Vice President, Global Head of Services, Knowledge & Innovation, HR & Talent Advisory, LHH
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Vice President, Global Headof Services, Knowledge & Innovation, HR & Talent Advisory
Overview
Our next-generation HR & Talent Advisory business helps organizations navigate the evolving dynamics of leadership, culture, talent, and change. We work with senior leaders to solve their most complex people challenges and we are building the intellectual backbone that will power this work for years to come.
We are seeking a visionary Vice President, Global Head of Services, Knowledge & Innovation to design, lead, and scale a function that will define our intellectual capital, shape our client offering, and drive market differentiation. This role will set the global direction for how we develop new ideas, bring them to market, and embed them into our client engagements.
You will set the vision, build the infrastructure, and embed a culture of innovation and excellence — ensuring our advisory services remain ahead of client needs and industry trends. This is both a strategic leadership role and a hands-on builder position in the first year, with full authority to design and implement the systems, standards, and offerings that will define our global advisory edge.
Reporting Relationships:
- Reports to the SVP, HR & Talent Advisory
- Direct reports: 2-4 FTE
Location:
- North America or UKI
Travel:
- Frequent Travel (20%)
What you’ll do
Key Responsibilities
- Define the vision, structure, and roadmap for the Advisory Services & Innovation function, ensuring it drives competitive differentiation, client value, and business growth.
- Lead the creation of high-impact Points of View on core human capital topics such as leadership, organizational design, culture, change, and talent strategy.
- Develop and maintain a portfolio of proprietary frameworks, methodologies, diagnostic tools, and solutions that can be applied globally.
- Integrate emerging technologies, including AI, machine learning, and data analytics, to enhance service delivery, insight generation, and innovation.
- Partner with consulting teams to capture insights from client engagements and translate them into scalable offerings.
- Commission and conduct original research, market intelligence, and trend analysis to anticipate client needs and inform future services.
- Make recommendations to engage with and collaborate with academic institutions, think tanks, and industry bodies to expand the firm’s expertise and visibility.
- Work with Marketing to transform internal innovations into compelling external thought leadership.
- Represent the firm externally at conferences, forums, and client events as a recognized leader in human capital advisory.
- Engage in client-facing interactions for marquee accounts, contributing to relationship-building, solution design, and delivery excellence.
- Represent the firm in strategic conversations with high-value clients, supporting proposal development, scoping, and opportunity identification.
- Hire, lead, and develop a high-performing team with capabilities in research, productization, and storytelling.
- Champion a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the organization.
Success in This Role Looks Like
- Advisory services that are distinctive, scalable, and embedded into every client engagement.
- Consultants equipped with innovative tools and insights that deliver measurable client impact.
- Increased recognition of the firm as a thought leader and innovator in human capital advisory.
- A strong, connected culture of idea-sharing and innovation across geographies and practices.
About you
Qualifications
- 10–15+ years of experience in management consulting, knowledge management, research, or enablement—preferably within human capital, HR, or organizational advisory.
- Proven experience creating knowledge assets: POVs, methodologies, frameworks, playbooks.
- Ideally strong in-house HR experience as a buyer or strategic decision maker, thus having a good understanding of the competitive landscape, client challenges and buying criteria.
- Demonstrated success in building or scaling a knowledge or consulting enablement function.
- Strong leadership, coaching, and cross-functional influence skills.
- Expertise with knowledge systems (e.g., SharePoint, Notion, Confluence) and information design.
What we offer
- Growth opportunities within a human resources global leader
- We foster an open-minded environment where people spark new ideas and explore alternatives
- Comprehensive benefits package including health, PTO, Paid Holidays
- Flexible working model
- Private medical insurance (PMI)
- Group personal pension plan
- Career support for family and friends
- 25 working days paid holiday with the opportunity to buy extra days off each year
- So much more!
About LHH
LHH empowers professionals and organizations to achieve bold ambitions and secure lasting impact through unique advisory services and talent sources.
Our full suite of offerings connects solutions that are traditionally siloed, making LHH your single talent partner. In a rapidly evolving landscape with complex challenges, we create value across the entire professional talent journey. From hiring great people, developing skills, and nurturing leaders, to advancing individuals to the next stage of their careers, LHH make talent your competitive edge.
We believe the future work lies at the intersection of exceptional human care and innovation. Powered by science, technology, and proprietary data analytics, LHH’s approach is crafted to align with your business strategy and culture, delivering powerful, sustainable, and measurable impact.
LHH has a team of over 12,000 professionals, across 60+ countries and more than 50 years of experience. As part of the Adecco Group, we bring together global excellence, local knowledge, and centralized coordination for thousands of companies and millions of people worldwide.
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LHH is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
For additional information on our Diversity and Inclusion policy, please consult the following link: https://www.lhh.com/uk/en/diversity-and-inclusion/
Posting date: 13-08-2025
Get to Know Us
Bringing together the complementary strengths of our various brands, our team unites through a powerful mission – to match the right talent with the right opportunity. We create synergies that meet the Talent needs of our customers wherever they are in their journey delivered in a technology-enabled and human-driven experience. At LHH, you’ll be empowered to deliver on our purpose of future-proofing organizations and careers, enabling workforce transformation.
Diversity & Inclusion at LHH
We are committed to making the future work for everyone. As a people business focused on providing talent solutions and advisory services, we envision a world in which everyone has the chance to participate in the world of work. Our aim is to acknowledge and appreciate diverse perspectives, encouraging inclusive decision-making processes that value each colleague's contributions, skills, experience, and potential. We work actively to create the conditions that support a culture and work environment of belonging, trust, and participation. Our approach to diversity and inclusion is built around several pillars that underpin our work, including structural and conscious inclusion, leadership, and accountability.
Culture
We are a high-performing and diverse team of people from all over the world, working together to make the future work for everyone. Our culture is shaped by our people, who are the key to our success. It is our people that give us the ability to influence the changing world of work on a global level with solutions that are grounded in the understanding and experience of local contexts. Together we offer exciting career paths to candidates and bring the best talent to our clients. To make this possible, investing in our people, an open culture of communication, and individual opportunities for development are essential to us. There is a world of opportunity out there.
Learn more about LHH
We are the talent solutions business at the Adecco Group, an end-to-end solutions partner, addressing the skills and transformation needs of our customers to drive growth. Our mission is to match the right talent with the right opportunity. Bringing together the complementary strengths of our various brands, we create synergies that meet the needs of our customers wherever they are in their transformation journeys. As a member of the team, you’ll be empowered, inspired and energized to deliver on our purpose to future-proof organizations and careers by building the right capabilities and enabling workforce transformation. We reach high and strive for excellence because we know our work makes a difference.
Success profile
Are we the right fit for each other? Have a look at the traits we're looking for. (1 Beginner – 10 Expert)
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Evolve with purpose Being passionate about meaningful work and ready to change the world.10
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Win together Being able to build relationships through trust, transparency, and collaboration so that together we all succeed.8
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Own it Being empowered to make decisions and take accountability for the results.10
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Reach high Agile and adaptable - fast mover - ability to anticipate future client and candidates needs.9
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Make it fun Delivering our purpose, staying energized and inspired, while having fun with colleagues.8
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