Head of Client Delivery | Private Client

Full-time

Region: UK, CI and Ireland

Jurisdiction: London

Fund services | Corporate | Capital markets | Private client | Regulatory & Compliance

We help clients succeed by unlocking new value through expertise, trust and scale. We deliver solutions that solve complex challenges faced by asset managers, financial institutions, corporates, high net-worth individuals and family offices. With a curious mindset, we ask the right questions to get to the right solution, faster. We collaborate to win together, sharing successes and shaping the future of our global business. Our culture of support and recognition provides the tools and opportunities for you to grow, while unlocking the most value for our clients and making your mark with Ocorian.

Expertise: We deliver specialist, tech-enabled solutions for our clients grounded on deep industry expertise.

Trust: We’re a trusted partner to over 8,000 clients globally. We are proud to have long‑lasting partnerships with our clients.

Scale: With more than 1,500 colleagues, we operate across 20+ countries, our scale enables us to support our clients globally and locally, providing a seamless client experience across borders and service lines.

Purpose of the job: The Head of Client Delivery role will focus on designing best practice, controlled and efficient procedures, deploy them into ongoing operational delivery and focus on continuous operational excellence by driving efficiency, automation through technology and observance of control environment.

Main responsibilities:

• Provide guidance, maintenance and communication of policies and procedures across jurisdictions, ensuring that they are well documented, remain current, consistent and aligned with global frameworks.
• Design and implement best practice, controlled, and efficient procedures for operational delivery, focusing on continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Establish and oversee business controls process across operations, to ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
• Drive efficiency and automation through the deployment of innovative technology solutions in operations.
• Collaborate with Group re. development and rollout of efficiency projects, including benefits realisation.
• Ensure consistent implementation and maintenance of third‑party outsourcing arrangements (including intragroup) to ensure compliance to regulatory and group standards and within pre‑approved budgets only.
• Enhance and maintain outstanding engagement and relations with global business stakeholders in pursuit of business growth and client focused service delivery based on best practice sharing and synergy creation.

Knowledge, skills and experience:

• Demonstrated experience leading and managing global operations teams.
• Proven ability to design, build and implement operational processes and procedures from the ground up.
• Strong capability in selecting and deploying technology solutions to enhance efficiency and support automation.
• Comprehensive understanding of operational controls and risk management frameworks, with practical experience applying them.
• Effective leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to work confidently alongside senior stakeholders and executive teams.
• Experience operating at senior management level, with strong influencing and communication skills.
• Skilled in driving operational discipline within a service‑delivery environment, including managing and prioritising complex workloads.

All staff are expected to embody our core values that underpin everything that we do and that reflect the skills and behaviours we all need to be successful. These are:

• CLIENT CENTRIC: Clients are at the centre of our world, and we’re committed to providing expertise and specialist solutions to meet their most complex challenges.
• AMBITIOUS: We aim high. We think and act globally, seizing every opportunity to delight our clients and support our colleagues - wherever in the world they may be.
• AGILE: We act on our initiative to get things done for our clients. Our independence gives us the flexibility and freedom to keep things simple, efficient and effective.
• COLLABORATIVE: With a curious mindset, we ask the right questions to get to the right solution, for our clients faster. We collaborate to win together and share our successes.
• ETHICAL: We behave with integrity at all times and assume positive intent, building trust through responsible actions and honest relationships.

Equal Opportunities for Everyone. Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you. You can reach us at careers@ocorian.com. We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.