Emerging Talent Specialist
About the job
- Experience managing high-volume recruitment and delivering large-scale programmes, with exposure to international markets.
- A solid understanding of emerging talent recruitment, assessment, and programme management.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and collaborators simultaneously.
- High attention to detail and strong organisational capability.
- Ability to interpret data to drive decision-making and ongoing improvement.
- A forward-thinking approach to innovation and improving ways of working.
- Flexibility and responsiveness to emerging trends, business needs, and shifts in the emerging talent landscape.
- An agile approach and ability to adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment.
- Resilience and ability to maintain focus and composure through change and challenges.
- Build and deliver attraction plans for emerging talent programmes aligned to workforce needs.
- Drive diverse sourcing strategies, including partnerships, contextual recruitment approaches, and platforms.
- Attend relevant external industry events, including careers fairs, campus presence, and partnership events, to represent and showcase the employer brand.
- Serve as the main contact with universities, suppliers, and assessment partners, managing performance and relationships to ensure effective partner delivery.
- Lead supplier performance, service-level agreements, applicant interaction, and renewal recommendations.
- Coordinate and attend attraction events with third-party partners.
- Introduce innovative recruitment methodologies and process improvements to enhance efficiency and candidate experience.
- Develop and sustain a network of external contacts, applying industry knowledge to guide trends and innovative approaches.
- Partner with Marketing and Communications to develop employee-value-proposition-aligned messaging, content, social media, and candidate communications.
- Own requisitions and run kick-off meetings with hiring managers and programme collaborators.
- Design and ensure seamless assessment processes, including screening, online tests, assessment centres, and interviews.
- Brief interviewers and assessors to ensure consistent evaluation and bias mitigation.
- Manage offers and candidate feedback processes for successful and unsuccessful candidates.
- Track recruitment risks, including drop-off, time-to-hire, and conversion, and adjust selection tactics accordingly.
- Coordinate end-to-end onboarding journeys, aligning induction, achievements, and touchpoints.
- Devise and deliver keep-warm strategies to mitigate candidate reneges.
- Partner with Talent Solutions to identify skills and contribute to building the skills curriculum.
- Support manager capability for emerging talent development through toolkits, briefing sessions, and check-ins.
- Build engagement activities, including alumni networks, buddy systems, and career-development workshops.
- Provide pastoral care and structured guidance to emerging talent.
- Serve as the main point of contact for programme collaborators, including Talent Acquisition, People and Culture business partners, hiring managers, and sponsors.
- Participate in programme forums and governance meetings and take a consultative approach.
- Advise collaborators on hiring guidelines, selection fairness, timelines, and the employee value proposition.
- Build and maintain an external network of contacts, using industry insight to inform trends and innovative approaches.
- Contribute to tracking and reporting key performance indicators, including attraction, diversity, pass-through rates, offers, and retention.
- Use insights to continuously refine attraction, assessment, and programme design.
- Maintain process documentation and responsibility-assignment structures for consistent delivery.
- Ensure adherence to internal policies and external regulations concerning data privacy, conduct, and pre-employment screening.
About the company
Schroders is a global asset manager with a long history and offices in 27 countries. It manages assets for institutional and retail investors, wealth management clients, and financial institutions, aiming to grow long-term value for clients. How it works: Schroders pools money from clients and invests it across a range of asset classes through its investment teams, producing tailored portfolios and services such as portfolio management, wealth planning, and banking support. How it differentiates itself: it emphasizes aligning its goals with clients’ interests, scales to manage hundreds of billions of pounds in assets, and has a long-standing presence with a widespread global footprint and a focus on responsible corporate citizenship. Its goal is to help investors meet financial objectives by channelling money into the economy and delivering sustainable, long-term performance.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
1804
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- H1 2026 adjusted operating profit rose 46% to £459.8 million, proving operating leverage.
- Record AUM reached £867.8 billion on 30 June 2026, aided by markets and FX.
- SOAR’s Irish approval and 2026 active ETF momentum signal continued product innovation and fund launches.
What critics are saying
- Nuveen’s acquisition is expected in Q4 2026, ending Schroders’ independence as an employer.
- H1 2026 net outflows hit £8.3 billion excluding JVs, pressuring future organic growth.
- Benchmark sale, Brazil exit, and Indonesia exit shrink the platform before integration or sale closes.
What makes Schroders unique
- Schroders runs active public-to-private credit products, including 2026 ELTIFs and tokenised money funds.
- Its global brand spans 27 countries, serving institutions, wealth clients, and charities.
- China partnership optionality and J.P. Morgan Kinexys integration give Schroders distribution and infrastructure breadth.
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Schroders PLC has raised its stake in LendInvest PLC to 13.579557% of the company's shares outstanding, up from 10.039607%. The increase took place on October 13, 2026, and leaves Schroders holding 19,389,167 shares. It notified the company on October 14, 2026. The holding is spread across several Schroders entities, including Schroder Investment Management Limited.
Schroders has received approval from the Central Bank of Ireland to launch a tokenised share class in a US dollar money market fund. The share class, called Schroders onchain active returns (SOAR), uses J.P. Morgan's Kinexys multi-chain tokenisation system. Investors will be able to use blockchain-based smart contracts to automatically process transactions such as redemptions and transfers. The structure allows the fund to operate outside conventional systems, including enabling direct transfers between clients. Schroders said the technology could enable future applications like collateralisation and round-the-clock treasury management. The Ireland-domiciled fund will be managed by Neil Sutherland, head of US fixed income at Schroders, alongside credit specialists. The launch follows Schroders Capital's introduction of tokenised features to its insurance-linked securities platform earlier this year.
Schroders reported adjusted operating profit of £459.8m for the first half of 2026, up 46% from £316m in the same period last year. Pre-tax profit rose to £396.8m from £196.9m. Assets under management reached a record £867.8bn on 30 June 2026, up from £823.7bn at the end of 2025. The increase reflected market gains, favourable foreign exchange movements and investment performance, partly offset by net outflows of £8.3bn excluding joint ventures and associates. The firm has delivered over 98% of its £150m annualised cost savings target set in March 2025. Schroders announced the sale of Benchmark, its UK financial advice business, and completed exits from Brazil and Indonesia. Shareholders approved Nuveen's acquisition of Schroders with over 99% support. The deal, expected to close in Q4 2026, would create a combined entity managing approximately $2.5tn in assets.
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