Sarah Moore

PwC UK Tax Leadership Team member and PwC UK Head of Purpose. People and Organisation Consulting Partner. Advisor to clients around the critical people and cultural aspects of M&A, workforce transformation and change.

Sarah joined PwC over 25 years ago as a HR administrator, before moving to a client facing role within the People in Deals team. Since then Sarah has held a number of leadership roles across the UK firm, most recently being appointed to the Tax leadership team as Market Leader for People and Organisation. As part of her role on the Tax Leadership team Sarah is responsible for setting and delivering the UK firm’s P&O business strategy and agenda, ensuring we deliver a holistic service to our clients across their organisation, wherever there are people or people impacts. The skills groups within P&O are; Reward & Employment, Pensions, Workforce Strategy & Culture, People in Deals, Employment Law and HR Transformation and Technology.

As Head of Purpose for the UK firm Sarah is also responsible for embedding our purpose [to build trust in society and solve important problems] into all that we do with clients and within our own operations and our workforce. You can learn more about this here.

“The ‘School of Life’ got me to Partner. To be a successful business we need to think more broadly about skills and where they come from”

As a People in Deals specialist Partner Sarah works with her clients to ensure that the critical people and cultural aspects of the merger, acquisition or divestment are recognised and addressed upfront. Sarah wants the deal to be the best it can be by enabling people within the merged organisations to be the best they can be. This runs through the deal value creation plan, due diligence and subsequent execution and integration.

Prior to leading the UK Tax People and Organisation practice, Sarah was the PwC UK Chief People Officer for the Deals Line of Service, where she was responsible for setting and delivering the UK People Strategy and leading the people aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic response.

Sarah graduated from the University of Surrey with a BA (Hons) in English and Drama and obtained her MA from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Sarah is CIPD qualified and has been a Partner at PwC since 2015. Sarah is a great advocate for social mobility and champion of our activities that focus on leveling-up society.