Early Talent Strategy Manager

Location Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Job typePermanent \| Contract typeFull Time

Remote / On\-site Hybrid

You’ll spend some of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll also regularly work at your office or hub to collaborate with your colleagues.

Managerial / Technical Lead

This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day\-to\-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details.

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Job description
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This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as an Early Talent Strategy Manager

• We’ll look to you to manage the enterprise early talent strategy, building future\-ready talent pipelines aligned to our strategic workforce needs across our graduate, intern, and apprenticeships programmes


• Influence and lead the enterprise\-wide apprenticeship strategy and external ecosystem, maximising levy utilisation, and managing key external partnerships


• This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact by leading the graduate and intern strategy across attraction, university engagement, recruitment, and development


• This is a full\-time, hybrid position so you'll work from home some of the time, coming into the office at least two days per week to collaborate closely with your colleagues

As an Early Talent Strategy Manager, you’ll manage the enterprise\-wide strategy, standards, and guardrails for all early talent pathways, including interns, apprentices, and graduates. You’ll ensure these pathways integrate seamlessly with wider talent ecosystem and strategic workforce plans, strengthening the overall talent pipelines and building future skills. By setting clear definitions, minimum criteria, and programme design principles, you’ll also drive consistency, quality, and commercial discipline across all early talent programmes.

Alongside this, you’ll provide strategic challenge and guidance to human resources business partners and leaders on early talent investment decisions, supporting choices on which programmes to create, expand, reduce, or close.

In addition, you’ll focus on:

• Ensuring the early talent experience strengthens development outcomes, boosts conversion and retention, and builds a high\-performing alumni community


• Aligning early talent investment and programme focus with strategic workforce priorities, future skills needs, and critical talent pipelines


• Maintaining deep market insight and managing relationships with industry bodies, government groups, and education and training partners, representing the bank in key forums


• Developing enterprise\-level insights and benchmarking to inform strategy and measure programme effectiveness across conversion, retention, performance, diversity, and cost\-to\-hire outcomes


• Optimising our Apprenticeship Levy investment, aligning it with our commercial ambitions and driving high\-quality programmes that build future skills while delivering measurable value to the business

We’re looking for someone with deep expertise in shaping enterprise\-wide early talent strategies, including graduate programmes and apprenticeships. A strong understanding of labour market trends and future workforce needs is also essential, enabling you to anticipate how critical roles will evolve.

In addition, you’ll need:

• Knowledge of apprenticeship policy, funding models, and levy utilisation, with the ability to optimise pipeline effectiveness


• Experience working with universities, government groups, industry bodies, and education partners to establish strong external relationships and generate valuable market insight


• A strong analytical and commercial mindset, with the ability to link early careers investment to measurable business outcomes


• Experience leading multi\-functional end\-to\-end graduate and intern strategies, including designing attraction, recruitment, and development approaches to build future leadership pipelines

Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.

Tap each segment for details.

Your pay package

100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month.

\+10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension.

up to \+10% Benefit funding This is monthly funding paid towards a range of benefits you can choose from.

Your leave allowance

30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.

3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.

3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.

Total rewards package

Welcome to our Gogarburn hub
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Set in large grounds including beautiful woodland, Gogarburn offers a conference centre, a business school with hotel bedrooms, a restaurant, relaxing zen gardens, onsite parking, and excellent transport links.

Key facts:

• Surrounded by 85 acres of woodland


• Our carparks provide electric vehicle charging


• Opened in 2005

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