Full-Time

Early Careers Recruitment Manager

Posted on 7/30/2026

Deadline 8/13/26
BP

BP

10,001+ employees

Oil, gas, and renewable energy provider

No salary listed

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Hybrid

Eligible for relocation within India; up to 25% travel is expected.

Category
People & HR (1)
Required Skills
Market Research
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • A minimum graduation degree or equivalent is required.
  • At least 15 years of experience in the India early careers market is required.
  • Solid experience planning, developing, and delivering end-to-end high-volume early careers campaigns across multiple channels in India is required.
  • A minimum of 2–3 years of experience leading teams is required.
  • Strong partner leadership skills and a proven track record of influencing and collaborating are required, including the ability to lead, engage, and educate at all levels.
  • The ability to run multiple high-volume recruitment campaigns simultaneously while ensuring timely delivery of high-calibre and diverse hires is required.
  • Experience recognizing opportunities for efficiency and process improvements is required.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required, including the ability to communicate ideas and strategies to senior leadership.
Responsibilities
  • Create tailored recruitment strategies aligned with the early careers operating model to attract, engage, pipeline, and recruit early-career talent, ensuring alignment with growth objectives and workforce planning requirements across the region.
  • Evaluate recruitment performance through effective use of metrics on an annual basis and deliver an overarching strategic end-of-campaign review for the relevant markets.
  • Lead and develop a team of early careers experts and coordinators to deliver early-career hiring demand for specified business areas and teams across relevant markets.
  • Lead end-to-end recruitment delivery, ensuring a consistent, inclusive, and high-quality hiring experience for candidates, and coordinate team activities to meet hiring demand requirements in India and within market windows.
  • Leverage recruitment technologies to optimize processes and support data-driven decision-making, ensuring effective team use of Future Talent software and digital solutions.
  • Implement the Early Engagement operating model to support skills and diverse-talent pipelines in line with future demand needs.
  • Deliver the attraction and engagement agenda in the market, understand the university landscape and course content, and identify, engage, and partner with universities and third parties.
  • Keep talent engagement pipelines warm and convert candidates to hires, with a focus on diversity and future skills.
  • Keep up to date with recruitment trends, particularly within priority subject areas and industry sectors, to maintain an informed talent-acquisition approach.
  • Review and report on key recruitment metrics, using insights to improve recruitment effectiveness and efficiency, and use operational and real-time reporting insights to advise operational-excellence alignment across the team.
  • Continually engage with key business and local People, Culture and Communications leadership to ensure the Future Talent service remains relevant and delivers value against business priorities.
  • Partner with Early Careers Development colleagues and support onboarding delivery to ensure a seamless handover of candidate responsibility.
  • Strengthen bp’s brand positioning within the early-careers hiring landscape and identify opportunities to partner with business and academia for strategic interventions.

BP operates as a global energy company that manages the exploration, production, and distribution of oil and gas while investing in renewable energy projects like solar and offshore wind. Its products include energy for governments, businesses, and consumers, along with energy-related services aimed at reducing carbon emissions and improving efficiency. BP differentiates itself by leveraging its large multinational scale and a broad portfolio that spans fossil fuels and renewables, backed by investments, partnerships, and efficiency programs to support the energy transition. Its goal is to be a trusted energy provider and help customers move toward a lower-carbon energy mix while contributing to global climate goals.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

1909

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What believers are saying

  • Its retail forecourt network can monetize EV charging and lower-carbon consumer products.[6][4]
  • Gas, hydrogen, and carbon capture businesses can serve hard-to-abate industrial customers.[6][14]
  • Power trading and renewable generation can improve value capture in integrated energy markets.[6][9]

What critics are saying

  • Hydrocarbons remain BP’s core profit engine, exposing it to policy and investor re-rating risk.[1][2]
  • Renewables and low-carbon projects face lower margins than oil and gas, pressuring returns.[14][5]
  • Large-scale operations across 60-plus countries increase exposure to regulatory, safety, and geopolitical shocks.[2][8]

What makes BP unique

  • BP is a vertically integrated global energy company spanning oil, gas, power, and trading.[1][2]
  • It already operates solar, offshore wind, hydrogen, carbon capture, EV charging, and retail energy businesses.[6][8]
  • BP combines a century-old hydrocarbons franchise with a stated net-zero ambition by 2050 or sooner.[14][16]

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Benefits

Health Insurance

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Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

401(k) Retirement Plan

Flexible Work Hours

Hybrid Work Options

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