Head of Strategic Solutions Group in Nottingham

At MHR, our employees are central to our success and play a key role in helping customers achieve sustainable high performance. With a team of over 900 professionals, we work to make things flow smoothly, whether it’s for large organisations or individual employees. As businesses face rapid changes in the world of work, our team is here to help them adapt and thrive.

By focusing on the core needs of efficiency, productivity, growth, and impact, our employees use their expertise to deliver real solutions through our People and Finance platform. This system, which covers finance, HR, payroll, and learning, helps businesses run more smoothly and make better decisions in real time.

With over 40 years of experience behind us, MHR’s track record as a high-performance organisation is built on clear goals, a shared vision, and strong communication - all of which we pass on to our customers. MHR is more than just a place to work; it’s a platform for empowerment. Joining us means bringing innovation, technology, and teamwork seamlessly removes obstacles, enhances your skills, and allows you to focus on what’s most important to you - work that matters.

In this role, you will operate as a senior strategic leader shaping the earliest and most influential stages of the customer journey. As the Head of Strategic Solutions, you will develop deep expertise across transformation strategy, industry trends, and modern technology—particularly artificial intelligence. You will hone your abilities as a Challenger advisor, elevating conversations with senior stakeholders through insight, storytelling, and commercial creativity. By setting methodologies, defining solution design standards, and curating thought leadership, you will establish yourself as a trusted, forward-thinking voice in the market and within MHR.

Your Team: You will lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing team of strategic advisors and solution consultants, cultivating a culture built on curiosity, rigour, inclusivity, and high performance. Working within Revenue Operations, your team will collaborate cross-functionally across the organisation, supporting strategic pursuits and contributing to major initiatives. You will guide the team in building compelling business cases, shaping transformation journeys, and engaging confidently with senior executives, ensuring alignment with MHR’s commercial goals and cultural ambitions. As the organisation’s AI thought leadership lead, you will empower the team and customers to navigate and apply AI with confidence.

Your Impact: Your leadership will shape how customers understand their challenges, reimagine their transformation journeys, and connect ambition with modern technology. You will influence the earliest stages of major opportunities—driving clarity, reframing assumptions, and delivering strategic insight that positions MHR as a visionary partner. By overseeing solution design workshops, championing change management, and producing high-quality thought leadership, you will elevate MHR’s profile across public and private sectors. Your work will strengthen MHR’s reputation as an innovative, trusted advisor and accelerate the company’s commercial growth through strategic engagement and future-focused thinking.

Benefits to support you personally and professionally: Alongside the opportunity to work with an incredible team and express your individuality, we offer a range of personalised benefits including:

• Access to over 60 internal training courses, professional qualifications, and cross-departmental mentoring and coaching programs
• 24/7 access to a GP through Help at Hand for you and your family, confidential mental health support, and paid sick leave
• Ability to purchase or sell additional holiday days beyond 25 days and bank holidays
• Enhanced Family leave
• My MHRewards offering discounts at over 900 retailers
• Monthly employee recognition program and departmental awards
• Referral bonus scheme of up to £2,000
• Employee-led social events such as running clubs, football teams, book clubs, and bake-offs
• On-site subsidised restaurants offering a variety of fresh meals daily
• Opt-in benefits schemes such as private medical insurance and dental coverage

We value the well-being, financial stability, and inclusivity of our employees, and strive to provide a supportive working environment. At MHR, we’re completely committed to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where all voices are heard, and everyone feels valued and supported. Whatever your background, abilities and experiences, if you’re excited by this role we want to hear from you. If you require assistance for an interview, please let us know and we’ll make sure your needs are met when you arrive.

If we receive an exceptionally high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than originally advertised.