Emerging Talent Manager

Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

Want to turbo charge and drive the development and future capabilities and skills agenda for the Graduate and Intern landscape at Centrica? You'll be focused on delivering impactful change that ensures emerging talent is showcased across the organisation to support business challenges and collaborate with the organisation in its transition to energising a greener, fairer future. You'll also be responsible for making sure the schemes are set up for success and delivering a seamless experience, ensuring we meet Centrica’s future capabilities and skills requirements for today and tomorrow.

Accountabilities

• Manage the future capabilities and skills agenda, partnering with our Learning & Development (L&D) function, delving into the capabilities and skills required to establish clear learning pathways for our graduates and interns, including internal L&D initiatives as well as external opportunities such as apprenticeships

• Working with managers to understand what good looks like, with specific requirements per stream, with defined linkage to Centrica’s capability and Talent matrixes

• Support new suites of data for the function, working with internal stakeholders to evolve the data reporting within the space and oversee a clear structure of presenting regular data trends, metrics and milestones to the business to better understand our Emerging Talent landscape of today and what opportunities we have to further develop our talent for tomorrow

• Collaborate with workforce planning leads to support in providing insights into our Emerging Talent capability and skills landscape to support workforce of the future

• Spearhead “Brilliant Basics” ensuring we drive consistent and seamless experiences for our graduates, interns, year in industry and identifying areas to improve, simplify and enhance the experiences in partnership with Emerging Talent networks

• Oversee interventions to ensure we retain talent, consider what we need to do to achieve this and improve attrition measures

• Implement an alumni proposition, leveraging existing insights of Top Talent and emerging talent mobility across the business to promote positive experiences, learnings and opportunities to navigate a squiggly career

• Oversee and manage graduate placement reviews and changes

• Oversee and embed best practice for graduate performance and talent milestones including objective setting, regular performance and career conversations, talent assessment and succession planning, aligned to group approach

• Support Managers throughout the graduate and intern journey

• Shape and facilitate working groups based around simplifying and enhancing the graduate and intern experience

• Establish insight into enhancing the Emerging Talent proposition, attending external events, building a strong external network, performing market research, and providing recommendations to support the wider vision

Competencies

• Passion for early and emerging talent and driving positive change in this space

• Good understanding of the Emerging Talent marketplace

• Good understanding of the Emerging Talent graduate and intern schemes within Centrica and across industry

• A commercial acumen that can lean into a variety of business needs

• Strong facilitation and presentation skills able to flex to differing audiences, internal and external

• A resilient and curious nature, eager to learn from challenges and look to continuously improve and evolve our approaches

• A grasp of growth mindset and bringing that to the Emerging Talent space

• Data driven with good excel skills, an ability to understand data, find trends and use other software tools to support this

• Good skills across Microsoft packages including Power Point, MS Teams and Outlook

• Ability to manage multiple projects from start to completion simultaneously

• Strong understanding of risk management and able to manage risk adequately

• Strong time management and organisational skills

• Ability to communicate concisely and calmly with stakeholders both internally and externally from varying cultures and at different levels

• Ability to work as part of a small team and individually

• Desire to personally develop and continuously improve

• Can work to strategy and long-term vision, as well as have a strong agile nature, able to be respond to business and operational needs

• Passion for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and an ambition to embed our DEI practices within Emerging Talent

• Experience of operational management and meeting customer/client needs, whilst maintaining a responsive, high-level service when working under pressure

Work Experience

• Experience of working across emerging talent schemes

• A track record of high performance

• Have achieved clear demonstratable impact elsewhere

• Experience in managing multiple projects

• Clear ambition and passion for Early Careers/Emerging Talent

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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