12 months FTC, Employer Brand Manager, UKI BMC, Belfast or Derry, Londonderry

Employer Brand Manager – Northern Ireland (UKI BMC – 12 months FTC – Belfast)

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The Opportunity

We need to attract talent to serve our clients across assurance, consulting, tax and strategy. As an established employer brand specialist, you will reframe how talent views EY in Northern Ireland and land our employer value proposition to ensure we’re a place where candidates want to build their careers.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Helping to deliver an overarching Employer Brand strategy for EY in the UKI that closes brand gaps, improves brand attributes and builds a community of engaged, prospective talent.
• Collaborating closely with early‑careers and experienced‑hire employer brand campaign managers to align approaches, share insight and elevate overall campaign impact through a unified strategy.
• Leading an employer brand associate, setting a clear direction with objectives, and managing performance and development.
• Building strong relationships with the EY UK Talent team, the Northern Ireland leadership team and the business to understand objectives and context, and delivering employer brand activities that align with the broader brand direction.
• Working with recruitment and candidate‑engagement teams to review all candidate touchpoints and provide compelling EVP content to empower them to be powerful brand ambassadors.
• Working closely with our media agency to develop a paid strategy and deliver specific employer‑brand activities across the year.
• Owning reporting and measurement to demonstrate the impact of activity on brand metrics and drive continuous improvement.
• Maintaining up‑to‑date knowledge of recruiting, talent and employer‑brand trends in Northern Ireland to influence conversations and act as a trusted subject‑matter expert.

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Extensive knowledge of employer‑brand principles and employer value propositions.
• Track record of delivering campaigns across paid, earned and owned media channels with demonstrable impact through measurement.
• Strong project‑management skills and the ability to plan, prioritise and deliver multiple projects while meeting deadlines and stakeholder expectations.
• Ability to work within a global brand framework and adapt or create work that aligns to the master brand and has the strongest impact in the UK.
• Team‑leadership capabilities and a track record of developing high‑performing teams.
• Ability to identify audience insights to influence strategy and develop impactful activities.
• Strong stakeholder‑management skills with a visible presence in key conversations.
• Experience working with media and creative agency relationships.
• Resilience and the ability to respond well to change.
• Budget‑management experience.

To Qualify For The Role

• Experience working in an employer‑brand team, ideally in a professional services or large matrix‑structured environment.
• Strong understanding of the talent market in Northern Ireland.

What We Offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package that rewards individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working, career development, and a range of benefits: holidays, health and well‑being, insurance, savings, and a wide variety of discounts, offers and promotions.

• Continuous learning to develop the mindset and skills needed for future challenges.
• Success defined by you: tools and flexibility to make a meaningful impact in your own way.
• Transformative leadership and coaching to help you become the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture where you are embraced for who you are and empowered to support others.

Please Note

Prior to finalising your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information is kept confidential and is not used to evaluate your candidacy, but helps us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness.

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