Ada Arapi

Senior Talent Acquisition Lead | HR Partner

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

About

With 15+ years of experience across Talent Acquisition, HR business partnering, and People Development in international environments, I focus on what truly matters: helping organizations hire and grow people who fit, stay, and contribute over time. I believe hiring is more than matching skills to a job. It’s about listening and understanding people and my goal is to create alignment not just on skills, but also on mindset, values and potential. Known for being structured, communicative and adaptable, I’m often brought in when clarity is needed—whether for a hard-to-fill role, an evolving team, or a fast-changing business need. Multilingual and culturally aware, I work with care, curiosity, and a practical mindset. I don’t believe in overcomplicating things—but I do believe in doing them well. 🎯Areas of Focus and Core Expertize: ✔ Operational Talent Acquisition, Strategy and Leadership ✔ Strong track record working with C-level and senior leadership ✔ Stakeholder Engagement & Management ✔ HR Business Partnering in Matrix Organizations ✔ Learning & Development Programs ✔ Internal Mobility, Succession Planning, Talent Development ✔ Employer Branding, Retention, Employee and Candidate Experience ✔ Campus recruitment, Internship Programs & early career programs ✔ International & multilingual recruitment

Experience

  • Senior Talent Coordinator & Internship Program Lead at AXA
    Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    Key Rensposibilities & Impact: • Leading of the end-to-end internship lifecycle (A–Z), ensuring strong prioritization, structure, and delivery. • Acting as Internship Lead, driving consistency, efficiency, and employer brand impact across early-career initiatives. • Designing and optimizing internship recruitment processes, improving timelines and cross-functional alignment. • Coaching and supervision of HR interns, combining performance delivery with development and engagement. • Partnering transversally with the Business and Hiring Managers and HR Partners to align internship needs with business priorities. • Delivering of data-driven insights through KPIs and dashboards (Power BI). • Close collaboration with Talent Acquisition Manager through analytical reporting, inisights and operational coordination. • Build and managing of partnerships with schools, platforms, and recruitment partners to maximize visibility and reach. • Hands-on contribution in recruitment activities and job fairs, improving tools, processes and candidate experience.

  • Senior Talent Acquisition Lead / HR Advisor at Fednot
    Oct 2021 - Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Key achievements: • Recruited +118 talents (internal and external) throughout different departments (HR, Finance, Infosec, IT, PM, Program Managers, Customer Care, Legal, Marketing) with a 96% success rate; • Managed end-to-end recruitment for high-impact roles (incl. at C-level); • Conducted negotiations + €225,000 with external recruitment agencies; • Initiated 7 internship programs throughout different divisions (HR, IT, Customer Marketing, Care, Infosec); • Trained and coached 5 different HR colleagues (internal and external); • Recruitment Lead of MSP Platform (Prounity). Key responsibilities: • Lead and managed end-to-end (full cycle) recruitment processes; including sourcing, (in depth) interviewing and extending offers; • Negotiated offers with recruitment agencies; • Driving proactive sourcing initiatives to attract candidates; • Mentoring/coaching and providing guidance to new HR members of the Talent Acquisition team; • Coordinated the timely onboarding of new hires and of the offboarding of the employees and freelancers; • Built pipelines & network of key talents, in highly demanded profiles and niche; • Lead projects such as internal mobility, employer branding, strategic workforce planning, improvement of HR processes, internships and job fairs.

  • Talent Acquisition Trainer @ Talent Acquisition Academy at Talent Acquisition Academy
    Oct 2021 - Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Career Break at -
    Jan 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

    (personal development and family reasons)

  • HR Business Partner and L&D Lead at Capgemini Belgium
    Apr 2017 - Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Main achievements : • Lead in ‘Employee Stock Ownership Plan’ launch 2017 for Sogeti BE and over- achievement of goal with + 14% points (compared to previous year) and shared best practices with Sogeti Lux • Project Lead - Talent Management transformation program (incl. counsellorship) and in L&D transformation program • Lead of L&D at Sogeti Belgium • Managing an offshore (India) HR colleague • Set-up of an internship program with Solvay business school & ESI • Set-up of an employer branding action plan Main responsibilities : • HR Business Partner for the cluster 'Digital' • Leading a virtual learning & development team of 2 people offshore • Learning & Development Lead for Sogeti Belgium • Talent Management Lead for Sogeti Belgium & Luxembourg • HR spoc for internships (ad hoc) • In charge of several HR projects (with direct report to the CEO for some)