The posting
About the Business
Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation. Quilter oversees £157.4 billion in customer investments (as of August 2026). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management.
The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth. Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business. High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning – offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.
At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues. Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!
About the Role
Department: Talent Acquisition
Location: London, EC4V 4AY
Hybrid: 3 days in office
The Senior Talent Acquisition Partner is a specialist capability focused on complex, targeted and business critical talent challenges where established recruitment approaches are unlikely to be sufficient. This role would be great for someone who wants to do much more than manage vacancies. Someone who loves the search. Who enjoys getting under the skin of a market, finding brilliant people who aren’t necessarily looking, understanding where talent is moving and spotting skills before they become difficult to find.
This Senior Talent Acquisition Partner role combines complex end-to-end recruitment with deeper talent intelligence, market insight, market mapping and proactive talent identification. You will use internal and external data to understand talent availability, identify critical and emerging skills and shape effective talent strategies.
Our business is transforming, modernising and becoming increasingly customer-centric, while building on the expertise that supports hundreds of thousands of customers. Against a growing focus on financial literacy and access to financial advice, attracting the right skills and capabilities has an important role to play in our future.
You’ll combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, predominantly supporting our corporate functions, using your understanding of external talent markets to strengthen immediate hiring outcomes while building the talent pipelines and market knowledge we need for the future.
Working alongside the TA Operations squad, you will proactively identify opportunities to collaborate where combining talent intelligence, market expertise and recruitment delivery can improve outcomes. Both have distinct areas of accountability but work together where their combined expertise will create greater value for the business.
- As a Senior Talent Partner, you’ll be responsible for building sourcing plans, leading stakeholder engagement, and building scalable hiring solutions across Quilter, as well as taking a lead in the formation and execution of a best in-class talent strategy.
- Shape and deliver targeted talent strategies that enable Quilter's long-term growth, ensuring we attract the skills and capabilities required for the future.
- Act as a trusted talent adviser to senior leaders, using market insight, workforce data and external trends to influence hiring decisions and workforce planning.
- Build and nurture talent communities for critical and emerging skill areas, creating sustainable pipelines before demand arises.
- Lead proactive talent intelligence activities, including market mapping, competitor analysis and succession talent identification across priority functions.
- Design and execute targeted talent attraction campaigns that strengthen Quilter's employer brand and position us competitively within the market.
- Create compelling candidate experiences through personalised engagement, innovative content and data-driven recruitment journeys.
- Provide evidence-based advice and appropriate challenge on talent availability, role design, location, skills, assessment, reward positioning and sourcing strategy.
- Collaborate with I&D team to drive inclusive hiring practices by embedding diverse sourcing strategies, equitable assessment approaches and evidence-based decision making.
- Leverage hiring data, market intelligence and operational insights to identify opportunities, remove friction and continuously improve outcomes.
- Champion the use of AI, automation and emerging recruitment technologies to create a more efficient and engaging experience for hiring managers and candidates.
- Design, build and optimise AI-enabled workflows, copilots and talent acquisition agents that automate administrative tasks, surface insights and enhance decision-making.
- Collaborate with the TA Operations squad on shared talent challenges, bringing together market intelligence, specialist search expertise and operational insight to develop effective talent solutions
- Measure the effectiveness of talent intelligence through its impact on hiring decisions, pipeline quality, talent accessibility and recruitment outcomes
- Proactively identify opportunities to collaborate with Talent Acquisition Partners where combining specialist talent intelligence and recruitment delivery will strengthen business outcomes.
About You
- Significant experience in talent acquisition, search, talent intelligence or strategic recruitment within complex, fast-paced organisations.
- Comfortable moving across different talent markets and partnering with a diverse range of hiring communities. Your experience could span areas such as Finance, Risk, Compliance, Legal, HR, Marketing, Operations, Strategy or other corporate and professional functions.
- Experience collaborating with senior leadership, up to Exco level
- Demonstrable success delivering complex, targeted or business-critical recruitment assignments.
- Strong experience creating and maintaining high-quality pipelines of passive talent aligned with current and future business requirements.
- Skilled in developing targeted sourcing strategies informed by skills, geography, talent availability and competitor markets.
- Experience producing and applying market maps, competitor analysis, talent research and workforce intelligence.
- Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to connect talent priorities and market insight to business strategy and organisational outcomes.
- Proven ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders, building credibility through expertise, insight and delivery.
- Highly collaborative, with the ability to work effectively across TA and broader HR to deliver stronger talent outcomes.
- Able to translate complex intelligence into clear recommendations and practical hiring action.
- Demonstrable success building talent communities for critical, emerging or hard-to-find skills.
- Able to collaborate effectively with TA delivery teams, agreeing role ownership, hand-offs and shared measures of success.
- Comfortable managing multiple workstreams while maintaining a high-quality stakeholder and candidate experience.
- Passionate about innovation and willing to challenge traditional recruitment approaches.
- AI-first mindset, with practical experience embedding AI into day-to-day workflows.
- Comfortable building and testing workflows using Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Claude or similar technologies.
- Able to design, test and implement AI-enabled solutions, automation, prompts or agents that improve recruiter productivity, candidate experience and hiring manager engagement.
Inclusion & Diversity
We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.
Values
Do the right thing: We act with integrity and are proudly committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and the support we provide our communities. Always curious: We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge so we’re one step ahead of our clients’ needs. We look for inspiration everywhere and encourage experimentation, recognising that this is how we create brilliant solutions for brighter futures. Embrace challenge: We aim high to transform our potential into meaningful outcomes. With ambition as our driving force and a steadfast commitment to growth, we succeed for the good of every generation. Stronger together: Combining our diverse talents, we accomplish more collectively than we ever could do alone. We speak openly, actively listen, and support each other, and constructively challenge and embrace new ideas. We seek empowerment and demonstrate ownership and trust, with the confidence to make impactful decisions.
Core Benefits
Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.
Pension Scheme: A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.
Life Assurance: 4x your salary.
Income Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only
In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.
