Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Recruitment Team Lead to join our team in our Amsterdam office. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience across multiple areas of recruitment, combined with proven leadership capabilities. You will lead a team of five recruiters, each specializing in Trading, Technology, or Business Support roles. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities.
What you will do
- Lead, mentor, and support a team of 5 recruiters to meet hiring objectives
- Drive the growth and continuous development of team members through coaching, feedback, and support
- Create the annual recruitment strategy together with the Heads of Department
- Manage and execute end-to-end recruitment processes for senior-level roles as required
- Partner with business leaders and hiring managers to understand hiring needs and develop sourcing strategies
- Monitor key recruitment metrics (e.g., time-to-fill, quality of hire) and oversee reporting on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis
- Analyze recruitment data and optimize strategies where needed
- Build and maintain a strong pipeline of candidates through proactive sourcing, networking, and employer branding initiatives
- Ensure team provides a high-quality candidate experience throughout the hiring journey
- Work closely with HR Business Partners to support smooth onboarding and help ensure new hires are set up for long-term success and retention
- Manage recruitment system (Greenhouse) and tools and ensure data integrity and compliance
- Contribute to employer branding efforts, including career events, job fairs, and online presence
- Stay up to date with industry trends, talent market insights, and innovative hiring practices
What you need to succeed:
- 5 years’ experience as a Leading Recruiter or Team Lead recruitment in a complex, high performing organization
- Experience leading or mentoring a team while having a hands on attitude
- At least 3 years of international sourcing experience
- A good understanding of the different European recruitment markets
- Excellent organizational skills
- Ability to provide structured, data driven, output and results
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Assertive, pragmatic, resilient with a can-do attitude
- Demonstratable ability to work together and build up relationships & trust with key stakeholders in the execution of recruiting initiatives
- Strong personality with the ability to work in a demanding and fast-paced environment
Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.
What We Do
Since 2004, Flow Traders has been a principal trading firm and one of the world’s largest liquidity providers, specialised in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Our headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Milan and Cluj accommodate more than 500 employees. Throughout the years, Flow Traders has received the industry’s recognition, winning numerous awards and has been listed as a company since 2015.
Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Our demanding, high-paced environment continuously puts us to the test.
Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility.
At Flow Traders, we focus on professional and personal development; we encourage our people to be the best at anything they do by offering the right training. On top of that, we have our private gym where our health coaches provide our people with the right personal sports programs. We invest in our hard working people, because they hold the key to our success.
