Early Careers Business Partner Graduates

Company description:
J. Murphy & Sons Limited is a leading global, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 that improves lives by delivering world-class infrastructure.
Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, we provide better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including Transportation, Water, Power, Natural Resources, and Construction & Property.
Headquartered in London, we also have a number of related businesses - Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Urban Infrastructure; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services.We are specialists in delivering pipelines; design; marine; structural steel; tunnelling; fabrication; bridges and piling; and invest heavily in our substantial holding of plant; equipment and facilities.
Murphy employs around 3,500 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, we work as ‘One Murphy’ by directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success.
There’s more to Murphy.

Job description:
**Early Career Business Partner ( Graduates)
Fixed Term Maternity Cover.**

Do you want to join an award-winning employer?If so look no further.....

The team is vibrant and professional and we are looking for somebody like minded to join them

**What you will be doing**
- Identify and assess new and innovative approaches to graduate attraction and retention and ensure they are at the forefront of the Murphy graduate management
- Build and maintain the right brand for attracting and developing graduates that’s right for Murphy
- Agree and prepare the business for the best recruitment approach in each cycle, incl. keep warm follow up activity
- Identify and maintain the best sources of graduates and prepare the business for their engagement
- Advertise roles using the best advertising tools and techniques
- First line CV sifting and booking interviews following the business’s CV review
- Organise interview mop up sessions challenging suggested selections as and when appropriate
- Raise contracts in SF and initiate onboarding, ensuring the business can complete the onboarding process
- Order CSCS cards in time for the new starters to be able to visit/ undertake work on our sites
- Organise induction for all new starting cohorts
- Agree the framework for graduate development,communicate and organise development sessions, providing an unparalleled development experience for our graduate population
- Enrol individuals onto their professional qualifications and support their development journey
- Agree the framework for the performance management of graduates including preparing all of the agreed packs for the BUs to use
- Facilitate rotations and roll off conversations ensuring everyone gets a chance to experience more of Murphy
- Support the business in providing a holistic Murphy experience for our placements
- Reporting and data management of graduate population
- Ensure the graduate management strategy is well established, communicated and delivered across Murphy
- Act as a strong advocate for the Murphy at 75 people plan, particularly identifying and helping deliver ways to increase our diverse graduate population and their benefit to the business
- Provide assistance to any arising graduate matters
- Act as the lead contact for Murphy graduate input into bids/work winning
- Work closely and collaboratively with project based Murphy social value leads/D&I representatives maximising the opportunity to build the Murphy brand in the wider society
- Support the People Partners in effective implementation of graduate management and development practices in the business
- Proactively research and identify best practice initiatives and deliver as appropriate
- Attend relevant events to ensure continual personal and professional development
- Ensure People team’s contribution is strategically business relevant and aligned to our commercial
- goals

**Who we are looking for**
- Proven experience of working across the ET cycle
- Experience of recruitment for ET
- Experienced Development Partner for ET
- Proven experience of pushing the boundaries and implementing innovative solutions at work
- Knowledge of employer brand building
- Successful delivery of continuous improvement activities
- Excellent communication skills with ability to assimilate information quickly and advise impacts/opportunities
- Effective rapport builder working at ease with all levels across the business