Alongside this, you'll lead end-to-end recruitment for a range of technical and senior roles, identifying high-calibre candidates who not only have the right skills and experience, but who also align with our culture and values. You'll be passionate about creating a positive candidate experience and building strong talent pipelines for the future.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing strategic project work with hands-on delivery. You'll be equally comfortable facilitating discussions with senior leaders on future organisation design as you are sourcing and securing great talent.

What Success Looks Like

You'll thrive in this role if you:

• Have experience delivering organisational change or people transformation projects.
• Can translate business strategy into practical people solutions.
• Are confident challenging and influencing leaders at all levels.
• Enjoy solving complex people and organisational challenges.
• Have a strong recruitment background and a track record of attracting high-calibre talent.
• Balance a commercial mindset with a strong understanding of people, culture and risk.
• Are naturally curious, proactive and focused on continuous improvement.

Role Focus

• 70% Organisational Development & Change

  • Organisation design and operating model change
  • Succession planning and talent reviews
  • Workforce and capability planning
  • People projects and continuous improvement initiatives
  • Supporting leaders through change and growth

• 30% Talent Acquisition

  • End-to-end recruitment
  • Talent attraction and sourcing
  • Candidate experience
  • Employer branding
  • Building talent pipelines

Key Accountabilities

Strategic Change & People Projects

• Lead and support key People projects, managing scope, timelines, and implementation to drive operational efficiency and improve colleague experience.
• Partner with leadership to design and execute strategic change initiatives, ensuring workforce structures remain agile, efficient, and aligned with business goals.
• Facilitate smooth organisational transitions, supporting leaders and teams through restructures, consultation processes and change with empathy, fairness, and clarity.

Workforce Planning & Succession

• Collaborate with People Partners and business leaders to identify critical roles, key succession risks, and future capability needs.
• Map internal talent and career pathways to build robust succession frameworks, talent matrices, and internal mobility opportunities.
• Inform workforce decision-making by sharing market insights, capability trends, and talent development best practices with hiring managers.

Talent Acquisition & Delivery

• Build proactive talent pipelines (both internal and external) and design targeted sourcing strategies to meet current and future resourcing needs.
• Deliver end-to-end recruitment from requisition to onboarding, ensuring cost-conscious, high-calibre hiring that aligns with company culture.
• Champion our employer brand, leveraging digital channels, job adverts, and industry networks to promote the organisation as an employer of choice.

Candidate & Colleague Experience

• Deliver a seamless candidate journey, ensuring a welcoming, communicative, and values-led interview experience for all applicants.
• Support engagement and culture initiatives, enhancing feedback loops and colleague connection, particularly during periods of organisational change.
• Drive Group-wide Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) initiatives to foster an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives are valued.

Governance & Analytics

• Guide People Operations to ensure all recruitment, project outputs, and organisational change records remain accurate and legally compliant.
• Track, analyse, and report on key People metrics across talent delivery and project outcomes to inform senior leadership and measure success.

Skills And Knowledge

Essential

• Practical knowledge of people change principles, including hands-on understanding of formal consultation processes, with the ability to support leaders through team transitions, process improvements, and structural changes.
• Strong hands-on sourcing skills, including direct search, networking, ATS management, and social media recruiting.
• Excellent relationship-building skills with a collaborative, client-focused mindset and a commitment to delivering a high-quality candidate and colleague experience.
• Solid understanding of UK employment law, GDPR, statutory change/consultation guidelines, and recruitment compliance, with the ability to maintain accurate records and fair processes.
• Proficient in using ATS platforms, HR systems, and MS Office tools (Excel/PowerPoint), with the ability to track, analyse, and report on key People metrics.
• Good understanding of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) best practices and how to embed them across candidate and employee journeys.

Desirable

• Familiarity with succession planning models, talent mapping, and internal mobility frameworks.
• Experience leveraging employer branding and marketing approaches to enhance candidate attraction and engagement.
• Understanding of shifting skill demands and trends within regulated sectors (e.g. Financial Services).

Experience and Qualifications

Essential

• Proven track record in People Initiatives, including consultation processes, restructures and strategic people projects.
• Solid experience managing end-to-end direct recruitment pipelines, head hunting and candidate journeys across varied roles.

Desirable

• Proven experience designing and embedding internal succession planning and talent matrix frameworks.
• Proven experience working within the Financial Sector, with a solid understanding of recruiting and managing change within a highly regulated environment.
• CIPD Level 5 qualification (or equivalent professional HR qualification).

Sounds like you?

We at Bspoke are ready so if this role sounds like you apply today. If we’re lucky to be inundated with quality applications we may close the application early, so what are you waiting for?