Director, Global University Relations

**About our group**:
**About the role - you will**:

- Program manage and shape college recruitment strategy, drive University program initiatives, and managing execution on a global scale that leads to build intern, rotational, and college graduate talent pools
- Keep client groups abreast of market trends and diversity hiring initiatives that may impact recruitment strategies
- Influence stakeholders to ensure organization competitive positioning, including review of metrics/scorecards to assess performance and overall program effectiveness
- Manage a regional global team that support a portfolio of colleges and universities, network with diversity organizations, seek student and military outreach opportunities, and cultivate new relationships to source talented intern and graduate level talent
- Build relationships with key campus deans, faculty/staff members in target schools/degree programs, career service representatives, advisors, student leaders, relevant student groups on campus, and alumni groups
- Develop branding/marketing/employer brand plans for schools based on regional recruitment targets; identifying multiple access points to reach students at portfolio schools
- Promote UR program through various advertising channels and social media
- With university team create detailed school strategic plans with clearly defined objectives, desired outcomes, and diversity recruitment plans, managing the calendar of events and attending campus events in support of school strategy as appropriate
- Manage UR operational activities based on annual forecasts including coordination/allocation of resources to achieve objectives; track & manage university spend to support program objectives
- Cultivate relationships with key Stakeholders, Business leaders, HR Business Partners, Global Talent Acquisition teams, Global Leadership & Learning, and other internal groups to drive University Relations strategy

**About you**:

- Manage a global university relations team across Seagate sites with strategic program vision, motivation, and support team develop
- Strong verbal and written communication skills are necessary to influence, inform and guide others
- Deliver internal and external campus speaking engagements, as well as to prepare and execute presentations for business and leadership meetings
- Strong business acumen, leadership, mentoring, facilitation, and coaching skills
- Demonstrated track record of successful executive interactions, influencing and consulting skills

**Your experience includes**:

- Demonstrated success designing and implementing global university recruiting programs for graduates (all levels) and intern or rotational programs
- Analytical skills to translate data to insight and intelligence to present the "state of the business" from a staffing perspective to all customers
- Managing full life cycle experience of graduate and intern hires is required: program, relocation, conversions, training, and off-boarding
- Demonstrated strong leadership skills
- Excellent project management skills
- ROI analysis and metrics development and ability to serve as university relations program evangelist
- Demonstrated track record of elevated account management and consulting skills
- Strong analytical skills to translate data to insight on UR from a talent acquisition perspective to all customers/stakeholders
- Expertise with Automated Applicant Tracking Systems/Job Posting systems, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Power Point) and Microsoft Outlook
- Bachelors degree and/or equivalent experience
- University recruiting and/or other human resource disciplines such as business-based HR partner or talent management where recruiting was part of the role
- Other human resource discipline experience such as HR business partner or leadership development, training, etc.

**Location**:
Location: Shugart, Singapore
The Shugart site (named after Seagate’s founder, Al Shugart) is a research and design center. Easily accessible from the One-North MRT Station, many employees choose to take mass-transportation to work. Ample free on-site parking is also available. Being a purpose built building, The Shugart has excellent employee recreational facilities. Take an active break at our badminton courts, table tennis tables, in-house gym and recreation rooms. Our yoga and zumba classes are very popular. We also offer classes and interest groups in photography, gardening and foreign languages, and have various on-site celebrations, and community volunteer opportunities.

Travel: 20%

In response to COVID-19, this position may temporarily begin and be performed remotely. Seagate is actively evaluating the virus and our employees' health and safety are our top priority. In the future, this position will report to and be performed at our Shugart location.