Employer Brand Manager

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. 

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. 

Join EY and help to build a better working world. 

 

Employer Brand Manager - Northern Ireland - UKI BMC – 12 months FTC - Belfast 

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.   

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.   

Join EY and help to build a better working world. 

The opportunity  

A career at EY is an incredible opportunity for professionals to shape their future with confidence.  We have an amazing story to tell about the work we do, solving our clients most complex challenges, giving our people a supportive and empowering environment, where they work in innovative teams at the cutting edge of technology.  

We need to attract talent to serve our clients across our service lines: assurance, consulting, tax and strategy. Employer brand activations play a crucial part in this. In a fast-paced world where candidate behaviour is continually changing and with more career choices than ever before, we need to articulate why EY should be the employer of choice. This is an exciting opportunity for an established employer brand specialist to reframe how talent views us in Northern Ireland and land our employer value proposition to ensure that we’re a place where they want to build their careers.

Your key responsibilities

• Helping to deliver an overarching Employer Brand strategy for EY in the UKI that closes brand gaps, improves brand attributes and builds a community of engaged, prospective talent.
• Collaborating closely with our early careers and experienced hire employer brand campaign managers to align approaches, share insight and elevate overall campaign impact through a unified strategy.
• Leading an employer brand associate, setting a clear direction with objectives, and managing performance and development.
• Building strong relationships with the EY UK Talent team, the Northern Ireland leadership team and the business to understand business objectives and context to deliver employer brand activities that align with the broader employer brand direction.
• Working with recruitment and candidate engagement teams to review all candidate touchpoints and provide compelling EVP content to allow them to be the most powerful brand ambassadors that they can be.
• Working closely with our media agency to develop a paid strategy and to deliver specific employer brand activities across the year.
• Owning reporting and measurement to demonstrate the impact of activity on employer brand metrics to drive continuous improvement.
• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of recruiting, talent and employer brand trends in Northern Ireland to influence conversations and be a trusted subject matter expert.

Skills and attributes for success

• Extensive knowledge of Employer Brand principles, including knowledge of employer value propositions.

• Track record of delivering campaigns across paid, earned and owned media channels and demonstrating impact through measurement.

• Strong project management skills, with the ability to plan, prioritise and deliver multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines and stakeholder expectations.

• Ability to work within a Global brand framework and adapt or create work that aligns to master brand and creates the strongest possible impact in the UK.

• Team leadership capabilities and a track record of developing high performing teams.

• Ability to identify audience insights to influence strategies and develop impactful activities.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with visible presence in key conversations.

• Experience of working with media and creative agency relationships.

• Resilient and able to respond well to change.

• Budget management.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Experience of working in an employer brand team, ideally in a professional services or a large matrix structure environment.
• Strong understanding of the talent market for Northern Ireland.

What we offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with MyReward you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note 

Prior to finalising your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity & inclusiveness here. We ask because it matters.

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