Apprentice Program Manager - 12 Month FTC

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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At Visa, we value every individual for their unique background, experiences and view of the world which complements our fully inclusive talent philosophy where employees are supported to explore and develop in opportunities aligned to their personal career goals. Our student programs are therefore an integral part of our talent plan at Visa. With a broad reach across all our programs the empowerment to develop them further to meet the Visa's strategic needs, this role will play a key part in hiring and developing high impact early-in-career' cohorts for our organisation.

As an Apprentice Program Manager you'll be a key member of an established team of 10 in Poland, Germany and the UK. However, you will have specific ownership of our Degree Apprenticeship Programme in the UK. You’ll be responsible for recruiting all program participants, managing the relationship with the training provider and helping support them for the duration of their work experience at Visa.

There is a specific focus on:

• Manage the UK apprenticeship program in London & Reading

• Cross-collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to, Global Early Careers TA team, People Team, business leaders, and recruitment vendors

• Provide training and hands on guidance to business leaders on how to manage and develop junior talent, as well as supporting hands on with feedback conversations

• Lead on Recruitment for all Apprentices in the UK, including attraction, assessment and selection

• Deliver relevant learning opportunities and program experiences for all cohorts (circa 40 learners) of apprentices in the UK

• Develop and deliver marketing activities to improve our Employer Brand in the UK, and bring to life the opportunity our Apprenticeship program offers

• Managing the relationship with our external training provider to ensure successful outcomes for both the learners and Visa, and that all service levels are met.

• Build, analyze, maintain, and distribute Talent Acquisition data analytics to stakeholders regarding performance indicators/trends to impact TA results and strategic objectives

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

•Extremely passionate about working with Early Career talent
•Ideally experience of managing a Graduate or Apprentice program
•A great communicator able to build rapport with early in career candidates and
influence stakeholders, and handle challenging conversations with individuals
at all levels of the business
•A keenness to use data in driving decision making and assessing success
•You'll personally thrive in a fast-paced environment where juggling priorities is
your norm
•Exceptional verbal, written, and presentational communication skills and
experience handling confidential information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.