Graduate Services Lead

GP Strategies Corporation is one of the world's leading talent transformation providers. By delivering award-winning learning and development solutions, we help organizations transform through their people and achieve meaningful change. GP Strategies has delivered our innovative consulting, learning services, and talent technology solutions to over 6,000 organizations globally.

We’re looking to hire a Graduate Services Lead to be responsible for supporting Graduates, Interns and summer placement students for all engineering programmes across the UK. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you’ll drive co-ordination of the programmes and associated events. This is a hybrid role, based at the client’s development centre in Derby. Occasional travel to other locations around the UK is also required.

• Support new recruits by delivering the corporate induction and ‘keep warm’ sessions to introduce them to their key contacts and give an overview of their programme.
• Co-ordinate the corporate induction event including coordinating guest speakers, booking venues and facilities and monitoring enrolment.
• Monitor the Site and HS&E inductions, ensuring records are updated appropriately and timely, and are retained for audit functions as required.
• Work with the client to facilitate the allocation of Career Coaches and Buddies.
• Run standardised meetings with Coaches and Buddies, to ensure a consistent approach, keeping records of attendance and action points.
• Manage and facilitate the annual standardised Graduate celebration events, ensuring all learners across UK sites experience a consistent and high-quality celebration upon successfully completing their programme.
• Create and implement training plans from inception of the Graduate & Intern programmes, working closely with the Emerging Talent Program Leads and the relevant business.
• Collate performance ratings and support the calibration across cohorts.
• Manage the annual graduate pay review data process.
• Be the central point of contact and escalation for all Graduate and Intern queries, managing all operational queries and escalating to the client team when required.
• Act as the first point of contact for internal business operations, including Career Coaches and gig managers, maintaining regular communication regarding programme processes and timelines.
• Record and manage accurate data and ensure that requested data reports are delivered within the specified times, adhering to a right-first-time approach.
• Attend site/business operational governance boards on a quarterly basis as required.

• Experience working in a training organisation/working with graduate or similar programmes.
• Excellent administration and data management skills.
• Excellent Microsoft Office experience (Word, Advanced Excel and PowerPoint).
• Client Services experience.
• A self-motivated and effective team player who possesses excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Car owner and driver with a willingness to travel to other locations (Bristol, London and Scotland every 8-12 weeks).
• Professional attitude.

With more than 4000 employees in over 30 countries, diversity at GP Strategies is second nature! Beyond our locations, our culture focuses on performance and revolves around respect, fairness, and working collaboratively to achieve our goals. We support our People, no matter who they are or where they are from, because we all have valuable and unique perspectives and approaches.

GP Strategies is committed and proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other federally protected class.