Head of People & HR Transformation Consulting

Head of People & HR Transformation Consulting

Salary: £110,000 + 20% Bonus (up to 40%) + £6,600 Car Allowance

Location: London/Hybrid

Build a consulting practice, not just join one.

Work with Ministers, Senior Civil Servants and C-suite leaders.

Lead large-scale workforce and HR transformation programmes.

Shape a new consulting capability backed by a major established organisation.

The Opportunity

This is a unique opportunity to form part of the leadership team for a newly established consulting capability within a major international technology, business services and transformation organisation.

The organisation is not a start-up. It is a large, well-established, enterprise-scale business with significant capability across consulting, technology, operations, AI-enabled transformation and managed services. What is new is the dedicated consulting entity and the opportunity to build a specialist People & HR Transformation practice from the beginning.

You will work with HR Directors, Chief People Officers, COOs, Transformation Leaders, Senior Civil Servants, Director-level public servants, ministers, politicians and wider public sector leadership teams to design and deliver workforce strategies, HR operating models and large-scale sustainable transformation outcomes that put people at the centre.

This role is uniquely positioned to combine advisory-led transformation with industrialised, scalable delivery. You will act as the bridge between strategy and execution, shaping transformation agendas while ensuring they are successfully delivered at scale through operational, AI and technology-enabled capability.

The core objective is to drive profitable growth, win and deliver complex transformation programmes, and establish a differentiated People & HR consulting practice that achieves tangible outcomes for clients.

Role Responsibilities

Relationship, Sales & Bid Leadership

• Define and own the People & HR consulting vision, market positioning, value propositions, commercial models and go-to-market plans.
• Build and maintain senior relationships with HRDs, CPOs, Transformation Leaders, COOs, Senior Civil Servants, Director-level public servants and wider executive stakeholders.
• Originate and convert sales opportunities, particularly those aligned to outsourcing, managed services and large-scale transformation.
• Lead the full sales lifecycle, including qualification, solution design, proposal development and commercial negotiation.
• Lead public sector framework opportunities, competitive bids and major pitch presentations.
• Develop tailored recommendations and solutions that respond to complex client needs.
• Use your senior client network to drive growth and account expansion.
• Develop thought leadership and support market-facing activity including events, roundtables and conference speaking.

Client Delivery & Engagement Leadership

• Lead end-to-end workforce and HR transformation programmes from strategy through to implementation and benefits realisation.
• Act as Engagement Lead on large-scale programmes, providing senior oversight, subject matter expertise and client relationship management.
• Manage governance, risk, financial performance and stakeholder alignment.
• Ensure consulting outputs are clearly aligned to scalable operational and technology-enabled delivery models.
• Deliver measurable outcomes for clients, including improved service performance, cost reduction, workforce effectiveness and sustainable change.

Practice Development & Leadership

• Build and grow a differentiated People & HR Transformation consulting practice.
• Develop integrated offerings that combine advisory, technology, operational delivery and AI-enabled transformation.
• Create reusable assets, methodologies and thought leadership.
• Recruit, coach and develop consulting talent.
• Lead performance management, capability building and team development.
• Own revenue, margin and utilisation targets for the practice.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience leading workforce, people, HR or organisational transformation programmes.
• Strong consulting background or significant experience scoping and leading complex transformation in relevant sectors.
• Existing network of senior clients across Government, Public Sector, Financial Services, Utilities or other regulated environments.
• Track record of originating and closing sales, writing formal bids and leading pitch presentations.
• Experience designing technology-enabled solutions that address complex client problems.
• Experience leading AI and technology-enabled transformation programmes that deliver tangible outcomes.
• Experience developing consulting propositions, methodologies and go-to-market plans.
• Deep expertise across workforce strategy, workforce planning, HR operating models, HR shared services, HR process transformation, change management, communications and adoption.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with the ability to convert client conversations into new work.
• Ability to lead, inspire and develop high-performing teams.

Why Join?

This is a rare chance to build a consulting practice from the ground up while being backed by a major, established organisation with significant scale, delivery capability, client reach and investment. You will have genuine influence over proposition development, market positioning, team growth, client strategy and revenue generation.

For a senior consulting leader who wants ownership, visibility and the opportunity to build something meaningful, this is a career-defining role.

SC Clearance (Desirable)

Due to the nature of the client portfolio, candidates must either hold active Security Clearance (SC) or be eligible and willing to undergo SC vetting. Many engagements will involve working within sensitive Government and Public Sector environments.