Description
Howden Re is seeking an energetic and strategic Early Careers Talent Partner to join their team. As a key member of the learning and development team, you will champion university recruitment, internship, and graduate programs, serving as the primary brand ambassador for students and early careers professionals.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with the central Early Careers team to lead the U.S. early careers attraction strategy across internship, graduate, and insight-day programs.
- Build and manage relationships with target universities, actuarial and risk management programs, student organizations.
- Represent Howden Re at campus recruiting events, industry conferences, networking programs, and early talent forums.
- Design and support fair, inclusive, and effective candidate selection processes that identify future potential and business fit.
- Create and manage a structured onboarding and induction program that accelerates integration, engagement, and productivity.
- Ensure new hires establish strong connections across teams, networks, and business functions from day one.
- Coordinate mentoring, buddy programs, manager engagement, and cohort experiences that reinforce Howden Re's collaborative culture.
- Develop and manage a multi-year learning journey that combines formal training, professional qualifications, experiential learning, coaching, and on-the-job development.
- Build and continually enhance a comprehensive reinsurance curriculum covering key industry concepts, structures, and market dynamics.
- Partner with business leaders and subject matter experts across broking, analytics, actuarial, capital markets, advisory, and other functions to develop engaging and relevant learning experiences.
- Establish meaningful assessments, learning milestones, and progression checkpoints that demonstrate capability growth and readiness for advancement.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or similar.
- 5+ years of full lifecycle recruiting experience with a focus on university relations and campus recruiting.
- Proven ability to build and maintain strong partnerships with universities.
- Demonstrated success in managing high volume candidate pipelines.
- Progressive talent acquisition experience.
What we offer:
- A career that you define.
- Medical, dental, vision, a wide variety of wellbeing offers, competitive salary, unlimited PTO, 401k with company match, paid volunteer days and more.