# Early Careers and DEI Manager

**Company**: Argos
**Location**: London, London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive Plus Benefits
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

As Early Careers & DEI Manager, you’ll own and develop the Argos Early Careers strategy and proposition, creating connected pathways across graduate programmes, apprenticeships, work experience, Trainee Manager programmes, and entry-level roles.

You’ll work with People Partners and business leaders to understand future workforce, skills, and capability needs, then translate these into sustainable talent pipelines that support priority areas, succession, and longer-term career progression.

Day-to-day, you’ll design and oversee programmes from attraction and selection through onboarding, learning, development, and progression. You’ll manage apprenticeship strategy and governance, support effective use of the Apprenticeship Levy, and work with providers and internal stakeholders to ensure high-quality outcomes.

You’ll develop education, charity, and community partnerships, create accessible routes into employment, and embed inclusive practice across talent and recruitment activity. Using programme data, participant feedback, and business insight, you’ll track retention, progression, and outcomes and turn what you learn into practical improvements.

You’ll bring experience from Early Careers, Talent, Recruitment, Learning & Development, or a related People discipline, including hands-on involvement in developing or managing graduate, apprenticeship, or other early careers programmes.

You’ll be comfortable turning strategy into deliverable programmes, managing projects and partnerships, and working across a varied stakeholder group that includes senior leaders, People Partners, operational teams, and external providers.

**Essential criteria:**

- Evidence of developing or managing at least one structured early careers pathway

- Practical knowledge of apprenticeships and the Apprenticeship Levy

- Experience of applying inclusive recruitment or DEI practices

- Experience of managing programmes or projects involving multiple internal and external stakeholders

- Ability to use programme data, participant feedback, and business insight to evaluate outcomes

**Benefits:**

- Colleague discount: 10% on shopping online and in-store at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU, and Habitat

- Pensions scheme and life cover

- Performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary

- Annual holiday allowance

- Private healthcare

- Season ticket loans

- Interest-free car loan of up to £10k

- Cycle to work scheme

- Health cash plans

- Salary advance

- Access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers

- Up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave

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## Skills

### Required
- Early Careers
- Talent
- Recruitment
- Learning & Development
- Apprenticeships
- DEI
- Programme management
- Stakeholder management
- Data analysis

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