Executive Search Partner

Hybrid working - Three days in the office, two days working from home.

About the role

This role sits within BT's Leadership, Talent & Culture team and is accountable for end-to-end executive search activity across BT Business, supporting critical leadership appointments and future succession needs.

Partnering closely with senior leaders, you'll use executive search expertise, market intelligence and talent insight to identify, attract and secure exceptional leadership talent. You'll work as a trusted advisor to the business, helping leaders understand the talent landscape, challenge assumptions and build diverse pipelines that support both current and future capability requirements.

This is a highly visible role, offering the opportunity to influence senior stakeholders, shape hiring strategy and support some of BT's most important leadership decisions.

Why this role is different

Unlike many executive search roles, you'll have the opportunity to become deeply embedded within a single business unit, developing a detailed understanding of its strategy, challenges and future leadership needs.

You'll build long-term relationships with senior stakeholders, influence succession discussions and play a key role in shaping the leadership capability needs for the future.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading executive search assignments from brief through to appointment.
• Developing search strategies aligned to business priorities and future capability needs.
• Building market maps, talent intelligence and diverse leadership pipelines.
• Identifying, engaging and attracting passive executive talent.
• Advising senior stakeholders on talent availability, market dynamics and hiring strategy.
• Partnering with Talent, Executive Reward and HR colleagues to support succession planning and leadership capability discussions.
• Delivering a seamless, high-touch experience for both candidates and hiring leaders.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships across external talent networks and executive search partners.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Strong executive search expertise gained within an executive search firm, in-house executive recruitment function, or a combination of both, with advanced capability in market mapping, research strategy and passive candidate engagement.
• Proven experience delivering complex executive and senior leadership searches end-to-end, providing insight that supports effective leadership hiring decisions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the credibility and confidence to constructively challenge and partner with senior leaders.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Commercial curiosity and the ability to translate business strategy into talent strategy.
• A track record of building diverse leadership candidate pipelines.
• Strong candidate management and offer negotiation experience

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle.

Your core benefits include:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.