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Oakleaf is pleased to be partnering with a diversified financial services platform based in central London. With an entrepreneurial and growth-focused culture, they invest to drive long-term value creation across a portfolio of consumer and healthcare businesses, provide fund management and administration, as well as advisory services.

We are seeking a commercially minded Group Head of Talent to lead the people agenda across both the core business and its portfolio. This is a high-impact leadership role, with approximately 50% of time spent on internal people priorities and 50% partnering with portfolio companies to enhance leadership capability, organisational effectiveness, and performance.

There is potential for the successful individual to work on a part-time pro rata basis, 4 days per week. Full-time candidates will be based in the offices 4 days per week.

Duties & Responsibilities
* Define and deliver an ongoing group-wide people strategy
* Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership teams on organisational performance, leadership effectiveness, and team dynamics
* Drive a high-performance culture, evolving performance management frameworks
* Accountable for leadership development, coaching and executive assessment initiatives
* Lead and develop the offshore People Operations function, ensuring efficient delivery of HR services
* Oversee talent acquisition and end-to-end people processes across the group
* Monitor and report on key people metrics including hiring, retention, engagement and cost
* Partner with portfolio businesses to support scaling, organisational design, succession planning and executive hiring
* Contribute to investment due diligence through talent assessment, and leadership evaluation
* Support strategic planning and budgeting relating to capability and talent investment

Requirements
* Experience in a senior HR role within financial services, private equity or a similarly complex environment
* Track record of partnering with leadership teams across both corporate and portfolio or multi-entity settings
* Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to link talent strategy to investment outcomes and value creation
* HR Generalist background with expertise in organisational design, succession planning, and leadership development
* Strong understanding of the dynamics of high-growth, entrepreneurial, or investment-led environments
* Excellent stakeholder management, with the ability to influence at senior levels
* Hands-on, pragmatic, and solutions-focused approach
* High levels of integrity, judgement, and emotional intelligence

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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