Andrei Banateanu

People & Culture Director

Romania

About

Human Resources Manager | Head of Rewards | Compensation & Benefits | Talent Development | Incentive Plans | Ex Procter & Gamble & Vodafone | HR Business Partner | People & Culture | HR Strategy

Experience

  • People Director at Bimbo Romania (Vel Pitar)
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    Leading the full HR function (>30 employees), overseeing Talent Acquisition, Compensation & Benefits, Learning & Development, Employee Engagement, and HR Operations. • Develop and coordinate the local People Strategy for all 16 operation sites of Bimbo Romania. • Partnering with local and EMEA senior leadership to drive organizational design, talent management, and succession planning. Successfully redesigned the entire HR Team to Ulrich model. • Leading cultural transformation and employee engagement initiatives to strengthen retention and workforce motivation. Delivered best in class results for Employee Engagement surveys, Performance Management, Potential Assessment and HR Transformation processes.

  • Head of Rewards at Superbet
    Oct 2022 - Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Key Achievements: Job Architecture and Pay Structure, Internal Job Evaluation Tool, Success Factors Implementation, assessing and designing of the benefits portfolio across 15 countries, budgeting tools and Benchmarking methodology, running Annual Compensation Review exercise with extremely positive feedback from stakeholders. - Leadership: Leading a team of 3 Reward experts (Rewards Manager, Benefits Manager and Rewards Project Manager) in delivering the company’s KPIs. - Program Implementation: executed strategies for the successful administration of Long Term Incentive Plans, Management Incentive Plans, and Short Term Incentive Plans. - Engagement: working in collaboration with HR Business Partners and various HR Centers of Excellence to optimally achieve business objectives, including formulating incentive plans, evaluating employee expenses, and proposing reward initiatives for critical personnel and high-potential individuals.

  • Global Rewards Manager at BAT
    Feb 2022 - Oct 2022 · 9 mos

    Key Achievements: Led the global GBS Rewards Team through a new organizational design and processes to meet company objectives with zero data breaches and miscalculations. - Leadership: Leading a team of 12+ Rewards Analysts in ensuring an effective and efficient delivery of GBS compensation & benefits services in line with agreed KPIs and SLAs - Operational: Working together with the Reward Teams in Costa Rica and Malaysia in aligning the GBS Rewards activity and processes across globe. - Management: Monitoring and continuous improvement of resource allocation to deliver Rewards Projects at global level. - Stakeholder Management: working with global stakeholders and Executive Leadership in making sure the activity performed by the GBS Rewards is in line with local and global KPIs. - Innovation: leading the team in continuous improvement activities and Success Factors enhancements and automations.

  • HR Business Partner - Online & Marketing at Superbet
    Jun 2021 - Feb 2022 · 9 mos

    Key Achievements: designed and delivered the People Strategy for the Online department based on company growth plans and feedback from Employee Engagement Survey. - Strategized Customer Operations Incentive Plan: Crafted a structured Customer Operations Incentive Plan, intricately aligned with departmental KPIs to drive performance optimization and goal attainment. - Executive Leadership Coaching: Provided targeted coaching to key personnel, fostering their adeptness in people management, thereby cultivating enhanced leadership capabilities across the organization. Collaborative Organizational Design: Collaborated closely with critical stakeholders to conceive and implement an optimized organizational structure, tailored to accommodate expansion strategies and future growth objectives.

  • Procter & Gamble (4 yrs 4 mos)
    • Global Compensation Transformation Senior Manager
      Nov 2019 - Oct 2020 · 1 yr

      Key Achievements: Successfully led the C&B strategy in terms of integrating new systems, executing change plans, and migrating 100k+ employees to Workday. - Implementing the new C&B Global strategy and systems for salary planning and budget controlling. - Building the project plan for designated streams and run specific C&B actions to deliver the implementation of the new strategy and a flawless end user experience. -Successful delivery of the Global Implementation Plan for changing the existing Compensation System to Workday for +100k employees. across all P&G Legal Entities.

    • Regional Comp. & Ben. Manager and HR Business Partner for Finance (running 2 simultaneous roles)
      Feb 2018 - Oct 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Key Achievements: On top of the C&B Manager role and part of the individual Development Plan for promotion I took over temporarily the role of HR Business Partner for Finance on top of the existing responsibilities.

    • Regional Compensation & Benefits Manager South East Europe
      Jul 2016 - Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Key Achievements: Delivering Compensation & Benefits actions to designated countries and achieved a +70% engagement on C&B elements from organization. I have obtained the highest recognition (CEO Award) for developing a Salary tracking tool and implementing a cost neutral flexible benefits tool for the Turkish organization. - Compensation & Benefits Manager for: Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Israel. Returned after the Development Assignment as HR Business Partner for Sales and Marketing.