Deloitte
Senior Manager, Head of Early Careers Delivery, Learning & Development, HR
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At Deloitte, we’re re-imagining how the next generation of professionals learn, grow and lead.
Deloitte is one of the largest student employers in the UK. Every year, we recruit around 4,000 students into our graduate, apprentice and work experience programmes. These experiences set the foundation for how our people learn, connect, and build careers with impact. We’re now taking that experience to the next level, by blending human skills potential with innovation to prepare our people to thrive in a rapidly changing workplace.
We’re now looking for a Head of Early Careers Delivery to help evolve our offer. This is an important and high impact role where you will drive the operational delivery of our market leading Early Careers portfolio. This is your chance to lead learning experiences that define how our people begin their Deloitte journey, ensuring every programme runs seamlessly, scales effectively and delivers measurable impact. Your leadership will turn strategy into action, embed scalable delivery frameworks, and ensure Deloitte continues to set the standard for best in class Early Career learning.
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As Head of Early Careers Delivery, you will lead the operational delivery and implementation of Deloitte's Early Careers learning portfolio. You will be responsible for ensuring that Deloitte's Early Careers strategy is translated into high quality, scalable and measurable learning experiences. This includes leading the delivery function, driving operational excellence across programmes, and ensuring the firm's future learning model is successfully implemented across all Early Careers populations.
This is a critical leadership role at a time of significant evolution. Deloitte is investing in the future of early careers learning through programme redesign, enhanced learner experiences and new approaches to capability development. You will play a central role in turning these ambitions into reality.
Working closely with Early Careers Leads, Professional Education, business technical learning teams and senior stakeholders across the firm, you will ensure that workforce requirements, learning strategy and curriculum design are translated into operational delivery that delivers measurable learner and business outcomes.
You will lead a team of Delivery Managers aligned to key business portfolios, creating consistency, quality and operational resilience across the function. Whilst Delivery Managers retain strong portfolio alignment, you will provide firmwide leadership, ensuring resources, standards and learner experiences are aligned to both business and strategic priorities.
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Beyond operational leadership, you will act as the firm's implementation lead for major learning initiatives. You will drive adoption of the future learning model, embed common skills across Early Careers pathways, oversee curriculum implementation and ensure that learning experiences are integrated, scalable and sustainable.
This is a high trust leadership role operating at the intersection of learning strategy, workforce capability, operational delivery and business performance.
Responsibilities
Operationalising our strategy
- Lead the operational delivery of Deloitte's Early Careers learning portfolio, ensuring programmes are executed consistently and effectively whilst balancing business-specific requirements with firmwide priorities
- Drive implementation of Deloitte's future learning model, embedding the firm's professional skills curriculum and ensuring curriculum, programme and learner experience changes are successfully translated into scalable delivery
- Lead operational implementation of firmwide learning initiatives, ensuring strategic investment is translated into measurable learner and business outcomes.
- Build and evolve delivery frameworks, operating models and ways of working that support learner success, business outcomes and long term portfolio sustainability
- Own operational readiness and implementation planning for major programme, curriculum and learning experience changes
Leading delivery excellence
- Lead and develop the Delivery team, creating a high performing function with strong portfolio knowledge, consistent standards and operational resilience
- Balance delivery resources across portfolios and strategic priorities, ensuring the right capability is focused on the highest value activity
- Drive continuous improvement across programme delivery, learner experience and operational performance
Learning portfolio and curriculum implementation
- Partner with Early Careers Leads, Professional Education and business technical learning teams to translate workforce requirements and learning strategy into high quality learner experiences
- Lead implementation of curriculum and learning experience changes, ensuring technical, professional and professional skills learning are integrated into coherent learner journeys
- Create consistency across the portfolio whilst preserving service-line differentiation and meeting business specific requirements
Driving impact through data and insight
- Use learner, delivery and business insight to measure impact, identify opportunities for improvement and inform future investment decisions
- Support demonstration of programme effectiveness, learner progression, capability development and return on investment across the Early Careers portfolio
- Simplify and streamline how delivery operates, reducing duplication and friction while improving learner and business experience
- Continuously foster innovation in our approach to reflect best practice and emerging learning technologies
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Nurturing strong relationships
- Act as the operational counterpart to Early Careers Leads, creating alignment between business priorities and delivery execution
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, providers and learning partners to drive accountability, influence decisions and ensure successful delivery of strategic priorities
- Lead, coach and develop teams and subject matter experts, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement
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You are an experienced learning and delivery leader who can translate strategy into operational reality. You combine delivery leadership, learning expertise and change implementation experience, creating clarity in complex environments and bringing people together behind a shared vision.
Experiences
- Significant experience leading large scale learning, talent or workforce capability programmes within a complex organisation
- Experience leading implementation of learning strategy, curriculum transformation or change initiatives
- Experience balancing business specific requirements with firmwide priorities and influencing senior stakeholders to achieve alignment
- Strong financial and commercial acumen, including responsibility for budgets, suppliers and investment decisions
- Experience using learner and business insight to evaluate impact and drive continuous improvement
- Understanding of professional education pathways, apprenticeships and regulated learning environments
Skills and Behaviours
- Strategic executor – able to translate ambitious strategy into practical, scalable delivery that achieves measurable outcomes
- Credible leader – brings clarity, judgement and direction in complex environments, creating confidence across teams and senior stakeholders
- Learning and workforce focused – understands how learning, capability development, performance and workforce outcomes connect
- Influential collaborator – builds strong relationships across business, learning, talent and operational teams to achieve shared outcomes
- Commercial and data-led – uses evidence, insight and business impact measures to guide decisions and demonstrate value
- People developer – creates environments where individuals and teams can perform at their best whilst fostering accountability, inclusion and continuous improvement
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Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.
Human Resources
At Deloitte, Human Resources is transforming. We are already an award-winning HR team but we’re not resting there. We want to make an impact that matters for our people, our clients and for society. To achieve this, we're firmly embedding HR into the business, advising and innovating along with our business leaders.
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