At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and grow our Talent and Culture service, shaping impactful people solutions.
- Company: Join a full-service HR consultancy that genuinely cares about people and businesses.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working, career growth support, and generous leave.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for personal and professional development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by solving complex workforce and culture challenges for clients.
- Qualifications: Significant experience in talent, culture, or people solutions with strong commercial acumen.
The predicted salary is between 67000 - 67000 £ per year.
Location: This is a hybrid role where you'll be based from home with some travel for meetings. Candidates ideally will be based within reasonable travelling distance to the South East or South West of England.
Job Type: Full‑time (minimum 30 hours per week)
Salary: Starting from £67,000 (FTE) per annum. We offer a competitive salary package aligned with current market rates for this role. The final offer will reflect your skills, experience and qualifications, alongside our commitment to internal equity.
About us: We’re a full‑service HR consultancy that partners with clients to help their people and businesses thrive. Sometimes we act as their in‑house HR team, sometimes as an extension of their existing people team, but always as a trusted partner that genuinely cares.
The role: As Head of Talent and People Solutions, you'll be accountable for the quality, performance, reputation and commercial success of Fitzgerald's Talent and Culture service. This is a senior, hands‑on leadership role. You'll balance strategic ownership of the function with leading complex client work, developing specialist capability, and delivering commercially sound, values‑led outcomes for clients. You'll lead and grow our Talent and Culture service, bringing together talent strategy, resourcing, reward, learning and organisational development, and people technology to help clients solve complex people and business challenges. You'll work closely with our People Services Director (Specialist Expertise) and partner seamlessly with Employee Relations and People Partnering colleagues — ensuring clients receive joined‑up, practical and impactful people solutions.
What you’ll be doing:
- Leading and growing the Talent and Culture service
- Owning the strategy, positioning and growth of Fitzgerald's Talent and Culture service
- Shaping and evolving our offer across talent, reward, learning and organisational development, and people technology
- Ensuring our services remain commercially strong, relevant and impactful for clients
- Leading senior client relationships and delivery
- Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, Executive teams and Boards
- Leading high‑value and complex client engagements and helping organisations solve workforce, leadership and culture challenges
- Maintaining oversight of delivery quality and client outcomes across the function
- Leading the Talent and Resourcing function
- Leading and developing the Talent Strategy and Resourcing function
- Supporting and coaching the Talent Strategy and Resourcing Manager
- Ensuring recruitment and workforce solutions are commercially effective and deliver strong outcomes for clients
- Continuing to strengthen the capability, consistency and reputation of the talent offer
- Driving growth
- Growing revenue, profitability and client relationships through exceptional delivery
- Leading conversations with prospective and existing clients to understand their challenges and shape commercially relevant solutions
- Developing proposals, scopes of work and service offerings that create value for clients and support sustainable growth
- Building and managing a high‑quality network of specialists and associates
- Developing capability across the function and contributing to Fitzgerald's wider growth plans
About you: You’re a commercially minded people leader who combines specialist expertise with a broad understanding of how talent, culture and people solutions come together to help organisations succeed. You’ll bring:
- Significant experience leading and delivering work in at least one specialist area such as learning and organisational development, reward, talent or people technology
- Broad understanding of how specialist people solutions connect together to solve wider business challenges
- Experience operating in a commercially accountable, client‑facing leadership role
- Experience growing services, revenue or client solutions within a consultancy or professional services environment
- Confidence leading senior client relationships and influencing at Executive or Board level
- Experience building or managing associate, contractor or specialist delivery models
- Strong commercial acumen, including scoping, pricing and delivering profitable work
- Experience balancing strategic leadership with hands‑on delivery
You’ll also be:
- A clear, credible and engaging communicator
- Commercially aware and solutions‑focused
- Calm under pressure and comfortable navigating ambiguity
- Organised, detail‑focused and able to manage multiple priorities
- Collaborative, low‑ego and invested in developing others
- Curious, adaptable and open to learning
CIPD Level 7, an OD/HR qualification, or equivalent experience is also desirable. You’ll ideally need to be based in the South East or South West of England, hold a UK driving licence and be happy to travel occasionally as part of the role.
The Perks:
- Competitive salary (starting from £67,000 per annum FTE)
- 25 days’ annual leave to start, rising to 27 after one year and 29 after two years, plus bank holidays
- Career qualifications supported and paid for, with real opportunities to grow
- Monthly homeworking allowance and all equipment provided
- Flexible working patterns for a healthy work‑life balance
- Pension scheme options (including salary sacrifice) and 4% employer pension contributions, with a minimum 4% employee contribution
- Life assurance at four times basic salary
- Shopping discounts platform, flu vaccinations, and technology and cycle‑to‑work schemes
- Medicash health cash plan and wellbeing benefits (including EAP)
- Enhanced family leave and twice‑yearly staff get‑togethers
- A growing, progressive business with people at its heart
We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
Head of Talent and People Solutions in London employer: Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald is an exceptional employer that prioritises the growth and well-being of its employees, offering a competitive salary starting from £67,000 and a comprehensive benefits package including flexible working patterns, generous annual leave, and support for career qualifications. With a strong focus on collaboration and inclusivity, Fitzgerald fosters a progressive work culture where employees can thrive, develop their skills, and contribute to meaningful client solutions in a hybrid role based in the South East or South West of England.
