Early Career Talent Acquisition Lead

About the Role

At Marsh, Early Career hiring is a critical driver of our future talent pipeline. We are seeking an experienced Early Career Talent Acquisition Lead to drive the strategy and delivery of Early Career hiring across the US and Canada. In this role, you will help shape how we attract, assess, and hire early career talent, while supporting consistent, inclusive, and high-quality candidate experience. You will lead a team and play a hands-on role in delivering high-quality recruiting outcomes. This is a leadership position for someone who brings both strategic thinking and day-to-day execution, with the confidence to influence stakeholders, improve processes, and help build a scalable early career hiring model. This is a hybrid position with an expectation of working in a local office at least three days per week.

Responsibilities

• Lead the early career recruiting strategy across the US and Canada, aligning hiring plans to business priorities and talent needs.
• Manage and develop a team by setting priorities, goals, and expectations, and supporting team performance and development.
• Provide leadership to the early career hiring team and build on strategy in alignment with stakeholders and team.
• Ensure operational excellence.
• Partner with business leaders, hiring managers, people partners, and our Early Career Program Team Leader to understand hiring needs, confirm role requirements, and support hiring decisions.
• Oversee early career sourcing strategy, event planning, interview design, assessment, and offer management.
• Leverage recruitment platforms and build relationships with universities and early talent communities.
• Implement structured and inclusive hiring processes that support quality, efficiency, and consistency.
• Use data and insights to track performance (e.g., pipeline health, conversion rates, time to fill, acceptance rates, candidate experience) and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Support a positive candidate experience and ensure recruiting interactions reflect our culture and values.
• Contribute to broader talent acquisition priorities by sharing best practices and partnering across the recruiting organization.
• Operate effectively at both strategic and execution levels, setting direction while remaining hands-on during peak periods.
• Focus on building strategy, including candidate and stakeholder engagement, and integration with the broader Talent Acquisition organization.
• Partner closely with the Early Career Hub for operational excellence and the Early Career Program team.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree
• A minimum of 7 years of Early Career hiring experience
• A minimum of 3 years of people management experience, including setting early career hiring direction and building on performance

Skills

• Stakeholder management skills and experience driving and aligning strategy with key stakeholders, including senior leaders, TA colleagues, and the Early Career Program team.
• Experience working in a matrixed and collaborative environment that is agile and adaptable.
• Experience shaping Early Career hiring strategy, with a focus on stakeholder experience.
• Ability to use recruiting data to inform decisions and recommendations.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, and organizational skills.
• Interest in developing early talent and building long-term pipeline capability.
• Motivation to thrive in an environment that embraces AI and technology-enabled tools.

Why Join Us

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work, and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have an impact on colleagues, clients, and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Pay

The applicable base salary range for this role is $114,400 to $228,800. The base pay offered will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, education, and any applicable minimum wage requirements. Decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.

Benefits

We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package, including health and welfare benefits, tuition assistance, 401K savings and other retirement programs, and employee assistance programs.

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive, and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting reasonableaccommodations@marsh.com.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections, and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.