Test I Senior Partnership Manager

Skills & Requirements

Your profile

We are looking for a Senior Partnership Manager who combines strategic insight, strong stakeholder management, and excellent coordination skills to strengthen the partnership between PFZW and PGGM Investment Management.

Stakeholder management & relationship building

• Proven experience managing senior stakeholders, including board-level interactions, in a complex environment.
• Ability to build trust-based relationships and navigate diverse interests across internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills, enabling you to connect perspectives, facilitate dialogue, and ensure clear follow-up.

Strategic thinking & governance awareness

• Strong understanding of governance structures, decision-making processes, and formal consultation frameworks within financial institutions or pension funds.
• Ability to think strategically, understand the bigger picture, and translate developments into concrete actions.

Coordination & execution power

• Excellent organizational and coordination skills, with the ability to structure complex processes and maintain oversight across multiple priorities.
• Experience acting as a central coordinator, ensuring alignment, quality, and timely delivery.
• Strong focus on execution: you ensure that agreements are translated into tangible outcomes.

Content expertise & sector knowledge

• Strong knowledge of, and affinity with, asset management and pension funds, including long-term investment strategies and policy frameworks.
• Good understanding of the regulatory environment for asset managers.
• Up-to-date knowledge of developments in the Dutch pension system, including WTP.

Mindset & ownership

• Proactive and solution-oriented, with the ability to identify bottlenecks and drive improvements across governance, product delivery, and reporting processes.
• High level of ownership, professionalism, and accountability.

Education & language

• Academic level of thinking and working, preferably with a Master’s degree in Economics, Finance, or a related field.
• 7–10 years of relevant experience, preferably within pension funds, asset managers, or financial institutions.
• Fluent in Dutch and English, both spoken and written. (Hard requirement)

We offer

At PGGM we are proud of our core values: trust, teamwork and innovation. These values arose from the best stories of our colleagues, moments when they were at their best. We believe those moments occur when you can be 100% yourself. At PGGM, we value the unique combination of your personal and professional attributes. Because what really counts at PGGM are people, one hundred percent! At PGGM, you can count on:

• A pleasant workplace at our office in Zeist and, from the middle of 2028, in the center of Utrecht.
• A gross monthly salary in scale 18 between €7.550,- and €10.785,- based on 36 hours, depending on your knowledge and experience.
• A thirteenth month.
• A good pension scheme as a member of the PFZW pension fund (71% paid by PGGM, 29% by the employee).
• An annual Fit for the Future budget of €300 net, which you can use to improve your mental, physical, or financial fitness.
• A generous training budget for internal and external training courses or education.
• More than 26 vacation days (employees can choose to swap up to two national Christian holidays for a day that is important to them).
• Flexibility in working hours and working from home options.
• A net internet allowance of €45 per month (€540 per year).
• Group discount on supplementary health insurance (21% in 2024) and dental insurance (15% in 2024).
• A work-from-home arrangement with a maximum allowance of €900 to set up a health and safety-compliant home office.

You can find more information about our terms of employment and salary scales in our collective labor agreement: read more

Meer weten?

Senior Partnership manager: your new role at PGGM?
Would you like to join us as a senior partnership manager and share the responsibility of ensuring a good pension for more than 5.6 million pension participants? Then apply for this vacancy.
Do you have any questions? Please contact recruiter ... via ...@pggm.nl.
More information about the application process can be found on our website: Our application procedure | PGGM.

PGGM and Hybrid Working

At PGGM, we have created a hybrid working environment that enables us to combine flexibility with collaboration. Our employees have the opportunity to work both in the office and remotely, depending on their personal preferences and the nature of their work. By offering hybrid working, we aim to give our employees the freedom to shape their own working style, while at the same time retaining the benefits of a shared workplace.

Application Process

Upon receiving your application, we will follow a number of steps to see if we are a good match for each other. During the recruitment and selection process for new employees, PGGM collects and processes personal data, which may also include reviewing social media profiles. PGGM believes it is highly important that this is done carefully, confidentially, transparently, and in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and related laws and regulations. Please read this document to understand what happens to your personal data.

Note to Agencies and Intermediaries
We are aware that many external parties would like to assist in our search or offer their services for this vacancy; however, at PGGM, we recruit our new colleagues directly. Acquisition regarding recruitment and selection assignments or unsolicited CV submissions are therefore not appreciated and will not be processed. Should we require external support, we will contact you directly.

We always communicate via official PGGM email addresses (@pggm.nl). Have you been approached by a third party and/or do you doubt whether the contact is genuinely on behalf of PGGM? Please feel free to verify if there is indeed a legitimate partnership with third parties by sending us an email or giving us a call.