Recruiting & HR Business Partner

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Anthos Fund & Asset Management is seeking a Recruiting & HR Business Partner to lead recruitment and deliver HR services onsite in Amsterdam. The role covers talent acquisition, employee relations, HR processes, and performance development to build a strong organisation. You will partner with leaders, craft job descriptions, strengthen employer branding, manage the performance cycle, coach managers, and ensure compliant HR systems and reporting. The ideal candidate has a bachelor’s degree, solid recruiting experience, broad HR generalist skills, and the confidence to advise senior leaders while owning initiatives. Tips: tailor your resume to highlight direct sourcing and process improvements, align with sustainability values, and discuss pre-employment screening and equality commitments.

Our organisation

Anthos Fund & Asset Management (Anthos) is a values-based asset manager that stewards capital for professional investors who want to create bigger impact together. We strive to do this by responsibly managing capital in line with the values of sustainability, human dignity, and good corporate citizenship, underpinned by robust responsible and impact investment principles.  

Anthos was founded nearly 100 years ago to manage the assets of the Brenninkmeijer family, their businesses and philanthropies. We welcome like-minded investors to join us. Clients benefit from tailored expert management across equities, fixed income, real estate, private equity, alternative investments and on an overall portfolio level.

Anthos Fund & Asset Management is part of COFRA Holding AG. Family-owned for six generations.

COFRA today comprises a diversified group of investment platforms and operating businesses in asset management, private equity, real estate, retail, clean energy and sustainable food. All striving to be a force for good in society and the environment.

Purpose of the role

The Recruiting & HR Business Partner plays a key role in building a high-performing, well-supported organisation by delivering strong day-to-day execution. The role exists to ensure that managers and employees experience HR as professional, consistent and value-adding — from hiring the right people, to managing performance and development, to addressing employee questions and issues early and constructively.

Key Responsibilities     

Talent Acquisition

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for all roles, including assessments, interviews and offer management.
• Design, develop, and continuously improve recruitment processes and ways of working.
• Conduct targeted LinkedIn sourcing, talent mapping and proactive outreach.
• Partner with leaders to define job descriptions, selection criteria and competency requirements.
• Strengthen employer branding through targeted messaging, hiring manager coaching and market presence.

Employee relations & HR processes

• Act as first point of contact for employee relations questions and coordinated individual cases, providing advice and guidance on people matters to employees and managers.
• Coordinate HR-related operational activities such as onboarding set-ups, training registrations, certification tracking and internal communications around joiners.
• Support continuous improvement and optimisation of HR systems and workflows, in close collaboration with COFRA Services and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure HR systems are used correctly and consistently across the organisation.
• Perform regular data checks and support HR reporting and dashboards.

Performance & Development

• Manage the annual performance management cycle, including planning, communication and training for managers and employees.
• Coach leaders on effective performance management, feedback, and high-quality goal setting.
• Support and facilitate the creation of development plans and performance improvement plans.
• Monitor and track mandatory education and certification requirements.

Experience and skills

• At least a Bachelor’s degree in HR, Psychology, Business or a related field, or similar level obtained by experience.
• Strong background in direct sourcing, ideally within financial services or other specialist domains.
• In-house / corporate recruiting expertise, including experience with recruitment process improvement.
• Broad HR generalist capability across performance, talent, learning and employee relations.
• Experience building or improving HR processes, frameworks and documentation from scratch.
• Confident and resilient personality, able to challenge and advise senior leaders.
• High degree of ownership, comfortable driving initiatives independently while staying close to execution.

Additional information

• A pre-employment screening is a final step of the hiring procedure.
• We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.