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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.
We’re now looking for a Head of Early Careers Delivery to help evolve our offer. This is an important and high impact role where you will drive the operational delivery of our market leading Early Careers portfolio. This is your chance to lead learning experiences that define how our people begin their Deloitte journey, ensuring every programme runs seamlessly, scales effectively and delivers measurable impact. Your leadership will turn strategy into action, embed scalable delivery frameworks, and ensure Deloitte continues to set the standard for best in class Early Career learning.
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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
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As Head of Early Careers Delivery, you will lead the operational delivery and implementation of Deloitte's Early Careers learning portfolio. You will be responsible for ensuring that Deloitte's Early Careers strategy is translated into high quality, scalable and measurable learning experiences. This includes leading the delivery function, driving operational excellence across programmes, and ensuring the firm's future learning model is successfully implemented across all Early Careers populations.
This is a critical leadership role at a time of significant evolution. Deloitte is investing in the future of early careers learning through programme redesign, enhanced learner experiences and new approaches to capability development. You will play a central role in turning these ambitions into reality.
Working closely with Early Careers Leads, Professional Education, business technical learning teams and senior stakeholders across the firm, you will ensure that workforce requirements, learning strategy and curriculum design are translated into operational delivery that delivers measurable learner and business outcomes.
You will lead a team of Delivery Managers aligned to key business portfolios, creating consistency, quality and operational resilience across the function. Whilst Delivery Managers retain strong portfolio alignment, you will provide firmwide leadership, ensuring resources, standards and learner experiences are aligned to both business and strategic priorities.
Beyond operational leadership, you will act as the firm's implementation lead for major learning initiatives. You will drive adoption of the future learning model, embed common skills across Early Careers pathways, oversee curriculum implementation and ensure that learning experiences are integrated, scalable and sustainable.
This is a high trust leadership role operating at the intersection of learning strategy, workforce capability, operational delivery and business performance.
Responsibilities
Operationalising our strategy
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Lead the operational delivery of Deloitte's Early Careers learning portfolio, ensuring programmes are executed consistently and effectively whilst balancing business-specific requirements with firmwide priorities
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Drive implementation of Deloitte's future learning model, embedding the firm's professional skills curriculum and ensuring curriculum, programme and learner experience changes are successfully translated into scalable delivery
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Lead operational implementation of firmwide learning initiatives, ensuring strategic investment is translated into measurable learner and business outcomes.
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Build and evolve delivery frameworks, operating models and ways of working that support learner success, business outcomes and long term portfolio sustainability
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Own operational readiness and implementation planning for major programme, curriculum and learning experience changes
Leading delivery excellence
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Lead and develop the Delivery team, creating a high performing function with strong portfolio knowledge, consistent standards and operational resilience
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Balance delivery resources across portfolios and strategic priorities, ensuring the right capability is focused on the highest value activity
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Drive continuous improvement across programme delivery, learner experience and operational performance
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Learning portfolio and curriculum implementation
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Partner with Early Careers Leads, Professional Education and business technical learning teams to translate workforce requirements and learning strategy into high quality learner experiences
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Lead implementation of curriculum and learning experience changes, ensuring technical, professional and professional skills learning are integrated into coherent learner journeys
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Create consistency across the portfolio whilst preserving service-line differentiation and meeting business specific requirements
Driving impact through data and insight
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Use learner, delivery and business insight to measure impact, identify opportunities for improvement and inform future investment decisions
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Support demonstration of programme effectiveness, learner progression, capability development and return on investment across the Early Careers portfolio
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Simplify and streamline how delivery operates, reducing duplication and friction while improving learner and business experience
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Continuously foster innovation in our approach to reflect best practice and emerging learning technologies
Nurturing strong relationships
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Act as the operational counterpart to Early Careers Leads, creating alignment between business priorities and delivery execution
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Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, providers and learning partners to drive accountability, influence decisions and ensure successful delivery of strategic priorities
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Lead, coach and develop teams and subject matter experts, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement
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You are an experienced learning and delivery leader who can translate strategy into operational reality. You combine delivery leadership, learning expertise and change implementation experience, creating clarity in complex environments and bringing people together behind a shared vision.
Experiences
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Significant experience leading large scale learning, talent or workforce capability programmes within a complex organisation
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Experience leading implementation of learning strategy, curriculum transformation or change initiatives
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Experience balancing business specific requirements with firmwide priorities and influencing senior stakeholders to achieve alignment
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Strong financial and commercial acumen, including responsibility for budgets, suppliers and investment decisions
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Experience using learner and business insight to evaluate impact and drive continuous improvement
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Understanding of professional education pathways, apprenticeships and regulated learning environments
Skills and Behaviours
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Strategic executor – able to translate ambitious strategy into practical, scalable delivery that achieves measurable outcomes
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Credible leader – brings clarity, judgement and direction in complex environments, creating confidence across teams and senior stakeholders
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Learning and workforce focused – understands how learning, capability development, performance and workforce outcomes connect
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Influential collaborator – builds strong relationships across business, learning, talent and operational teams to achieve shared outcomes
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Commercial and data-led – uses evidence, insight and business impact measures to guide decisions and demonstrate value
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People developer – creates environments where individuals and teams can perform at their best whilst fostering accountability, inclusion and continuous improvement
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Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.
Human Resources
At Deloitte, Human Resources is transforming. We are already an award-winning HR team but we’re not resting there. We want to make an impact that matters for our people, our clients and for society. To achieve this, we're firmly embedding HR into the business, advising and innovating along with our business leaders.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.
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Our hybrid working policy
You’ll be based in Birmingham, London, Manchester or Reading with hybrid working.
At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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