Group Talent Lead

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