Assistant to CEO Office

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About the role

This is a rare opportunity for an ambitious early-career consultant to move out of advisory work and into the heart of a major UK business, working directly alongside our CEO and Chief Transformation Officer.

Hargreaves Lansdown is entering an exciting period of change, with significant ambitions for growth, transformation and innovation. We are looking for someone with around 2–4 years’ experience in strategy, management consulting or a similarly demanding environment who wants to get much closer to how a business is led, how decisions get made and how strategy gets turned into action.

Sitting within the CEO Office, you will work directly with the CEO and Chief Transformation Officer, with exposure to the wider Executive team and some of HL’s most important strategic and transformation priorities.

This is deliberately a broad role. At different points you might be analysing an issue for an executive decision, building a presentation, preparing materials for a Board discussion, researching a strategic question, coordinating a transformation priority or making sure actions from an Executive meeting actually happen.

And, importantly, this is also a hands-on executive office role. You will support the CEO and Chief Transformation Officer with the practical organisation that enables them to operate effectively, including diary management, meeting coordination, logistics and day-to-day administrative support.

We are not looking for someone who wants to advise from the sidelines. We are looking for someone who wants to be in the room, close to the decisions and prepared to roll their sleeves up.

What you’ll do:

Work at the heart of our strategic agenda

• Support the CEO and Chief Transformation Officer on key strategic, commercial and transformation priorities.
• Structure and analyse complex business questions, turning information into clear insight and recommendations.
• Undertake market, competitor and industry research to inform executive decision‑making.
• Build high-quality analysis, business cases and presentations for Executive and Board discussions.
• Analyse business and commercial performance to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Support specific strategic, growth, transformation and corporate development initiatives as required.

Help turn decisions into action

• Maintain visibility of the CEO’s and Chief Transformation Officer’s key priorities and ensure important actions do not get lost.
• Track key Executive commitments, decisions and deliverables.
• Coordinate activity across functions and work with senior stakeholders to keep priorities moving.
• Help identify dependencies, risks and areas requiring executive intervention.
• Support strategic workshops, leadership sessions and Executive offsites.
• Bring structure and pace to ambiguous or fast-moving pieces of work.

Support transformation and innovation

• Work with the Chief Transformation Officer and teams across HL on priority transformation activity.
• Analyse opportunities to simplify how we work, improve productivity and reduce unnecessary complexity.
• Explore how AI, automation and new technology can improve processes, decision‑making and effectiveness.
• Support the development of practical AI and automation use cases.
• Help establish clear measures and reporting to understand whether…