Assoc CIPD — Chisinau, Moldova (Open to relocation)
Oleg Sirbu
HR Director · People Operations
HR professional with experience across telecoms, oil and gas, automotive, IT and management consulting in three countries. Twelve years in leadership roles and eight in dedicated compensation and benefits. Runs the function end to end — operating model and policy, organisational design, hiring, performance, reward, HR operations and analytics. Associate CIPD.
Open to HR Director and Head of Total Rewards roles, full-time or project-based — in Moldova, remote, or with relocation.
20+
Years in HR
12
Years in leadership roles
8
Years in reward roles
3
Countries — Moldova, Kazakhstan, Russia
Core capability
Industries
Regions
- Moldova: Zeroqode · Indrivo · BASS Systems · Moldtelecom · Moldcell
- Kazakhstan: PricewaterhouseCoopers · Beeline Kazakhstan
- Russia: Sollers · Urals Energy
- Client projects: Mongolia — largest bank in the country, delivered from PwC
Experience
Apr 2020 – present
HR Director
- Own the people function end to end: policy, hiring, onboarding, performance, reward and internal communication.
- Built the company-wide KPI and bonus system across engineering, product, design and support, and run the recognition programme alongside it.
- Run the annual compensation review on PwC salary survey data: salary ranges and the pay budget.
- Rebuilt recruiting on AI agents — CV intake, screening, analysis and part of candidate correspondence — cutting at least 60% of the time spent on hiring and running the function with no dedicated recruiter.
- Designed the remote-first operating model: async practices, communication tooling, internal knowledge base.
- Designed and run the annual employee engagement survey: eNPS scoring, findings agreed with leadership, communicated company-wide and turned into an action plan.
- Lead employer branding and the careers presence; run onboarding and coordinate the annual company retreat.
Sep 2019 – Mar 2020
HR Director
- Owned compensation and benefits: market benchmarking, salary and bonus proposals to the leadership team, and the salary and bonus budget.
- Ran the full employee lifecycle: recruitment, onboarding, terminations, absence management and HR administration.
- Owned people analytics and monthly HR operations — timesheets, leave management and bonus payments.
Sep 2017 – Jun 2019
Senior Associate, People & Organisation
- Diagnosed the full HR system of Mongolia's largest bank, 6,000 employees; on the strength of it the client commissioned a follow-on engagement — job evaluation and grading across the entire bank, from branch roles to executive level.
- Job evaluation and grading (PwC Strata) for an international oil & gas client — 1,000 FTE, 360+ positions in scope.
- Designed job classification and band-based short-term incentive schemes for a real-estate development client.
- Delivered the regional salary survey from the Almaty hub to Moldova and CIS markets: methodology briefings for participating clients, data analysis and validation, results presentation.
- Built and delivered Total Rewards training and open seminars; speaker, First Online HR Conference Kazakhstan (2019).
- Member of the Executive Board, Eurobak HR Committee (2018–2019).
May 2016 – Aug 2017
HR Business Partner
- Built the HR function from nothing in 15 months: staffing strategy, organisational design, reward management and internal communications.
- Designed the role architecture: job description pool, division regulations, new structure and naming convention.
- Standardised HR policy end to end: compensation, selection, absenteeism, probation period and the HR board.
- Ran technical, support and management hiring; introduced recruitment measurement indicators.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Compensation & Benefits Senior Expert
- Rebuilt company-wide salary ranges from survey analysis and Mercer job evaluation of 50 E1–E11 and M–M5 roles; approved by executive management and rolled out.
- Redesigned the annual bonus plan and the company performance bonus concept.
- Adjusted the sales commission system on B2B/B2C performance analysis and reported gaps at CXO level.
- Coordinated the Global Mobility Programme: expatriate packages, relocation, tax adjustments, cross-charges and vendors.
- Owned the salary and wage-bill budget and presented it to executive management.
- Trained and mentored new team members on payroll, job evaluation and medical insurance.
Jan 2010 – Dec 2013
Head of Compensation & Benefits
- Led, coached and appraised a Compensation & Benefits team of six; developed an internal successor who took over the role on my departure.
- Built the total rewards strategy and the performance system behind it: appraisal, annual bonus, merit increase and promotion policy.
- Launched KPI and sales incentive programmes across Sales B2B/B2C, Customer Care, Marketing and Operations.
- Introduced a cafeteria benefits system: medical insurance, wellness, children's summer camp, vacation bonus.
- Added individual sales result as a new company bonus driver; introduced kaizen and synergy incentives.
- Negotiated the collective labour agreement with trade unions and presented it to the whole workforce — agreed and signed without dispute.
- Designed the annual HR report around financial metrics: employee ROI, development ROI and HR benchmarks.
2004 – 2009
Earlier career
2008 – 2009
C&B Manager
HR financial metrics across branches — cost per hire, employee ROI, turnover; headcount and salary consolidation; restructuring support.
2006 – 2008
HR Manager
Appraisal system and annual bonus policy; HR due diligence on an acquisition; expatriate support end to end.
2004 – 2006
HR Specialist
First HRIS implemented from scratch; personnel administration and HR budgeting; Watson Wyatt GGS grading project.
Education & credentials
2012 – 2014
Postgraduate Diploma, Human Resource Management
Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
CIPD-accredited postgraduate programme at Advanced level — equivalent to the current CIPD Level 7; capstone applied Management Research Report.
since 2014
Associate Member, CIPD — Assoc CIPD
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, United Kingdom
The UK professional body for HR and people development.
1998 – 2002
Diploma with Distinction in Law
Trade Co-operative University of Moldova
Legal grounding for labour law, collective agreements and HR policy.
Languages
Russian — native · Romanian — fluent · English — advanced
Also
Microsoft Certified Learning Consultant · Microsoft Certified Trainer
Publications
Forbes Kazakhstan, 2019 — PwC PayWell commentary, co-authored: The billions Kazakh companies lost to staff turnover · Pay rises and training slowed in Kazakhstan