Partnering with the CEO and exec team to ensure people strategy is fully aligned to business goals and growth plans
Holding senior leaders to account for embedding our culture and role-modelling our operating principles
Leading organisational readiness for Enhanced SMCR, strengthening governance, accountability frameworks and regulatory learning
Shaping organisational design and workforce plans to ensure we have the right skills, structure and succession in place
Preparing the business for European expansion, including hiring, policy localisation and operational setup
Driving the evolution of our hybrid and location strategy, including office moves, future footprint planning and health & safety oversight
Supporting responsible AI adoption across the business, ensuring our approach enhances productivity and innovation while maintaining fairness, compliance and strong ways of working
Overseeing performance and engagement frameworks, ensuring insight from feedback and survey data translates into clear action
Acting as an escalation point for complex people relations and regulatory matters, ensuring fair, consistent and compliant outcomes
Leading and enabling the People team, setting priorities, running quarterly planning and ensuring operational excellence across the full people lifecycle
Partnering with Finance on reward strategy, salary reviews, executive incentives and long-term workforce cost planning

You’ve led a people function in a scaling, commercially driven and regulated environment
You have direct experience of SMCR and ideally Enhanced firm governance requirements
You’re confident operating at exec and Board level, able to influence and hold senior leaders to account
You bring strong organisational design and workforce planning capability
You have deep knowledge of UK employment law and regulatory people risk (European experience desirable)
You balance strategic clarity with operational pragmatism and are comfortable rolling up your sleeves
You’re calm in ambiguity and energised by growth, change and evolving complexity
You lead through others, building trust quickly while combining empathy with accountability

27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday + three days (full time) per year for Dependant leave
Two volunteering days per year
6% employer pension contribution, and life assurance
Private medical insurance with AXA Health
Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year
Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via Headspace
Financial wellbeing initiatives including access to will writing offering via Octopus Legacy and Seccl invest (our own platform for you to manage your investments)
Perkbox – Flexi-points giving you a range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts.

Interim Head of People

Key skills