Apprenticeship Levy Talent Manager

  • Apprenticeship Reference: 2772280814-2
  • Date Posted: 15 May 2026
  • Apprentice Employer: Focus Resourcing
  • Location: City, London
  • Remote Working: Some remote working possible
  • Apprentice Pay: £47,000 to £55,000
  • Apprenticeship Sector: Project Management, Recruitment & Talent Acquisition
  • Apprenticeship Type: Permanent
  • Work Hours: Full Time

About this Apprenticeship

Early Talent Manager required to join a dynamic, and established organisation. This is a 12 month secondment, and a fantastic opportunity. Working Monday to Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm, initially 5 days in the office for the first month, to then move to hybrid, reducing to 3 days in the office, with 2 days working from home. The annual salary is from 47,000.

Candidates applying for this position should have experience managing early talent, apprenticeships, or graduate programmes and strong knowledge of apprenticeships frameworks, levy funding, and provider management. Experience in early talent management within the construction industry is highly desirable.

Duties:

  • Lead the delivery of early talent plans, maintaining oversight of all early earlier career's pathways, identifying risks, gaps and opportunities
  • Manage the end-to-end apprenticeship lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, progress tracking and completions, maximising effective use of the apprenticeship levy and maintain strong relationships with approved training providers, ensuring programmes meet external regulatory, funding and quality requirements
  • Oversee and support attraction activity including careers events, assessment days and outreach initiatives, ensuring recruitment processes are fair, consistent and inclusive
  • Maintain accurate reporting on early talent numbers, progress, outcomes and KPI's

Benefits:

  • From 47,000 annual salary
  • 26 days holidays plus bank holidays
  • Healthcare
  • Season ticket loans
  • Discounted gym membership
  • Pension
  • Life Assurance
  • Cycle to work scheme

Experience:

  • Previous experience in early talent management
  • Strong knowledge of apprenticeship levy
  • Construction industry experience is highly desirable
  • Effective forward thinker, strong organisation skills, with excellent communication and relationship building skills
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • PC literate

Please bear in mind that you may not hear from us straight away. Due to the high level of applications, we receive every day, we can only respond to applicants whose skills and qualifications are suitable for this position. If you would like to be considered for similar and future positions, or for a complete listing of all our current vacancies, please visit our website.