Istanbul, Türkiye
-Leading end to end talent acquisition across Commercial functions (Vodafone Business & Consumer & Customer Operations, Data&AI),partnering closely with business leaders and HRBP's to attract and hire top talent aligned with Vodafone's growth priorities. -Owning full cycle recruitment for critical roles, ensuring strong quality of hire and candidates experience. -Owning and continuously improving candidate engagement initiatives. -Leading Vodafone's flagship early talent programs (Discover & Long Term Internship) and managing high volume (thousand of applicants) pipelines with strong focus on experience and fairness, high quality selection process, delivering innovative recruitment journey (gamified, digital assesment and recruitment etc.) to identify future talents -Driving to building a strong future talent pipeline aligned with Vodafone's long term strategy -Leading and developing a team of 3 people, fostering a high performance and collabrative enviroment -Setting a clear goals,monitor performance and support continuous development of team members -Driving engagement, ownership and accountability across all hiring processes -Leading to Vodafone'a culture by embedding simplicity, growth and customer focus into hiring practices
-Served as a strategic partner to the HR Director, leading the planning and execution of critical HR events and leadership engagements. -Drove the effectiveness of HR Leadership Team (HRLT) governance by structuring agendas, managing content, and ensuring actionable outcomes. -Enabled alignment between HRLT and executive leadership by coordinating C-level meetings, streamlining communication, and ensuring readiness across all stakeholders. -Owned the end-to-end delivery of HR All Hands meetings, enhancing HR internal communication, engagement, and organizational alignment.
-Drove end-to-end talent acquisition and development strategies aligned with business growth priorities, enabling organizational capability building across Commercial (B2C, B2B) and Customer Operations functions. -Led a proactive, insight-driven recruitment approach, ensuring excellence in hiring processes while acting as a trusted advisor to Line Managers on workforce planning and talent decisions. -Managed full-cycle recruitment for all levels, including market mapping, strategic sourcing, and building long-term candidate pipelines and relationships. -Played a key role in local and global talent initiatives, fostering strong collaboration with regional and HQ stakeholders to deliver scalable and impactful resourcing solutions. -Established and maintained strong stakeholder management with business leaders, HRBPs, hiring managers, and external partners, ensuring alignment and high-quality hiring outcomes. -Owned and contributed to youth talent programs (Discover & Long-Term Internship), leading end-to-end recruitment processes and strengthening Vodafone’s early talent pipeline. -Leveraged data and analytics to generate actionable insights, improve hiring effectiveness, and continuously optimize recruitment strategies. -Collaborated closely with Centers of Excellence (Learning & Development, HR Analytics, Internal Communication, Employer Branding) to enhance candidate attraction and experience. -Acted as a strategic consultant to business teams, providing market intelligence and talent insights while proactively sourcing, engaging, and nurturing diverse talent pools.
- Experience in Talent Management, Job Profiling, Job Analysis, Improvement of Recruitment Process. Carried out Top Level Executive Search and Assessment, Leadership Development, Talent Management, Organizational Development Projects for best-run multinational companies mainly in Retail, FMCG, Pharma/Healthcare, Banking/Financial Sectors and Holdings. -Business Development:Identifying and supporting to develop strategic relationships with partners or potential customers. Experience in the development of a strong pipeline of new customers and projects in accounts through direct or indirect customer contact and prospecting. - Responsible for completing Global/Regional Top Level Executive Search & Leadership Assessment Projects and Mid-Level Executive Search for Profil International and Odgers Berndtson. - Experience in Talent Assessments and Behavioral Analysis (PXT and Profile Performance Indicator - PPI) - Organizing and Designing "Assessment Center" and "Development Center" activities in order to define the competency levels of the professional - Working on the launch of the CEO for a Day program which is designed to uncover promising young talents, future leaders and give them an opportunity to walk in the shoes of a senior business leader in Turkey. The 'CEO for a Day' program is designed and run by Odgers Berndtson, one of the world's leading executive search and assessment firms, and has proved a huge success in twelve countries. Responsible for contacting potential talents in very different cities and universities from all backgrounds, maintaining communications with the students and the sponsor companies of the program.
-Carried out the responsibility of research, headhunt, cold call, phone interviews, reference check in Retail, Pharma, Finance, FMCG sectors -Was responsible for preparing the progress report (long list) and organizing the client-candidate meetings -Used sales, business development, marketing techniques and networking in order to attract clients -Builded strong relationships with clients and candidates -Developed a good understanding of client companies, their industry, what they do and their work culture and environment -Headhunted - identified and approached suitable candidates who may already be in work -Used candidate databases to find the right person for the client’s vacancy -Was responsible for receiving and reviewing applications, and creating a shortlist of candidates for national and multinational companies in different sectors -Was responsible for briefing the candidate about the responsibilities, salary and benefits of the job in question
- Worked with Cluster Development Experts in their various missions such as supporting field analysis, arranging interviews with more than 30 companies, evaluating surveys, preparation of trainings and event management. During this period the mission was undertaken in the areas of Agricultural Machinery and Ready Made Garment Industry which provided in depth understanding of industrial structures, business development, value chain analysis, suppliers and role of supporting industries. -Participated in implementation courses 5S process trainings within Lean Manufacturing Project provided important insights on developing production and managing change. -Translated documents and booklets about clustering projects in different countries to provide information -Updated particular data on website -Was responsible in projects interpreting foreigner experts and trainee companies about human resources, international market research, project cycle management, quality management system, institutionalization, customer relations specialists and respond their needs -Led the internship team to organize and assisting the projects to ease the recruitment process in ABIGEM -Provided solutions for companies’ requirements to maximize their client satisfaction with Expert Consultants