Careers Transformation Manager, Learning and Talent

As Early Careers Transformation Manager, you will act as a key driver of our transformation activity, playing a key role in shaping and operationalising our Early Careers and Professional Education transformation agenda. You will translate strategic vision into actionable programmes, ensuring seamless execution and measurable impact across all service lines, working collaboratively with colleagues, stakeholders, and external partners to ensure every learner's experience is consistent, inclusive and aligned with business priorities. You will be responsible for coordinating and delivering best-in-class learning experiences, embedding continuous improvement, and driving operational excellence. Your work will directly influence how new joiners experience Deloitte from their very first day, helping them feel confident, connected, and ready to thrive. As part of our professional education transformation, you will work closely with stakeholders including across HR Services and Student Advisory Services to ensure we are delivering a best in class service for our student population. You will work closely with senior stakeholders, including steering committees and business leaders, to brief, influence, and align on the future direction of our professional education offering. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will ensure that transformation activities are well governed, data driven and responsive to both internal and external drivers of change. Transformation Programme Management

• Supporting the strategic planning, governance, and execution of transformation programmes
• Drive the operationalisation of the Early Careers and Professional Education strategy, ensuring alignment with firmwide priorities and business needs
• Coordinate across cross functional teams and to manage complex programme portfolios
• Develop and maintain governance frameworks, steering committee papers, and executive updates to ensure transparency, accountability and informed decision-making
• Support onboarding to ensure seamless transitions for new joiners and a connected experience from offer to induction completion
Stakeholder Management & Relationship Building
• Build and nurture trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, service lines, and external partners, acting as a key point of contact for transformation activities.
• Influence and brief senior leaders through strategy papers, presentations and data-driven insights to shape the approach to early careers and professional education.
• Champion collaboration and alignment across teams, ensuring a unified approach to programme delivery and transformation.
• Work in collaboration with our central services and suppliers to ensure holistic planning and execution of any transformation activity
• Act as a key point of contact for operational issues, escalating risks and sharing best practice across the Early Careers portfolio.
• Data Driven Decision Making & Continuous Improvement
• Lead the capture, analysis, and presentation of data to measure programme impact, inform strategic decisions, and drive continuous improvement.
• Help to develop and oversee dashboards and reporting mechanisms to evidence success, track KPIs, and share best practice across the portfolio.
• Translate insight into actionable improvements, ensuring programmes evolve in line with learner needs and business priorities.
• Leverage data and external benchmarking to proactively identify opportunities for innovation, digital solutions, and enhanced learner support.
Governance, Risk & Wellbeing
• Ensure robust governance, compliance, and quality assurance across transformation activities, maintaining alignment with regulatory standards and Deloitte values.
• Embed principles of psychological safety, inclusion, and wellbeing into programme design and delivery.
• Monitor spend, manage risks and ensure issues are escalated and resolved promptly.
• Stay informed of evolving trends and compliance requirements across learning, inclusion, and wellbeing to continuously enhance programme delivery.
  
  You're a natural organiser who thrives in complex environments, balancing empathy, pace and precision to create connection and impact. You bring clarity to ambiguity, helping colleagues move from uncertainty to confidence. You're commercially aware, operationally strong, and motivated by progress and purpose. You should care about our early careers population, and how we support them and help them develop. This role should be a means for you to do what you love and make a difference., Proven experience in programme management, transformation, or chief of staff roles within a large or matrixed organisation
• Experience in managing governance structures, steering committees and executive communications
• Experience managing budgets, third party vendors and vendors, ensuring commercial value and compliance with procurement processes
• Data analysis and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex insights into actionable recommendations.
• Awareness of safeguarding, risk and compliance requirements
• Interest of professional education pathways, apprenticeships, apprenticeship levy and regulatory standards that govern early career learning environments
Skills and Behaviours
• Strong presentation and data analysis skills - you are able to present complex ideas and data in a clear way to a range of stakeholders
• Organised and accountable - you manage multiple priorities calmly and deliver high quality outcomes ensuring no detail is overlooked
• Experience of large scale project and change management skills, including agile methodologies
• Collaborative communicator - you build strong working relationships including senior stakeholders, across teams and service lines, engaging stakeholders with clarity and professionalism
• Inclusive and empathetic - you promote psychological safety and wellbeing, creating environments where every learner can thrive
• Commercially aware - you understand the financial and operational levers that influence programme delivery, balancing value, quality and efficiency, ensuring solutions deliver ROI for Deloitte.
• Digitally confident - you embrace technology and data insight to improve learner experience, streamline processes and inform decision making.
• Adaptable and improvement-focused - you anticipate challenges, respond flexibly and continuously seek better ways of working
• Dependable team player - you model Deloitte's values of integrity, respect and collaboration to foster a positive culture of trust and accountability
  
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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. Our Early Careers and Professional Education teams play a key role in building the skills of our future leaders as they progress through their Early Careers pathways. This is your chance to help shape and deliver learning experiences that define how our people begin their Deloitte journey, ensuring every programme runs seamlessly, scales effectively, and delivers measurable impact Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. 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