Capgemini Invent - Campus Lead
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About the Job You're Considering
Capgemini Invent is seeking a strategic and highly organized Campus Recruiting Lead to oversee the planning, execution, and continuous improvement of our North America campus recruiting program. This role is focused on program management, stakeholder engagement, operational excellence, and talent pipeline strategy, ensuring the successful attraction and hiring of top emerging talent across the organization.
As the Campus Recruiting Lead, you will drive the end-to-end campus recruiting calendar, manage university partnerships, oversee recruiting events and hiring campaigns, and collaborate with Talent Acquisition, business leaders, and external partners to deliver a best-in-class campus hiring experience. You will serve as the central point of coordination across multiple stakeholders, ensuring alignment between workforce planning needs, recruiting activities, and hiring outcomes.
This role is ideal for a recruiting professional with strong project and program management skills who can balance strategy, operations, data analysis, and stakeholder management while driving large-scale recruitment initiatives in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
Your Role
As a Campus Recruiting Lead, you will:
- Lead the planning, management, and execution of the North America campus recruiting program, including internship, co-op, and entry-level hiring initiatives.
- Develop and execute annual campus recruiting strategies aligned to business growth objectives and workforce planning needs.
- Serve as the primary program manager for all campus recruiting activities, ensuring timely execution of recruiting milestones and hiring deliverables.
- Build and manage relationships with universities, career centers, faculty, student organizations, and external partners to strengthen talent pipelines.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition leadership and business stakeholders to forecast hiring demand, establish recruiting targets, and prioritize hiring efforts.
- Manage the campus recruiting calendar, including career fairs, information sessions, networking events, case competitions, interview days, and offer programs.
- Oversee recruiting operations, ensuring consistent processes, compliance standards, candidate communication, and interview execution across the program.
- Monitor pipeline health, conversion metrics, diversity goals, and hiring outcomes; provide regular reporting and recommendations to leadership.
- Identify opportunities to improve recruiting efficiency, candidate experience, and program effectiveness through process enhancements and data-driven decision making.
- Collaborate with marketing and employer branding teams to increase Capgemini Invent's visibility and engagement within target universities.
- Manage recruiting vendors, event logistics, university sponsorships, and program-related budgets where applicable.
- Provide guidance and support to Recruiters, Campus Recruiters, Coordinators, and business stakeholders involved in the campus hiring process.
- Lead post-season program evaluations and implement continuous improvement initiatives to optimize future recruiting cycles.
- Drive diversity recruiting and early-career talent initiatives that support the firm's long-term talent strategy.
Your Skills + Experience
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
- 5+ years of experience in campus recruiting, university relations, talent acquisition, recruiting operations, HR program management, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience leading campus recruiting programs or large-scale recruiting initiatives across multiple locations or business groups.
- Proven program and project management experience, including planning, execution, stakeholder management, and results measurement.
- Experience partnering with senior business leaders, hiring managers, universities, and talent acquisition teams.
- Strong ability to manage multiple workstreams, competing priorities, and complex recruiting timelines.
- Experience developing and analyzing recruiting metrics, pipeline reports, and hiring performance data.
- Knowledge of campus recruiting best practices, university recruiting cycles, and early-career talent strategies.
- Experience managing recruiting events, university partnerships, and candidate engagement initiatives.
- Proficiency with applicant tracking systems (ATS), recruiting technologies, Excel, PowerPoint, and reporting tools.
The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is: $110,000-$135,000.
Capgemini provides compensation range information in accordance with applicable national, state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws. The base compensation range listed for this position reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation Capgemini, in good faith, believes it may pay for the role at the time of this posting. This range may be subject to change as permitted by law.
The actual compensation offered to any candidate may fall outside of the posted range and will be determined based on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction.
These may include, but are not limited to: Geographic location, Education and qualifications, Certifications and licenses, Relevant experience and skills, Seniority and performance, Market and business consideration, Internal pay equity.
It is not typical for candidates to be hired at or near the top of the posted compensation range.
In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for additional compensation such as variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on the position and applicable laws.
Capgemini offers a comprehensive, non-negotiable benefits package to all regular, full-time employees. In the U.S. and Canada, available benefits are determined by local policy and eligibility and may include:
- Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
- Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
- Life and disability insurance
- Employee assistance programs
- Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility
Important Notice: Compensation (including bonuses, commissions, or other forms of incentive pay) is not considered earned, vested, or payable until it becomes due under the terms of applicable plans or agreements and is subject to Capgemini’s discretion, consistent with applicable laws. The Company reserves the right to amend or withdraw compensation programs at any time, within the limits of applicable legislation.
Disclaimers
Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging inclusion in the workplace. Capgemini also participates in the Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations (PAIR) program which supports meaningful engagement with Indigenous communities across Canada by promoting fairness, accessibility, inclusion and respect. We value the rich cultural heritage and contributions of Indigenous Peoples and actively work to create a welcoming and respectful environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.
This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodation does not pose an undue hardship. Capgemini is committed to providing reasonable accommodation during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodation, please reach out to your recruiting contact.
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