Director, Early Career Program Development
About the Role
The Director, Early Career Program Development leads the design, development, and scaling of early career programs that build sustainable talent pipelines aligned to current and future workforce needs. This role translates business and talent priorities into early career talent profiles, pipeline strategies, and development programs, including internships, graduate programs, and future leader pathways.
Your Day-to-Day
Early Career Program Strategy & Development
• Design/develop internships, co-ops, apprenticeships, rotational programs, graduate programs, and entry-level pathways
• Translate workforce priorities into strategies defining target talent, critical experiences, development needs, career paths, and outcomes
• Create scalable frameworks, governance, standards, and playbooks
Talent Pipeline Design & Planning
• Partner with TA and business leaders to identify future talent needs and build pipelines for priorty roles
• Define pipeline strategies connecting attraction, selection, and development
• Build conversion approaches that move successful participants into full-time roles and critical-talent pipelines
Program Success Criteria & Measurement
• Define success criteria, KPIs, and evaluation methods across attraction, participation, development, conversion, retention, performance, and satisfaction
• Build scorecards and review rhythms to track program health, outcomes, effectiveness, and improvement opportunities
• Use data, feedback, business insights to assess effectiveness
Career Development & Capability Building
• Design career development experiences that build capability and support early career progression
• Develop onboarding, learning journeys, rotations, mentoring, networking, leadership exposure, and career-planning resources
• Partner with relevant SME's to define curricula, critical experiences, and milestones
Program Experience & Engagement
• Create a consistent participant experience from entry through completion, and conversion
• Develop program calendars, communications, manager resources, orientation materials, evaluation tools
Stakeholder Partnership & Program Governance
• Partner with business leaders, People & Culture, TA, Talent Management, L&D, and stakeholders to align programs to workforce and talent strategies
• Establish governance and roles for program design and delivery
• Tailor enterprise frameworks to business capability and pipeline needs with functional leaders and HR partners
Program Management & Continuous Improvement
• Lead early career initiatives, managing plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder communications
• Simplify, standardize, and scale program processes, tools, and experiences
Who We're Looking For
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 7+ years in Talent Management, Early Careers, L&D, TA, HR Program Management, or related areas, including talent program design and implementation
• Experience building early career, internship, rotational, apprenticeship, graduate, or career development programs in a complex organization strongly preferred
• Ability to translate business and workforce needs into talent programs, development experiences, and measurable success criteria
• Strong program design and project management skills from strategy through implementation and measurement
• Ability to use data, insights, and feedback to evaluate effectiveness and drive improvement
• Experience with talent management, learning, recruiting, HR technology, and analytics platforms preferred
Annual Base Salary Range: $200,000 - $250,000
Philip Morris International Inc.'s U.S. businesses are invested in America's future and advancing a smoke-free nation. The businesses are committed to providing the approximately 25 million legal-age consumers who smoke cigarettes with better, smoke-free alternatives and to ensuring the products are marketed responsibly. From PMI's global headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, and other locations nationwide, PMI U.S. contributes leadership, jobs, investment, and innovation in the U.S. The U.S. businesses employ more than 3,000 people across America and operate product manufacturing facilities, including in Aurora, Colorado, Owensboro, Kentucky, and Wilson, North Carolina. For more information, please visit www.uspmi.com.
