Co-lead Global Partner HR

In the Netherlands - Amsterdam

Our company’s success has its basis in our constantly growing partnership. To cope with rising demands around partner development, we are looking for a Global Senior HR Business Partner to co-lead our Global Partner HR team.

This is a role for a detail-oriented, highly organized HR professional who thrives in an international and demanding environment with 30+ countries and excels at providing high-touch HR support to senior stakeholders.

• Become part of a unique entrepreneurial team. Think independently, use your initiative, and take some risks. Entrepreneurship is a powerful force that drives the growth not only of our firm but our clients and people.
• Unlock the power of opportunity. Advance your career in a thriving company that creates positive impact. We invest in your professional development every step of the way.
• Enjoy balance and flexible working. Be empowered to do your best work – whether it’s remotely or in the office. We offer flexible and hybrid working, remote teaming, sabbaticals, and paid time off.
• Prioritize your health and wellbeing. No matter where you live, we offer a competitive suite of health benefits to help keep you and your loved ones safe.
• Work in a values-driven culture. At Simon-Kucher, our vision is to become the world's leading growth specialist. Our values guide the way we do business and communicate our distinctiveness. They sum up what we stand for, influence our culture, and drive how and why we do things.

• Partner Hiring Strategy: In close collaboration with company leadership, develop and drive the global strategy for Partner hiring, ensuring a consistent, high-quality, and forward-looking approach.
• End-to-End Partner Hiring Management: Lead and streamline the full Partner recruitment cycle, including agency and headhunter management, process coordination, and reporting to company leadership.
• Stakeholder Management: Involve and align with stakeholders across functions and geographies related to all Partner HR processes and matters, including Partners, Division Leaders, CEOs, local HR, Legal, Finance, and the Board.
• Onboarding: Manage and monitor the onboarding process of new Partners, ensuring their smooth integration into the partnership while maintaining proper documentation.
• Separations & Offboarding: Manage Partner separations, ensuring compliance with policies and a structured offboarding process.
• Compensation & Benefits: Manage Partner salaries, including bonus calculations and communication.
• Shareholder Processes: Continuously improve and provide operational support for Partner election, confirmation, and exit processes.
• Reporting: Further develop Partner HR dashboard and reports for the business leaders and the Board.
• Team & Process Development: Co-lead and further develop the global Partner HR team and develop/optimize Partner HR processes across the organization.

• Minimum of five years of HRBP or HR operations, especially leadership Talent Acquisition, and development in an international business environment.
• Experience in leading professional service firms (consulting, executive search, law, private equity, or similar) and in a global matrix organization.
• Experience in HR operations with a particular focus on Talent Acquisition strategy and end-to-end recruiting and onboarding for Partner and senior leadership roles.
• Strong knowledge of HR systems (SAP SuccessFactors or similar) and digital collaboration tools (e.g., MS 365); basic AI and advanced data analysis skills for data management are crucial.
• Ability to work confidently with senior executives, delivering high-touch, professional HR support.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and credibility with senior stakeholders.
• Possess leadership skills that enable you to drive a high-performing HR team by setting clear strategic direction, ensuring role clarity, and fostering a culture of accountability, excellence, and collaboration.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with a service-oriented mindset: proactive, responsive, and solutions-driven.
• Adaptable and agile, comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving, and hybrid/virtual environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills, capable of handling complex requests independently.
• Fluent in English and another European language.

If you’re interested and you’d like to support our team with your expertise, experience, and commitment, we are looking forward to receiving your application.

Simon-Kucher
is a global consultancy with more than 2,000 employees in 30+ countries. Our sole focus is on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for our clients. We achieve this by optimizing every lever of their commercial strategy – product, price, innovation, marketing, and sales – based on deep insights into what customers want and value. With 40 years of experience in monetization topics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world's leading pricing and growth specialist. Simon-kucher.com

We believe in building a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating an environment in which our people feel valued, are able to be themselves and feel their contribution matters. If we get that right, remarkable things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valued, and create better outcomes for everyone – our people, our clients and, of course, our business.

Your personal contact:
Anne-Fleur Lefel
Recruitment.amsterdam@simon-kucher.com