ASSOC CIPD — CHISINAU, MOLDOVA (OPEN TO RELOCATION)
Oleg Sirbu
HR Director · People Operations
HR professional with 20+ years in HR across telecoms, oil and gas, automotive, IT and management consulting in three countries, twelve of them in leadership roles. Runs the function end to end — operating model and policy, organisational design, hiring, performance, reward, HR operations and analytics — in organisations from small product teams to a national telecom operator of 6,000. Eight of those years were spent in dedicated compensation and benefits roles. Associate CIPD.
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
- Mongolia: largest bank in the country — project delivered from PwC
EXPERIENCE
Apr 2020 – present
HR Director
Zeroqode · Chisinau, Moldova · custom software development · ~60 employees · remote-first
- 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: sourcing, screening and candidate correspondence run through agent workflows.
- 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
Indrivo · Chisinau, Moldova · custom software development · ~50 employees
- 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
PricewaterhouseCoopers · Almaty, Kazakhstan · reward and HR consulting
- Diagnosed the full HR system of Mongolia's largest bank, 6,000 employees, and wrote the recommendations from it.
- Delivered the follow-on engagement for the same client: job evaluation and grading across the whole 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
BASS Systems · Chisinau, Moldova · custom software development · ~50 employees · HR function built from scratch
- Built the HR function from nothing: 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
Beeline Kazakhstan · Astana, Kazakhstan · telecoms
- Rebuilt company-wide salary ranges from survey analysis; Mercer job evaluation for 50 E1–E11 and M–M5 roles.
- 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
Moldtelecom · Chisinau, Moldova · telecoms · 6,000 employees · team of six
- Led, coached and appraised a Compensation & Benefits team of six; identified and developed an internal successor.
- 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.
- Designed the annual HR report around financial metrics: employee ROI, development ROI and HR benchmarks.
2004 – 2009
Earlier career
2008 – 2009
C&B Manager
Sollers · Moscow, Russia · automotive
HR financial metrics across branches — cost per hire, employee ROI, turnover; headcount and salary consolidation; restructuring support.
2006 – 2008
HR Manager
Urals Energy · Moscow, Russia · oil & gas
Appraisal system and annual bonus policy; HR due diligence on an acquisition; expatriate support end to end.
2004 – 2006
HR Specialist
Moldcell · Chisinau, Moldova · telecoms
First HRIS implemented from scratch; personnel administration and HR budgeting; Watson Wyatt GGS grading project.
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
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.
Associate Member, CIPD — Assoc CIPD
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, United Kingdom
The UK professional body for HR and people development.
LANGUAGES
Russian — native · Romanian — fluent · English — advanced
ALSO
Microsoft Certified Learning Consultant · Certified Trainer