Early Careers Recruitment Manager – Americas

bp•Houston, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner. Join our People & Culture team as Early Careers Recruitment Manager – Americas! About the role: The Early Careers Recruitment Manager leads the design and delivery of strategies to attract, engage, pipeline, recruit and onboard high-calibre early careers talent (internships, apprenticeships and graduate roles) across the Americas. The role builds a compelling early careers proposition, underpinned by deep expertise in university relations, strengthening bp’s employer brand and ensuring a strong, future-ready talent pipeline. The manager reports to Head of Future Talent and leads a team of advisors, coordinators and team leads, partnering with senior internal collaborators, executive sponsors and external organisations (e.g. universities) to deliver recruitment outcomes aligned to bp’s strategic priorities. Acting as a trusted expert and coach, they enable the business to embed critical capabilities and future skills across the early careers lifecycle.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience designing and delivering end-to-end early careers recruitment strategies, covering attraction, engagement, assessment, selection, offer and onboarding across multiple channels and markets.
Deep understanding of the university landscape, academic structures and early careers market dynamics.
Translating global strategy into locally relevant approaches.
Proven experience leading and developing high-performing, geographically dispersed teams, delivering complex, high-volume recruitment campaigns.
Extensive knowledge of early careers recruitment operations, including systems, processes, assessments and pipelining models, with proven ability to manage budgets and optimise investment.
Ability to translate workforce plans into multi-year early careers pipelines with measurable hiring impact.
Capable of building trusted relationships with senior partners.
Analytical capability to use data to inform sourcing strategies.
Foster an inclusive, high-performance team culture and deliver results in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

Design and deliver market-leading early careers recruitment strategies aligned to the operating model, building a differentiated proposition.
Lead a high-impact university relations strategy to identify and partner with priority institutions. Design targeted engagement campaigns reaching key talent segments.
Build strong, trusted relationships shaping demand, influencing hiring strategies and embedding early careers priorities into business plans.
Use data and market intelligence to evaluate recruitment performance, candidate behaviour and selection outcomes.
Lead, develop and engage an impactful team of advisors and coordinators to deliver effective talent pipelines, driving excellence against agreed outcomes, metrics and service standards.
Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, ensuring efficient, compliant processes, high-quality hiring decisions and a positive, consistent candidate experience.
Maintain a strong external lens, using industry trends, competitor insight and discipline-specific intelligence to strengthen attraction strategies and sustain a competitive advantage.
Track and report on key recruitment metrics, using data to improve performance, optimise conversion and evaluate return on investment across university partnerships, engagement activities and campaigns.
Manage budgets effectively, prioritising and reallocating investment to maximise impact and return across attraction channels, partnerships and programmes.
Leverage recruitment technologies and digital tools to improve efficiency, enhance candidate engagement and enable data-driven decision-making.
Partner with in-market P&C leadership to ensure compliance with local regulation, governance standards and licence to operate requirements.
Work closely with Early Careers Development and regional peers to ensure a seamless end-to-end experience.