Early Careers Program Lead

Job Title: Early Careers Program Lead (North America)

Division: People and Sustainability

Reports To: As per Beazley's organization chart

Key relationships: Program Participants, Talent Acquisition, Business Partners, External Partners

Job Description:

The Learning and Development (L&D) team comprises a diverse mix of experts specialising in transformation, early careers, and regional generalists. We are seeking a dedicated Early Careers Programme Lead to oversee and enhance our early careers initiatives across North America. This role is crucial in supporting the development of junior talent and ensuring the success of our early careers programmes.

Areas of focus include:

• Manage the P28 Programme:Oversee the Underwriting Graduate Programme (P28), managing and coaching talent throughout their time in the programme. Act as a visible role model, continuously seeking to improve the programme, and actively engage with alumni to track their career progression.

• US Intern Programme Management:Manage and coach interns, ensuring the intern programme serves as a pipeline for the P28 Programme.

• Programme Opportunities:Work with the Early Careers Manager to identify and develop new programme opportunities in the region.

• Recruitment Support:Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to support the recruitment process, including participating in interviews, assessment centres, and attending career fairs.

• Diversity and Inclusion:Embed diversity and inclusion into all early careers initiatives, ensuring a diverse pipeline of future leaders.

• Operational Excellence:Manage the end-to-end process for in-region talent, including onboarding, induction, development, and transition from early careers programmes, ensuring a seamless and enriching experience for participants.

• Stakeholder Collaboration:Partner with internal stakeholders, including Talent Acquisition, business leads, and People Business Partners, to align program objectives with business needs and ensure a seamless candidate experience.

• Talent Development:Coach early-in-career talent throughout their development programmes, offering guidance and feedback to support their career goals and skill expansion.

• Data and Analytics:Utilise data insights to support programme evolutions, focusing on opportunities to expand across regions, product lines, business areas, and talent pools.

• External Relationships:Develop and maintain relationships with key universities and external organisations to support talent attraction and programme success. Manage day-to-day relationships with regional suppliers.

• Programme Evaluation:Run reports and analyse data to feed into the L&D dashboard, ensuring transparency and continuous improvement of early careers programmes.

• Training and Development:Create and deliver training programmes that support the development of talent within and across all Early Careers Development Programmes, partnering with the broader L&D team to align goals and messaging.

• Marketing and Branding:Ensure all early careers internal and external marketing content is up-to-date and continuously evolves, enhancing the employer brand and candidate experience.

• Partnership and Upskilling: Collaborate with our programme manager, wider L&D team in sharing learning, keeping knowledge up-to-date.

Personal specification:

Skills and competencies:

• Programme Management:Proven experience in managing early careers or similar development programmes.

• Stakeholder Management:Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and engage internal and external stakeholders.

• Data-Driven:Proficient in using data to drive decisions and measure programme success.

• Creativity and Innovation:Ability to design and implement innovative learning solutions that engage early careers talent.

• Diversity and Inclusion:Commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion within early careers programmes.

• Digital Proficiency:Comfortable with digital tools and platforms that enhance learning and development.

• Communication:Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present ideas clearly and effectively.

General:

It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to Beazley's core values - Being Bold, Striving for Better, and Doing the Right Thing - as they contribute to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external customers. We also expect Beazley employees to:

• Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct which incorporates the PRA and FCA Conduct.

• Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Culture & People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system.

• Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers.

• Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.

• Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, the Culture & People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. This may include, amongst others, Beazley's underwriting control standards, Beazley's claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management.

• Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system. These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.

Who We Are:

Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years' experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to inspire our clients and people with the confidence and freedom to explore, create and build - to enable businesses to thrive. Our clients want to live and work freely and fully, knowing they are benefitting from the most advanced thinking in the insurance market. Our goal is to become the highest performing sustainable specialist insurer.

Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

Our Culture

We have a wonderful mix of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds at Beazley with over 2,000 of us working around the world. Employee's diversity, experience and passion allow us to keep innovating and moving forward, delivering the best. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that is big on collaboration, diversity of thought and personal accountability. Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people and customers.

• Be bold
• Strive for better
• Do the right thing

Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organization in touch with the changing world around us - our ambitious inclusion & diversity and sustainability targets are testament to this.

We are a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive working environment. We actively encourage and expect applications from all backgrounds. Our commitment to fostering a supportive and dynamic workplace ensures that every employee can thrive and contribute to our collective success.

Explore a variety of networks to assist with professional and/or personal development. Our Employee Networks include:

• Beazley RACE - Including, understanding and celebrating People of Colour
• Beazley SHE - Successful, High potential, Empowered women in insurance
• Beazley Proud - Our global LGBTQ+ community
• Beazley Wellbeing - Supporting employees with their mental wellbeing
• Beazley Families - Supporting families and parents-to-be

We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you all the tools you need to drive your own career here, such as:

• Internal Pathways (helping you grow into an underwriting role)
• iLearn (our own learning & development platform)
• LinkedIn Learning
• Mentorship program
• External qualification sponsorship
• Continuing education and tuition reimbursement
• Secondment assignments

The Rewards

• The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, dynamic organization
• Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related bonus
• Competitively priced medical, dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life, and short- and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with 5% company match and immediate vesting
• 22 days PTO (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), 11 paid holidays per year, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs
• Up to $700 reimbursement for home office setup
• Free in-office lunch, travel reimbursement for travel to office, and monthly lifestyle allowance
• Up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Up to 2.5 days paid annually for volunteering at a charity of your choice
• Flexible working policy, trusting our employees to do what works best for them and their teams

Salary for this role will be tailored to the successful individual's location and experience. The expected compensation range for this position is $80,000-$90,000 per year plus discretionary annual bonus.

Don't meet all the requirements? At Beazley we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly align with every requirement and qualification in the job specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles.