Early Careers Talent Partner

About the role

Howden Re is the global reinsurance broker and risk, capital & strategic advisor focused on relentless innovation & superior analytics for top client service.

What we're looking for

We are looking for an energetic and strategic Early Careers Talent Partner to join our team! In this role, you will champion our university recruitment, internship and graduate programs, serving as our primary brand ambassador for students and early careers professionals. You will also be an integral member of our learning and development team where you will help shape the onboarding and learning journey for our interns and junior employees. The responsibilities for this role are as follows:

Responsibilities

Early Careers Attraction & Onboarding

• Partner with the central Early Careers team
• Lead the U.S. early careers attraction strategy across internship, graduate, and insight-day programs.
• Build and manage relationships with target universities, actuarial and risk management programs, student organizations
• Represent Howden Re at campus recruiting events, industry conferences, networking programs, and early talent forums.
• Design and support fair, inclusive, and effective candidate selection processes that identify future potential and business fit.
• Create and manage a structured onboarding and induction program that accelerates integration, engagement, and productivity.
• Ensure new hires establish strong connections across teams, networks, and business functions from day one.
• Coordinate mentoring, buddy programs, manager engagement, and cohort experiences that reinforce Howden Re's collaborative culture.
• Create scalable onboarding frameworks that can be adapted globally while maintaining a consistent learner experience.
• Experienced Talent Acquisition support as needed.

• Global Early Careers Learning Journey
• This is the core focus of the role.
• You will be responsible for the end-to-end design, delivery, and continuous improvement of Howden Re's global technical development curriculum.

• Develop and manage a multi-year learning journey that combines formal training, professional qualifications, experiential learning, coaching, and on-the-job development.
• Build and continually enhance a comprehensive reinsurance curriculum covering key industry concepts, structures, and market dynamics.
• Partner with business leaders and subject matter experts across broking, analytics, actuarial, capital markets, advisory, and other functions to develop engaging and relevant learning experiences.
• Ensure consistency, quality, and technical rigor across all program content and delivery.
• Align learning pathways with relevant professional certifications and qualifications, including U.S. and UK designations as well as equivalent qualifications in other regions.
• Manage external learning vendors and professional education partners to ensure quality, effectiveness, and value.
• Establish meaningful assessments, learning milestones, and progression checkpoints that demonstrate capability growth and readiness for advancement.
• Ensure protected learning and study time is consistently supported and honored across the business.

Learning and Talent Development Initiatives

• Beyond the core early careers program, you will work with the wider learning team to drive broader capability-building initiatives that strengthen talent development across the organization.
• Assume ownership of assigned learning programs, projects, and operational activities, contributing to the delivery and continuous evolution of Howden Re's learning and talent strategy.

Examples include

• Building a scalable Reinsurance Technical Academy that supports both early-career and experienced professionals.
• Designing cross-regional and cross-functional cohort projects that solve real business challenges.
• Enhancing learning technology, digital content strategies, self-directed pathways, and LMS capabilities.
• Contribute to the development of skills and capability frameworks that link learning, performance, and career progression.

Measure Success and Drive Continuous Improvement

• Establish and track key program metrics including retention, promotion readiness, qualification progress, learner engagement, manager satisfaction, and program participation outcomes.
• Analyze program data and learner feedback to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Deliver insights and recommendations to senior leadership that demonstrate impact and inform future investments.
• Continuously evolve programs to meet changing business needs and industry trends.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or similar.
• 5+ years of full lifecycle recruiting experience with a focus on university relations and campus recruiting.
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong partnerships with universities.
• Demonstrated success in managing high volume candidate pipelines.
• Progressive talent acquisition experience.

Pay and benefits

The expected base salary range for this role is $120,000-140,000. The base salary range is based on level and does not include other types of compensation such as discretionary bonus or benefits.

What we offer

• A career that you define. Yes, we offer all the usual rewards and benefits - including medical, dental, vision, a wide variety of wellbeing offers, competitive salary, unlimited PTO, 401k with company match, paid volunteer days and more.
• We provide an environment where new ideas are encouraged and celebrated, where people who want to have a real hand in our success thrive. We want people who want to make a difference - not just in the workplace, but in the industry and in the wider community.