Feb 2024 – Jul 2024 · 5 mos · Berlin, Germany · Hybrid

• Driving talent acquisition transformation for one of Germany's leading CleanTech companies. Driving tech hiring excellence to support their mission of decarbonising Germany's heating sector.
• Led TA Efficiency OKR and Metaview (AI) implementation feasibility study, conducting end-to-end candidate journey analysis to identify and solve key inefficiencies
• Achieved 20% reduction in time-to-hire while scaling their tech team (6 key hires in 4 months)
• Created engineering career archetypes and comprehensive skills matrix from scratch
• Increased engineering interviewer pool by 10% through ambassadorship and a training programme
• Reduced dependency on LinkedIn or budgetary load through referrals, internal mobility, and sourcing events (reduced cost per hire by nearly 70%).
• Implemented data-driven recruitment strategies, including LinkedIn Insights optimisation
• People Development & Training:
• Designed and delivered comprehensive training programmes in: Project Management, Strategic Advanced Sourcing, Personal Branding, Interviewer Excellence
• Led values-focused team building workshops
• Mentored TA team members in career development

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · Berlin, Germany · Remote

• Talent Crunch is my passion project ❤️ - a community born from the belief that talent professionals deserve their own space to grow, learn, and support each other.
• What started as a dream has grown into Berlin's largest talent community, all through organic growth and word of mouth.
• Every month, we bring together 100-270 talent professionals for knowledge-sharing events, maintaining an exceptional 9.2 NPS. From our signature "Bluehorn" peer-to-peer problem-solving sessions to our Flagship events, every initiative is designed with one goal: making the career path for talent professionals 🚀empowering. Our Events are sponsored.
• I've partnered with major industry players like We are Developers, TechRec and FemTech Conference, and educational institutions including 42 School and BSBI, creating a bridge between talent professionals and the wider tech ecosystem.
• 🎉 Check this out: https://talentcrunch-berlin.my.canva.site/

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Berlin, Germany · Remote

• I am grateful for the people who took time out of their life and / or profession and helped me grow and learn.
• 👋 This is something which both mentors and mentees do outside of their working hours.
• It is not a "side-gig" and nobody gets financial rewards. You may call it "pro-bono".
• https://www.mentoring-club.com/the-mentors/andreea-lungulescu

Jun 2021 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Berlin, Germany · Hybrid

• As the sole EU & Asia Principal Talent Acquisition Partner, I played a pivotal role in driving the company's growth by spearheading the establishment of the European HQ and the new TDC in India. The role was part of Wayfair's Global TA team & at Head of TA Level.
• New TDC launch - led the project team (Berlin based) which developed and launched hiring foundations and recruitment strategies for the India TDC in Bangalore, along with releasing the operational excellence framework.
• I have also collaborated on, designed and delivered pre-onboarding capabilities, strategies, and further approaches that encompass sourcing planning, campaigning (CRM), referral programs, interviewer and TA enablement and onboarding, and a platform for elevating the candidate experience (for the India TDC).
• Full-cycle recruitment, building and executing sourcing and hiring strategies, talent insights, market analysis, offer management, etc.
• (Leadership hiring) as a talent advisor, my mandate is to evaluate, compile, organise, and develop a plan for filling leadership and senior leadership positions for the EU and India TDCs.
• Partnered globally with all of our senior management (to C-level) and build a roadmap of action items suitable for Wayfair's next generation leadership hiring.
• Project Management / Leadership - community building, employer branding, hiring processes, training, new HR Tech tools launch and implementation and change management.
• I developed and led the Principals Community internally and am committed to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
• Results-driven individual, with extensive experience in leading global initiatives, 360 recruiting, optimising, developing and deploying processes, project management, community building, and promoting DEI initiatives and strong cNPS.
• > Global Talent Acquisition
• > Talent Acquisition Project Lead
• > Talent Advisor and Community Leader

Nov 2018 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Supported Zalando's Marketplace (Supply & Demand) E2E recruitment and sourcing strategies, implementation, active hiring, and employer brand.
• At the same time, I led a team of 4 talent partners and collaborated with SVPs, Heads of Product, Product Owners, and Directors to de-bug and redesign our interview process for Product Management roles across Zalando. We built a new process from scratch, alongside training and re-training colleagues in TA and business. Then we rolled it out across 250+ members of our community.
• Acted as Principal Talent Partner and SME for a number of key topics in the organisation, from cNPS, product hiring, domain branding, job webinars, diversity hiring.

Nov 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr

• Similar responsibilities as my other Zalando roles, in a highly volatile area of Zalando

Jun 2017 – Nov 2017 · 5 mos

• Developed the entire recruitment planning, strategy, set-up the foundations for further recruitment success (eg. own career website).
• Sourced and recruited for a newly formed Data Science and ML team, Core roles and Technical roles.
• I had a dual role - 50% in Executive Search and 50% sourcing and hiring across Tech and Commercial for Zalon (part of Zalando).

Nov 2015 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Leadership and Executive Sourcing and Recruiting during Zalando's Tech hyper-growth.
• Roles:
• CTO / VP Engineering, Software Development Managers, Technology / Innovation Leaders, etc.
• Recruiting, Employer Branding, Talent Management, Executive Search, Sourcing, Talent mapping

Jan 2015 – Nov 2015 · 10 mos · Bucharest, Romania

• Building a reputation in 8 countries, Lugera is one of Romania's most powerful HR Consultancies. Over 18 years - presence in Europe - managing Recruitment and Selection, Executive Search, Payroll and Administration or Temporary Staff, to name but a few services.
• Turnover 50 million EUR.
• Main responsibilities:
• Business Development - in-land and abroad
• Strategic marketing approach / recruitment marketing
• Consultative selling
• Networking
• Social Media Recruitment

Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 · 4 yrs · UK

• Employed by Consilium Ltd., Prolinea Resourcing Ltd., and Resource Group Ltd. I have been part of extraordinary recruitment projects.
• Clients such as: Aston Martin, Rolls Royce, BAE, Honeywell, Parker Hannifin, General Electric, Jaguar Land Rover, Delphi, McLaren or ALCOA Europe to name but a few.
• Search and Selection, Headhunt, Database mining, Contingency Search, Retainers
• Sourcing & 360 Recruitment - Internal database, online job boards, blogs or social media and the not-so-usual forums, scholar articles
• Sales - Cold Desk – New Business Development plus Account Management
• Project management – online and offline – online marketing, offline marketing materials, represented the business in Education - University Fairs
• Staff training & mentoring

Mar 2009 – Aug 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bucharest, Romania

• SEO - Google AdWords - Social Media - online retailer
• (RFL: Moved to the UK)