Senior Manager – Executive Hiring & Talent Intelligence | S4 | Talent CoE – Strategic Talent | Milton Keynes – Unity Place

Overview

In this role you will own UK ExCo-1 recruitment and onboarding, integrating talent intelligence with succession and development needs. You’ll shape external market insight into internal leadership decisions and ensure governance and risk-aware hiring. You will work within the Talent CoE to set UK standards and balance live hiring with proactive intelligence. This is a strategic, impact-driven position with no people management responsibility and a focus on leadership capability and preparedness.

Pay / Benefits

• 30 days’ holiday + bank holidays
• 6,000 car allowance
• company funded private medical insurance
• death-in-service and income protection
• share plans
• wellbeing programs and flexible health support

Responsibilities

• Define and implement the UK ExCo-1 recruitment strategy and operating model
• Lead sourcing, direct sourcing, and external search partnerships with vendor management
• Govern structured, bias-mitigated selection aligned to Group frameworks
• Own onboarding framework, 30-60-90 day plan, and first-year success measures
• Integrate internal and external talent intelligence with succession planning and leadership assessment
• Develop executive market maps and provide recommendations on readiness, mobility, and development needs
• Manage governance, compliance controls, and improve hiring quality and inclusion
• Balance priorities across live hiring, intelligence, relationships, and succession insights

Key requirements

• Experience owning executive recruitment strategy and end-to-end senior hiring
• Experience integrating executive market intelligence with succession and leadership assessment
• Experience advising ExCo and senior leaders using evidence-based insights
• Experience designing governance-focused executive selection and onboarding approaches
• Hard Skills: advanced market mapping, executive intelligence, benchmarking linked to workforce planning
• Knowledge of SMCR, FCA/PRA approvals, Fitness & Propriety with Compliance
• Ability to design structured interviews, interpret talent data, and develop preparedness measures
• Accreditation in executive assessment methodologies (KFLS, Hogan, SHL or equivalent) – preferred

• Executive-level influence and relationship management
• Commercial judgement and discretion with sensitive appointments
• Attention to detail under pressure
• Advanced market mapping and talent intelligence
• Executive assessment methodologies accreditation (KFLS, Hogan, SHL)
• Governance and compliance awareness (SMCR, FCA/PRA)

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