MADALINA BIANCA NAUM

Lead Eng Technical Recruiter covering Back-end (Product&Infra) Senior Software Engineers. 360 recruitment (sourcing to offer) across EMEA.
Consistently met and overachieved hiring and diversity targets in terms of offers extended as most of my candidates were self-sourced.
Strong focus on interview experience, preparing and coaching candidates to succeed in Meta's rigorous interview process, achieving some of the highest candidate satisfaction metrics (98%) in my group alongside the highest closing rate in EMEA (top 1% globally).
Experienced in collaborating across multiple pillars and pipelines to improve regional processes.
I’ve led project teams of up to 50 people (Eng + Recruiting) and I had the opportunity to guide, coach and mentor others.

Notable contributions:

• Lead and improved the candidate review process at EMEA level (improved planning and efficiency by 30%)
• Lead a candidate facing program with impact across all seniority levels. The focus was on improving final interview to offer conversion rates. (improved offer extend conversion rates by 20%)
• Lead the revamping of the Interviewer Calibration program with impact on multiple Engineering Pipelines across all seniority levels. (reduced time to review a feedback from 1 month to 5 days)
• Built and delivered trainings and calibration programs for the Recruiting group:
  - In partnership with the Senior Eng Directors in London we delivered a program to enable recruiters navigate through the candidate review process;
  - Partnered with L&D on multiple training programs meant to improve top of the funnel conversion rates and candidate experience metrics
  - Lead and delivered a program focused on improving offer closing strategies.
• HR4HR interviews, onboarding, coaching and mentorship, training facilitator at org level (300+ members).

Recruitment Lead supporting the Specialist Overlay Architecture group and Tier 1 Partner Architecture group at an EMEA level. Strong focus on vertical alignment and technology specialization.

• Go to market strategy;
• Headcount planning;
• Prioritization and delegation of work;
• Stakeholder management;
• Progress to goal reporting;
• Implementation of process improvement initiatives focusing on time to hire (reduced time to hire by 40%), conversion rates (improved conversion rates by 50%), offer acceptance rate (improved by 30%), diversity and headcount distribution;
• Leading recruiters and sourcers on large international projects.

Lead Recruiter for Microsoft Consulting Services covering Data&AI Solutions Portfolio at an European Level.

• Setup the recruitment strategy and end to end recruitment process across EMEA for Technical Architects, Technical Consultants, Data Scientist, PjM’s and Premier Field engineers;
• Set-up an unbiased and data driven recruitment process to enable us to achieve our diversity metrics; (increase diverse representation in our group by 20%)
• Scaled the leadership layer of my group by hiring Senior Managers and Pillar Leaders (by 30%);
• Full cycle recruitment managing around 50 open roles at any given time;
• Stakeholder management - working directly with the Services Leader in EMEA and their Chief of Staff on the recruitment strategy, process improvement, headcount planning, attrition and diversity;
• Lead, coached and mentored both recruiters and sourcers in a geographically distributed environment.

Supporting Oracle Technology in Sales, Consulting and Customer Experience in ECEMEA.

• Partnering with business stakeholders to implement result driven recruitment strategies;
• Coaching and training new team members;
• Planning and execution of go to market strategies;
• Prioritization and delegation of work towards sourcers and recruiters;
• Managing high volumes across EMEA working with directly with Key Stakeholders.

Fix term contract engagement

Senior Recruitment Consultant focusing on Sales and Customer Support LOB's. Partnering effectively with other teams to reduce cost of hire and also improve the customer satisfaction level

Supporting Sales, Consulting and Development Lines of Business. Taking ownership on the entire recruitment process from intake to contract signing.

• Growing strong relationship with the business and the candidate network;
• Managing complex recruitment processes at an EMEA level;
• Worked on multiple complex visa processes in MENA;
• Versatile in Market mapping initiatives (market research, competitors mapping, geographical mapping) Headhunting candidates through cold calling;
• Candidate Network Building in the area of Apps, Technology (Fusion Middleware, DBA) and HW.