Inna Uvarova

Senior Strategic HR Leader | Talent Acquisition

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

Talent Acquisition

Languages

EnglishFrenchSpanishUkrainian

About me

Intro

Full-spectrum HR Director with 20 years of international experience covering the complete people agenda: talent acquisition, organisational design, L&D, succession planning, compensation & benchmarking, EVP and employer branding, M&A HR integration, change management, HRIS implementation and HR analytics. Proven track record building HR functions from scratch, leading organisational transformation and aligning people strategy with business growth across France, Benelux and international markets

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Work experience

Principal

ExecHQ® - Bringing Expertise to the Table

Sep 2024 - Present

2 years 2 months

Emeabiam, Imo, Nigeria

Reply

Aug 2021 - Mar 2024

2 years 8 months

69340 Francheville, France

Head of Recruitment France Benelux

Jan 2022 - Mar 2024

2 years 3 months

69340 Francheville, France

I manage a team of recruiters in France & Benelux countries, helping various group's business units to meet their needs in graduate and senior profiles hiring in a challenging fast-growing environment by emphasising on employer branding and relationships with universities. IT and Finance profiles. Support the key stakeholders in development recruitment strategy.

Recruitment Consultant

Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

5 months

Paris, France

Skills: Applicant Tracking Systems · Project Management · Technical Recruiting · Hiring · Employer Branding

Managing Partner

InVision360

Jan 2012 - Oct 2021

9 years 10 months

Paris, France

Recruitment and HR consulting services to various SME and corporate clients. The industries included insurance, oil&gas, biotech, banking, construction, real estate, tech. The focus is on making Human Capital an efficient tool that positively impacts a company growth via aligning the whole HR system, its policies and operations, with the company's main goal and strategy and developing metrics to monitor it. The scope of the services includes development of recruitment and talent management programs and policies, workforce planning, organizational design, development of a learning culture in a company to ensure continued success. As a response to the “new reality of work” during 2020 I developed several measures to address this shift and support a flawless continuity of operations. The most significant included enhanced attention to employee experience, digitalization, remote team shaping and management.

Senior HR Consultant

TZ Partners

Dec 2007 - Dec 2011

4 years 1 month

Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000

Recruitment & HR Consulting to a wide range of clients across multiple sectors in Ukraine and European Union countries. Accompanied clients in building employee-oriented culture, emphasizing candidate and employee experience, continuous improvement, teamwork, and high-performance. Created strategic plans, comprising recruitment and L&D.

HR Senior Manager and Quality Insurance Lead for Sandora LLC; HR Acquisition Lead for Sandora LLC

PepsiCo

Sep 2001 - Dec 2007

6 years 4 months

Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000

Managed and secured the ISO 9001/10018 certification process for People Involvement and Competence across Sandora Divisions (more than 2000 employees). Built the ISO compliant documentation for procedures and methods to assess people in organizational settings. Managed subsidiaries HR activities/standards and acted as an escalation point for subsidiary HR Managers. Led a team in charge of HR integration strategy for PepsiCo during Sandora company acquisition to align People processes across two companies. Managed systems integration, secured on-time go-live. Developed a portfolio of new People processes from recruiting, onboarding to career development and retention policies, reducing expected post-merger attrition rate from 30% to 10%.


Education

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Executive MBA

2018 - 2020

2 years 1 month

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Masters of Arts

1996 - 2001

5 years 1 month

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