Managing Partner – Growth Advisory — Digital Lending Portfolio

The mandate

The enterprise is entering a phase in which leadership must resolve a growth-advisory practice seeking a second engine beyond a small anchor-client base within a multinational-owned diversified financial-services platform. The immediate arena is the digital lending portfolio during a capital-allocation reset. For mandate 036, the successful executive inherits decisions that have been deferred, competing stakeholder expectations and a need to establish facts before committing further capital.

The Managing Partner – Growth Advisory operating perimeter covers approximately £4,050 million in assets under oversight, with activity spanning several digital lending portfolio customer, product and delivery clusters rather than a single asset. The Managing Partner – Growth Advisory Financial Services remit carries direct influence over roughly 150 colleagues and third-party capacity.

The group board and the relevant risk and people committees want a Managing Partner – Growth Advisory who can convert ambiguity into a short list of explicit choices for the digital lending portfolio. The Managing Partner – Growth Advisory Financial Services seat must resolve a capital-allocation reset, while preserving the underlying strengths of the digital lending portfolio. For mandate 036, value will come through sharper allocation, stronger leaders and an operating cadence that exposes variance early.

The Managing Partner – Growth Advisory’s first year on the digital lending portfolio is expected to end with origination diversity, partner leverage and recurring board mandates. In mandate 036, authority covers resources and leadership appointments; material trade-offs go directly to the board sponsor.

Why this seat is open

This is a planned replacement for the Managing Partner – Growth Advisory — Digital Lending Portfolio seat. The incumbent continues to lead the digital lending portfolio through an agreed succession period and will support a structured handover. The board has allowed 4–6 months to assess candidates, complete diligence and protect continuity while a capital-allocation reset is addressed. The search is confidential so the transition can be communicated to employees, customers and partners in a controlled sequence.

What you will own

• Set the Managing Partner – Growth Advisory value-creation thesis for the digital lending portfolio, translate it into no more than five enterprise priorities and stop work that does not support them.
• Carry stewardship of approximately £4,050 million in assets under oversight, including allocation, risk acceptance and board forecasts.
• Lead the Managing Partner – Growth Advisory Financial Services organisation of about 150 employees and partners, appointing a team with clear decision rights and credible succession for every critical seat.
• Resolve the digital lending portfolio economics and execution constraints created by a capital-allocation reset, with Managing Partner – Growth Advisory-approved owners, dated milestones and transparent escalation thresholds.
• Establish one Managing Partner – Growth Advisory operating review across commercial, customer, financial, people, technology and risk outcomes for the digital lending portfolio; remove reconciliations that obscure accountability.
• Bring a verifiable book of trusted board relationships and evidence of building partner economics beyond personal billings in mandate 036.
• Build the Managing Partner – Growth Advisory’s three-year succession and capability plan for the digital lending portfolio, reducing dependence on individual executives and improving mobility across the wider Financial Services organisation.

The first 12 months

• Days 1–90: Validate the digital lending portfolio baseline, meet the 30 stakeholders most consequential to a growth-advisory practice seeking a second engine beyond a small anchor-client base, assess the leadership team, stabilise immediate delivery risks and agree a board-owned scorecard with explicit decision gates.
• Months 4–9: Make the principal Managing Partner – Growth Advisory portfolio and organisation choices for the digital lending portfolio, install the new operating cadence, fill critical leadership gaps and deliver the first measurable release of cash, capacity or customer value.
• Months 10–12: Demonstrate a repeatable digital lending portfolio trend against origination diversity, partner leverage and recurring board mandates, lock the following year’s capital and talent plan, evidence control sustainability and present a credible three-year value case with downside actions.

What the board will measure

• Delivery of the Managing Partner – Growth Advisory’s agreed first-year digital lending portfolio value case within a 10% tolerance, with variance explained before rather than after the relevant quarter closes.
• A Managing Partner – Growth Advisory forecast that remains decision-useful across three consecutive quarters and reconciles the digital lending portfolio’s operating, cash, customer and people assumptions.
• Closure of the Managing Partner – Growth Advisory mandate’s highest-priority digital lending portfolio risk and execution issues by their board-approved dates, with independent evidence that fixes are sustained.
• Retention of at least 90% of critical digital lending portfolio talent and ready-now successors for at least 70% of the Managing Partner – Growth Advisory’s direct reports.
• A quantified Managing Partner – Growth Advisory-owned improvement in the digital lending portfolio operating constraint behind a capital-allocation reset, supported by a clean baseline and named data owner.
• Clear stakeholder confidence in mandate 036: no unresolved high-severity escalation older than 30 days and no material surprise withheld from its agreed governance forum.

The person

You are currently a Managing Partner, Growth Practice Head or Senior Partner in a multinational-owned Financial Services or adjacent enterprise. In relation to the digital lending portfolio, your Managing Partner – Growth Advisory track record includes a transition where the original plan was no longer sufficient; you can explain your choices, evidence and numerical impact. Candidates from banking, insurance, payments, wealth or regulated fintech will be considered where the operating model, customer stakes and governance intensity match this Managing Partner – Growth Advisory brief.

As a Managing Partner – Growth Advisory candidate, you bring 28+ years of progressive Financial Services or adjacent-sector experience, consistent with the 28-plus experience band. At minimum, you have carried a P&L, book, budget or accountable portfolio of £2,350 million and led an organisation of at least 100 people. Advisory seats require equivalent digital lending portfolio client-value ownership and multi-disciplinary leadership.

For mandate 036, the board wants two transitions: a difficult digital lending portfolio portfolio choice and a leadership-system change during a capital-allocation reset. As the prospective Managing Partner – Growth Advisory for this digital lending portfolio, you must challenge optimistic cases and still create followership. References for mandate 036 must distinguish your contribution from the institution around you.

The Managing Partner – Growth Advisory must be based in London; international relocation is supported, but this Financial Services role is not designed as a remote appointment.

Non-negotiables

• Current or recent accountability at the level of Managing Partner, Growth Practice Head or Senior Partner, with direct exposure to a board, investment committee or equivalent Financial Services governance forum.
• Proven Managing Partner – Growth Advisory ownership of at least £2,350 million and leadership of no fewer than 100 employees in a comparable digital lending portfolio context.
• One completed Financial Services or adjacent-sector example of a growth-advisory practice seeking a second engine beyond a small anchor-client base with outcomes sustained for at least two reporting periods after the initial intervention.
• Sector credibility from banking, insurance, payments, wealth or regulated fintech; experience that is purely functional and lacks Managing Partner – Growth Advisory-level digital lending portfolio consequences will not meet the bar.
• Willingness to meet the London location expectation, complete conflicts and background diligence, and protect the confidentiality of mandate 036.

Compensation and terms

The anticipated Managing Partner – Growth Advisory package is £400,000–575,000 base + annual incentive and LTI, calibrated to the final digital lending portfolio scope and the candidate’s current mix. Any long-term participation for mandate 036 follows standard vesting and performance conditions. The Managing Partner – Growth Advisory appointment in London, centred on the digital lending portfolio, offers regular exposure to the group board and the relevant risk and people committees. A structured client and conflict transition of up to 6 months can be accommodated for mandate 036.

Confidentiality

The organisation will be identified only after reciprocal interest and a confidentiality undertaking for mandate 036. The market, scale and situation in this brief are intentionally composite and are not a coded description of a named enterprise for mandate 036.