Global Head of Internal Talent - London - Full Time Permanent.

A leading London-based private investment and growth platform is seeking a Global Head of Internal Talent to lead recruitment across the group and its portfolio businesses.

This is a senior, highly visible role operating at the centre of a fast-paced entrepreneurial ecosystem spanning professional services, advisory, recruitment, technology-enabled services, and founder-led growth businesses across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and North America.

The position goes beyond traditional in-house recruitment. The successful individual will act as both a strategic talent leader and a commercially minded operator, partnering closely with portfolio founders, leadership teams, and investors to support hiring, organisational scale, business growth, and talent strategy across multiple ventures. A strong background within recruitment, executive search, or talent consultancy is essential. This role is particularly well suited to someone who has built, scaled, managed, or operated within a recruitment business environment and understands the commercial realities of founder-led growth businesses.

Key responsibilities:

• Leading internal talent acquisition across the group and its portfolio companies globally

• Acting as a strategic hiring partner to founders, CEOs, and portfolio leadership teams

• Managing senior and strategically important searches from brief through to onboarding

• Advising businesses on organisational design, hiring strategy, team structure, and scaling plans

• Supporting portfolio companies through periods of rapid growth, transformation, market expansion, and leadership build-out

• Building talent pipelines across investment, operational, commercial, leadership, and functional roles

• Working closely with senior stakeholders across both the investment platform and portfolio businesses

• Helping drive hiring quality, process improvement, and talent infrastructure across the wider group

What we're looking for:

• Strong executive search, recruitment consultancy, or talent leadership experience

• Experience running, managing, scaling, or owning a recruitment or search business is highly desirable

• Commercially minded with an understanding of how talent drives growth and enterprise value

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence founders, executives, and investors

• Experience operating across multiple sectors and business models

• High intellectual capability with the credibility to operate alongside sophisticated leadership teams

• Entrepreneurial mindset with comfort operating in fast-moving, evolving environments

• Strong delivery capability combined with strategic and consultative thinking

This is a rare opportunity to build and lead the talent function within one of the UK's most entrepreneurial investment platforms, working directly with founders, operators, and investors building high-growth businesses globally.

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