Talent Partner

Location: London

Contract: 12-month fixed term

Sector: Professional Services / Strategy & Advisory

Overview: We are partnering with a leading global management consulting organisation to appoint a Senior Manager-level Talent Partner on a 12-month fixed term contract. This role sits within a highly regarded People function supporting multiple client-facing business groups. It operates at senior level, working directly with Partners and Directors to advise on workforce decisions, leadership capability, and performance outcomes across a fast-paced, matrixed environment. The position requires an experienced HR Business Partner or Talent professional who is comfortable influencing senior stakeholders and shaping talent outcomes in a high-performance, commercially driven setting.

Key Responsibilities

• Talent Advisory & Business Partnering: Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across multiple consulting practices. Translate business priorities into practical, commercially relevant talent and people decisions. Support consistency in how talent and promotion decisions are made across teams, while balancing differing business needs. Provide clear, pragmatic advice on leadership, capability and organisational challenges.
• Workforce Planning & Capability: Partner with senior stakeholders on workforce planning and capacity discussions, balancing demand, utilisation, and capability requirements. Use data and insight to support forward-looking decisions on hiring, development, and succession. Work closely with recruitment and analytics teams to ensure visibility of talent pipelines and future needs.
• Performance, Promotion & Development: Lead and support senior performance and promotion cycles, ensuring robust, fair and well-governed outcomes. Identify high-potential individuals and support leaders in building targeted development plans. Coach managers on performance, progression, and leadership effectiveness, particularly in complex or sensitive cases. Support succession planning and leadership pipeline reviews across multiple business groups. Contribute to continuous improvement of talent processes to ensure they remain effective in a fast-moving environment. Maintain strong governance and documentation standards for senior talent decisions.
• Stakeholder Management: Build strong, credible relationships with senior stakeholders operating in a demanding, high-performance environment. Manage competing priorities across business groups and help drive alignment where needed. Confidently handle sensitive or complex people matters with discretion and sound judgement.

Candidate Profile

• Experienced HR Business Partner / Talent Partner from a complex, matrixed organisation.
• Background in professional services, consulting, or similarly fast-paced, client-facing environment strongly preferred.
• Strong capability in workforce planning, talent development, and performance management cycles.
• Analytical and commercially minded, with the ability to use data to inform decisions.
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence, challenge, and build trusted relationships.
• Able to operate effectively in ambiguous, high-pressure environments with competing priorities.

This is a high-profile role within a globally recognised consulting environment, offering direct exposure to senior leadership and significant influence over how talent is developed, deployed, and progressed across the organisation. The role requires someone who can balance structure and governance with commercial pragmatism, and who is comfortable operating across multiple stakeholder groups in a fast-moving, high-expectation setting.

At C&C Search, diversity, equity and inclusion are at the core of who we are and how we operate. Our commitment to these values is unwavering - across all our work in recruitment, and in our training and development programmes. C&C Search fosters a culture of inclusion and belonging and has a deep commitment to being a part of creating a fairer society through partnering with clients who are also committed to a seat at the table for everybody. We work with companies that are committed to reflecting our communities, where people can bring their authentic selves to work. We know that having varied perspectives helps generate better ideas, better businesses and better societies. There is much to be done, but together we can achieve equality for all.