Seccl

Interim Head of People

Seccl

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £100,000 - £120,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Partnering with the CEO and exec team to ensure people strategy is fully aligned to business goals and growth plans
  • Holding senior leaders to account for embedding our culture and role-modelling our operating principles
  • Leading organisational readiness for Enhanced SMCR, strengthening governance, accountability frameworks and regulatory learning
  • Shaping organisational design and workforce plans to ensure we have the right skills, structure and succession in place
  • Preparing the business for European expansion, including hiring, policy localisation and operational setup
  • Driving the evolution of our hybrid and location strategy, including office moves, future footprint planning and health & safety oversight
  • Supporting responsible AI adoption across the business, ensuring our approach enhances productivity and innovation while maintaining fairness, compliance and strong ways of working
  • Overseeing performance and engagement frameworks, ensuring insight from feedback and survey data translates into clear action
  • Acting as an escalation point for complex people relations and regulatory matters, ensuring fair, consistent and compliant outcomes
  • Leading and enabling the People team, setting priorities, running quarterly planning and ensuring operational excellence across the full people lifecycle
  • Partnering with Finance on reward strategy, salary reviews, executive incentives and long-term workforce cost planning

Requirements

  • You’ve led a people function in a scaling, commercially driven and regulated environment
  • You have direct experience of SMCR and ideally Enhanced firm governance requirements
  • You’re confident operating at exec and Board level, able to influence and hold senior leaders to account
  • You bring strong organisational design and workforce planning capability
  • You have deep knowledge of UK employment law and regulatory people risk (European experience desirable)
  • You balance strategic clarity with operational pragmatism and are comfortable rolling up your sleeves
  • You’re calm in ambiguity and energised by growth, change and evolving complexity
  • You lead through others, building trust quickly while combining empathy with accountability
Benefits
  • 27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday + three days (full time) per year for Dependant leave
  • Two volunteering days per year
  • 6% employer pension contribution, and life assurance
  • Private medical insurance with AXA Health
  • Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year
  • Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via Headspace
  • Financial wellbeing initiatives including access to will writing offering via Octopus Legacy and Seccl invest (our own platform for you to manage your investments)
  • Perkbox – Flexi-points giving you a range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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