning interventions, mentoring graduates, and partnering senior stakeholders in the business, this is an exciting and varied role,
You will be responsible for delivering end-to-end graduate and internship programmes, including all recruitment, attraction, selection, induction delivery and programme design, and management.
Working closely with the Head of Early Careers and the wider Early Careers team, you will play a key role in shaping the future of our programmes, supporting our ambition for continuous improvement and innovation within our approach.
Key Responsibilities
Marketing and Attraction:
Design and execute the annual attraction plan, including events, work experience, career fairs, skill development sessions and university partnerships.
Develop key relationships both internally and externally with stakeholders, strategic external D&I partners, job boards, early career providers and governing bodies to ensure our graduate and internship programmes remain best in class across our industry.
Represent M&G Plc at internal and external recruitment events, including Careers Fairs, Skills Sessions, Networking events, and other virtual and in person events at Universities and Schools.
Organise and deliver insight events for undergraduates and school leavers. This includes marketing, management of applications, organisation of guest speakers, preparation of materials, refreshments, collating feedback, and communication post event. In addition, this includes tracking data on Insight events and candidate application and progression.
Manage our online and social media and communication strategy. Engaging external vendors to ensure content for our careers website and other external platforms are frequent, relevant, and considered (and delivered according to internal brand/compliance guidelines)
Assessment and Selection:
Be solely responsible for the end-to-end attraction, recruitment, assessment, and selection of a range of graduate and intern cohorts.
Contribute to our annual recruitment review. Conducting market research on industry trends, external events, and vendors we could engage with.
Manage the candidate experience, from pro-active engagement with prospective candidates and progressing through the recruitment process via the applicant tracking system and other methods,
Collaborate with, and advise stakeholders at all levels within the business, developing assessment materials including case studies, interview scripts and other assessment exercises.
Organise and facilitate Assessment Centres (in-person or virtual) for final stage candidates.
Deliver verbal feedback to candidates, extending offers and working with the central team to ensure all onboarding elements are completed in a timely manner.
Capture and analyse internal recruitment data to derive information and identify patterns and trends.
Quality assurance and on ongoing improvement of our assessment and selection process, in response to internal and industry developments
Programme Development & Management:
Collaborate with Senior Stakeholders across M&G Plc to design fit for purpose development programmes that deliver an early careers talent pool with appropriate credentials (including supporting the annual training needs reviews)
Manage relationships with professional bodies, training and apprenticeship providers, creating the right in-house support frameworks than enable learners to fully participate and achieve success in their qualifications.
Design, deliver and commission training workshops, skills sessions, and networking events for our programmes.
Design and deliver a comprehe
About the Company
M&G plc is a leading international savings and investments business, managing money for around 4.6 million individual clients and more than 900 institutional clients in 38 offices worldwide. As at 31 December 2024, we had PS345.9 billion of assets under management and administration. Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work.
With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, M&G plc has a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise...
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