Early Careers Recruitment Manager - Americas

Entity:

People, Culture & Communications

Job Family Group:

HR Group

Job Description:

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. 

What you will deliver:

• Strategy & Proposition: Design and deliver market-leading early careers recruitment strategies aligned to the operating model, building a differentiated proposition.

• University & Talent Engagement: Lead a high-impact university relations strategy to identify and partner with priority institutions. Design targeted engagement campaigns reaching key talent segments.

• Stakeholder & Executive Engagement: Build strong, trusted relationships shaping demand, influencing hiring strategies and embedding early careers priorities into business plans. 

• Performance & Insight: Use data and market intelligence to evaluate recruitment performance, candidate behaviour and selection outcomes.

• Team Leadership: 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. 

• Recruitment Delivery & Experience: Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, ensuring efficient, compliant processes, high-quality hiring decisions and a positive, consistent candidate experience. 

• Market Intelligence & Benchmarking: Maintain a strong external lens, using industry trends, competitor insight and discipline-specific intelligence to strengthen attraction strategies and sustain a competitive advantage. 

• Metrics, Reporting & Investment: 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. 

• Budget & Investment Management: Manage budgets effectively, prioritising and reallocating investment to maximise impact and return across attraction channels, partnerships and programmes. 

• Technology & Digital Enablement: Leverage recruitment technologies and digital tools to improve efficiency, enhance candidate engagement and enable data-driven decision-making.

• Compliance & Localisation: Partner with in-market P&C leadership to ensure compliance with local regulation, governance standards and licence to operate requirements. 

• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with Early Careers Development and regional peers to ensure a seamless end-to-end experience.

What you need to be successful:

• Early Careers Strategy & Delivery: 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.

• University Relations & Market Insight: Deep understanding of the university landscape, academic structures and early careers market dynamics.

• Regional & Operational Expertise: Translating global strategy into locally relevant approaches.

• Leadership & Scale Delivery: Proven experience leading and developing high-performing, geographically dispersed teams, delivering complex, high-volume recruitment campaigns.

• Operational, Technology & Investment Management: Extensive knowledge of early careers recruitment operations, including systems, processes, assessments and pipelining models, with proven ability to manage budgets and optimise investment.

• Strategic Workforce & Pipeline Planning: Ability to translate workforce plans into multi-year early careers pipelines with measurable hiring impact.

• Partner Engagement & Influence: Capable of building trusted relationships with senior partners.

• Data-Driven Recruitment & Market Insight: Analytical capability to use data to inform sourcing strategies.

• Resilience, Culture & Inclusion: Foster an inclusive, high-performance team culture and deliver results in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life.

Travel Requirement

Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Recruiting Strategies, Stakeholder Management

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please .

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.