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Stefan Turtaru

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Vice President, Talent Acquisition at Smart Working
📍 London, England, United Kingdom

Stefan is a results-driven talent acquisition leader with over a decade of experience designing high-impact global recruitment strategies across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. He holds a Bachelors degree from the Academia de Studii Economice din București. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented, creative, and an invaluable leader with exceptional skills.

He is passionate about partnering with businesses to transform their talent acquisition operations for greater efficiency and scale. A strong advocate for modern work structures, he is focused on creating opportunities for talent to thrive in remote-first, global roles, a topic he follows and shares content about.

He played a key leadership role in expanding BairesDev’s capacity from approximately 1, 500 to over 4, 000 employees.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Vice President, Talent Acquisition
Job Level
Senior
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
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Global Talent Strategy
His career has focused on designing and leading recruitment strategies across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC for companies like BASF, BairesDev, and Delivery Hero.
TA Transformation
He specializes in partnering with businesses to transform their talent acquisition operations for efficiency and scale, as demonstrated in his consulting work with BASF.
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Career

Work history

6-2025
Vice President, Talent Acquisition
Smart Working
2-2023 - 5-2024
Global Talent Acquisition Consultant: BASF's Talent Hub Optimisation
BASF
1-2021 - 10-2023
Global Talent Acquisition Operations Manager (North America & LATAM)
BairesDev
12-2019 - 1-2021
Global Talent Acquisition Partner (EMEA & SEA)
Delivery Hero
9-2015 - 12-2019
Global Talent Acquisition Strategist & Senior Executive Recruiter
ESW Capital
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Education
2007 - 2013
Bachelor's degree
Academia de Studii Economice din București
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