Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Corporate Functions in London

About the Business

Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation. Quilter oversees £157.4 billion in customer investments (as of August 2026). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth.

Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business. High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning – offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues. Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!

About the Role

Department: Talent Acquisition
Location: London, EC4V 4AY
Hybrid: 3 days in office

The Senior Talent Acquisition Partner is a specialist capability focused on complex, targeted and business critical talent challenges where established recruitment approaches are unlikely to be sufficient. This role would be great for someone who wants to do much more than manage vacancies. Someone who loves the search. Who enjoys getting under the skin of a market, finding brilliant people who aren’t necessarily looking, understanding where talent is moving and spotting skills before they become difficult to find.

This Senior Talent Acquisition Partner role combines complex end-to-end recruitment with deeper talent intelligence, market insight, market mapping and proactive talent identification. You will use internal and external data to understand talent availability, identify critical and emerging skills and shape effective talent strategies. Our business is transforming, modernising and becoming increasingly customer‑centric, while building on the expertise that supports hundreds of thousands of customers. Against a growing focus on financial literacy and access to financial advice, attracting the right skills and capabilities has an important role to play in our future.

You’ll combine strategic thinking with hands‑on delivery, predominantly supporting our corporate functions, using your understanding of external talent markets to strengthen immediate hiring outcomes while building the talent pipelines and market knowledge we need for the future. Working alongside the TA Operations squad, you will proactively identify opportunities to collaborate where combining talent intelligence, market expertise and recruitment delivery can improve outcomes. Both have distinct areas of accountability but work together where their combined expertise will create greater value for the business.

As a Senior Talent Partner, you’ll be responsible for:

• Building sourcing plans, leading stakeholder engagement, and building scalable hiring solutions across Quilter.
• Taking a lead in the formation and execution of a best in‑class talent strategy.
• Shaping and delivering targeted talent strategies that enable Quilter's long‑term growth.
• Acting as a trusted talent adviser to senior leaders, using market insight, workforce data and external trends to influence hiring decisions and workforce planning.
• Building and nurturing talent communities for critical and emerging skill areas.
• Leading proactive talent intelligence activities, including market mapping, competitor analysis and succession talent identification.
• Designing and executing targeted talent attraction campaigns that strengthen Quilter's employer brand.
• Creating compelling candidate experiences through personalised engagement, innovative content and data‑driven recruitment journeys.
• Providing evidence‑based advice and appropriate challenge on talent availability, role design, location, skills, assessment, reward positioning and sourcing strategy.
• Collaborating with I&D team to drive inclusive hiring practices.
• Leveraging hiring data, market intelligence and operational insights to identify opportunities.
• Championing the use of AI, automation and emerging recruitment technologies.
• Designing, building and optimising AI‑enabled workflows.
• Collaborating with the TA Operations squad on shared talent challenges.
• Measuring the effectiveness of talent intelligence through its impact on hiring decisions.
• Proactively identifying opportunities to collaborate with Talent Acquisition Partners.

About You

Significant experience in talent acquisition, search, talent intelligence or strategic recruitment within complex, fast‑paced organisations. Comfortable moving across different talent markets and partnering with a diverse range of hiring communities. Your experience could span areas such as Finance, Risk, Compliance, Legal, HR, Marketing, Operations, Strategy or other corporate and professional functions. Experience collaborating with senior leadership, up to Exco level. Demonstrable success delivering complex, targeted or business‑critical recruitment assignments.

Strong experience creating and maintaining high‑quality pipelines of passive talent aligned with current and future business requirements. Skilled in developing targeted sourcing strategies informed by skills, geography, talent availability and competitor markets. Experience producing and applying market maps, competitor analysis, talent research and workforce intelligence. Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to connect talent priorities and market insight to business strategy and organisational outcomes.

Proven ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders, building credibility through expertise, insight and delivery. Highly collaborative, with the ability to work effectively across TA and broader HR to deliver stronger talent outcomes. Able to translate complex intelligence into clear recommendations and practical hiring action. Demonstrable success building talent communities for critical, emerging or hard‑to‑find skills.

Able to collaborate effectively with TA delivery teams, agreeing role ownership, hand‑offs and shared measures of success. Comfortable managing multiple workstreams while maintaining a high‑quality stakeholder and candidate experience. Passionate about innovation and willing to challenge traditional recruitment approaches. AI‑first mindset, with practical experience embedding AI into day‑to‑day workflows.

Comfortable building and testing workflows using Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Claude or similar technologies. Able to design, test and implement AI‑enabled solutions, automation, prompts or agents that improve recruiter productivity, candidate experience and hiring manager engagement.

Inclusion & Diversity

We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.

Values

• Do the right thing: We act with integrity and are proudly committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and the support we provide our communities.
• Always curious: We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge so we’re one step ahead of our clients’ needs.
• Embrace challenge: We aim high to transform our potential into meaningful outcomes.
• Stronger together: Combining our diverse talents, we accomplish more collectively than we ever could do alone.

Core Benefits

• Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
• Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.
• Pension Scheme: A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
• Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.
• Life Assurance: 4x your salary.
• Income Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
• Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only.

We create brighter financial futures for every generation. We do this by guiding our customers and their families through the complexity of planning for their financial future, responding to their rapidly evolving needs and giving them peace of mind. And, with all that’s happening in the world today, our role in society has never been more meaningful. Our impressive talents and capabilities set us apart, but our unwavering commitment to our customers is what defines us. We truly believe that we have all the ingredients to be the very best in our industry, and we want great people with the care and creativity that we need, to help us get there.

We are passionate about building an inclusive culture where everyone’s contribution is valued, and our people can thrive. No matter what your role is or where you sit, your voice will matter. We hope you like what you hear and are interested in learning more about joining us. We believe our workplace needs to work for you, so we offer an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so our talent acquisition team are on hand to discuss your needs.

We are committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect. Our people come from all kinds of backgrounds and have a wide range of expertise, so we welcome your application regardless of your beliefs, culture, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation and or disability. Please contact the talent acquisition team if you need any reasonable adjustments made to the recruitment process, require information in an alternative format or have any questions around accessibility, we will try our very best to accommodate.