Maria Kovkhaeva

• Lead the development and execution of full-cycle recruitment, onboarding, and employee adaptation processes;
• Maintain and optimize internal recruitment and employee transfers;
• Initiate and conduct internal career consultations;
• Drive the automation of HR processes to improve operational efficiency;
• Implementation and leading improvement of a flexible employee benefits cafeteria program;
• Organize and oversee regular employee satisfaction surveys;
• Develop and regularly update of HR policies and procedures;
• Lead the employee monetary bonus system;
• Resolving complex people topics.

Company Overview: the largest Russian retail chain, www.magnit-info.ru

HR Business Partner for IT project team (main role):

• Overseeing of recruitment, internal transfers and adaptation process (1 Recruiter as a direct report);
• Helping Project Director to scale the team in terms of budget and project needs;
• Overseeing personnel expenses budget;
• Resolving complex people topics;
• Annual cycle activities management (target setting, engagement surveys, etc);
• Culture and communications issues and activities management.

Organizational Changes Leader (project role):

• Diagnosis of current organizational structure, business processes and expectations from stakeholders;
• Collection data regarding current functionality and its possible coverage with the new product and software, new functional model development;
• Elaboration of Assessment Centers approach and process.

Company Overview: global market research company, https://www.ipsos.com/en

• Been the first point of contact for line managers and employees for HR topics (up to 250 FTEs);
• Coaching and challenging line managers on HR topics, involving supervisors on all levels into people management issues;
• Supervision recruitment&adaptation, HR administration processes;
• Recruitment and adaptation for the key positions in entrusted BUs;
• Localization of global HR processes in Russia;
• Personnel expenses budgeting and further control over budget;
• Leading annual performance cycle;
• Internal HR communication;
• Organizational structures and headcount optimization, including complex and difficult cases.

Additional responsibilities since 2019:

• Assigned as L&D Champion for Russia&CIS;
• Assigned as employee engagement surveys Champion in Russia;
• Assigned as Project Leader for Ipsos School - ambitious project to attract and train young researchers.

Company Overview: global retail company, metro-cc.ru

• Being the first point of contact for HR operational processes (up to 450 FTEs);
• Ensuring HR information updated on all levels – conducting HR hours and days in business units, providing any consultancy to line managers and employees, providing internal communications on any activities for entrusted directorates;
• Coordination of main HR activities: performance evaluation and target setting, talent review, employee engagement survey;
• Coordination of trainings and development programs delivery to employees, conducting assessment centers;
• Participation in budgeting and FTE planning processes, organizational structure update;
• Supervising recruitment&adaptation, HR administration processes, helping junior HR colleagues in complex cases.

Company Overview: global retail company, metro-cc.ru

• Managing full cycle of recruitment processes (up to 35 vacancies);
• Executing all internal transfers and relevant announcements;
• Providing new joiners with adaptation program;
• Coordination of recruitment interns’ work.

Company Overview: global professional services company, www.pwc.ru/career

• Coordination of the recruitment process: phone prescreen, testing, holding of competency-based interview, further interviews arrangement;
• Search for CVs and profiles using different sources - job web-sites, professional networks, referrals, etc.;
• Collaboration with recruitment agencies, full responsibility for administration of the process;
• Coordination of recruitment interns’ work.

Company Overview: executive search company, www.hrts.ru/

• Executive search for leading IT/Telco vendors (specialists with narrow profile, middle and top management);
• Search for CVs and profiles using different sources - internal base, professional networks, referrals, open sources, etc. excluding job sites.