Executive Search Partner

**Company Description**
Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

**We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.**

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

We’re recruiting for a Executive Search Partner to join us.

You will lead the way in attracting exceptional senior talent aligned to our strategic priorities. This is a high-impact role focused on building diverse, forward-looking leadership pipelines and delivering a best-in-class executive hiring experience. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across the business, influencing hiring decisions through deep market insight, strategic thinking, and a strong understanding of the financial services landscape.

This is not a people management role, but it demands leadership presence, credibility, and the ability to collaborate effectively across senior stakeholder groups.

What you’ll be doing:

- Partnering with senior leaders to shape executive hiring strategies aligned with future capability needs
- Leading end-to-end executive search processes from briefing to offer negotiation
- Building and nurturing trusted networks across the financial services sector
- Delivering market insights and competitor intelligence to inform hiring decisions
- Managing relationships with external search partners to ensure quality and alignment
- Upholding governance frameworks and best practice throughout the hiring process
- Embedding Consumer Duty principles into executive hiring activity

**Qualifications**
Who we’re looking for:

- Deep understanding of the financial services sector and its leadership landscape
- Proven experience in executive search, either in-house or agency-side
- Strong stakeholder management skills with credibility at ExCo and Board level
- Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate insights into action
- Proficiency in executive search tools and platforms with a data-led approach
- Strategic thinker with the ability to influence and evolve hiring practices

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

- The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
- Generous pension contribution
- Life assurance
- Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
- At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
- Competitive family leave
- Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
- There are the many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
- In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

**Additional Information**

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.