Early Careers Lead

Location:

Templecombe, United Kingdom Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems. Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us.

At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you;

whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

To support UWS future growth demands we need to increase the size of our early careers talent pool, improve retention and develop exciting careers. You will be the UWS Early Careers Champion, forging strong working relationships with Functional Leads, Central Teams and Colleges to coordinate and manage existing early career processes whilst creating new opportunities to help make UWS a great place to work.

Developing a growth and retention strategy, creating localised attraction activities, improving the on-boarding experience and introducing new learning and development opportunities will be a priority for this role.

Reporting to the Head of Operations (Customer Delivery), you will work closely with the Thales Early Careers Team to ensure all learning meets required quality standards as well as our Heads of Capability, Engineering Resourcing Manager, Industry Early Careers Lead and the UWS Strategic HR Business Partner to ensure the correct application of the Early Careers strategy.

The role will need to build strong working relationships and partner with the UWS Heads of Discipline, Strategic HR Business Partner and the UK Talent, Learning and Culture Team including the UK Early Careers Team.

• Key suppliers
• Key customers where appropriate

• Senior Leaders
• Engineering Resourcing Manager
• UK HR CoE Teams

• Develop and deliver a medium to long-term vision for the UWS Early Careers Growth Strategy.
• Work closely with UWS Senior Leaders to ensure the development and implementation of a structured timetable of development activity and rotational placements
• Coordinate with Central Early Career and Learning Teams to develop and deliver training and development opportunities, which align to and support the overall strategic objectives of the UWS business.

• Lead the UWS business in creating the ‘Marketing Pitch’ to attract future talent principally at Early Careers level. This will include building on existing processes to create personalised targeted recruitment material and attending local events to promote exciting opportunities within our sites.
• Collaborate with Talent and Early Career Teams to create a plan for recruitment based on business needs and strategic workforce development plans, taking account of demographics, attrition and mobility factors.
• Develop the On-Boarding experience

• Work closely with key stakeholders to shape programmes that deliver against the organisational skills development needs and prepare early talent for substantive roles in line with organisational demand.
• Provide operational management and support of the Early Careers cohort ensuring it mirrors the overall Thales UK Early careers operating model.
• Work collaboratively with the education providers to ensure quality content for all courses and early careers progression through the course.

• Co-ordination of rotational placements across UWS and the Early…