We construct a bi-Hamiltonian structure for the holomorphic spin Sutherland hierarchy based on collective spin variables. The construction relies on Poisson reduction of a bi-Hamiltonian structure on the holomorphic cotangent bundle of $$\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb {C})$$
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, which itself arises from the canonical symplectic structure and the Poisson structure of the Heisenberg double of the standard $$\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb {C})$$
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Poisson–Lie group. The previously obtained bi-Hamiltonian structures of the hyperbolic and trigonometric real forms are recovered on real slices of the holomorphic spin Sutherland model.