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Fourteen projects, told in full
How companies opened, scaled and staffed their centers and teams in Romania with us. Client names withheld, the numbers real, and for every project, what happened years later.
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- Consumer & Retail
How a US Fortune 500 built its Romanian tech center from zero, mid-pandemic
Founding leadership still in place after 5 years. Ranked #1 employer in Romania two years after launch. Still a client.
Banking & Financial Services · Executive Search5 leaders in 4 monthsHow a top-tier bank rebuilt its entire IT leadership in four months, without the market noticing
All five still in role 4–5 years later. Early cloud migration and an in-house AI department followed.
Banking & Financial Services · Recruitment Sprints60 senior hires in 4 monthsHow a global trading platform added 60 senior engineers in four months, and nine C++ engineers in three weeks
The hub grew to over a thousand engineers. The client keeps returning for the roles that stall internally.
Banking & Financial Services · Recruitment as a Service · Employer of Record~150 senior hires a yearHow a global bank's tech hub hires 150 senior engineers a year without adding permanent recruiters
Ongoing. The same partner for the group's new entity in Spain.
Consumer & Retail · GBS launch · Executive Search · Team builds60 roles in 5 monthsHow a global beverage company launched a GBS center in five months, then kept us for the hard roles
The center now employs several hundred people. A 20-person design team hired in three weeks is almost intact three years later.
Telecommunications · New center · Volume and multilingual recruitment450 hires in 24 monthsHow a global telecom group built its first NOC and support teams in Romania: 450 hires in 24 months
The center now employs several thousand people and ranks among Romania's largest IT&C employers.
Banking & Financial Services · Tech recruitment · Scale-up60 roles in 12 monthsHow a global payments leader scaled its digital hub: 60 technology roles across 20+ specialisations in 12 months
The hub became the group's largest technology center worldwide, from ~20 people at launch to several hundred.
Engineering & R&D · Engineering site build · Leadership and teams40 roles in 12 monthsHow a network technology leader staffed a dual-discipline engineering site: 40 cloud and embedded specialists in 12 months
One of the group's European engineering locations, with its own leadership and delivery capability.
Automotive & Manufacturing · Digital centre staffing · IT & engineering40 roles in 12 monthsHow a mobility leader staffed its digital centre through a landmark merger: 40 roles in 12 months
The merger completed, creating a 15,700-employee group in 44 countries. The teams recruited help run its technology estate.
Energy & Utilities · Digital centre build · Leadership, security, NOC · French-speaking24 roles in 6 monthsHow a global energy group filled 24 specialised IT roles in six months, Head of IT included, many in French
The group went on to launch a Global Business Services organisation in Romania, targeting several hundred people.
Banking & Financial Services · Tech recruitment · In-house team build30 roles in 12 monthsHow a fast-growing Romanian bank built its in-house technology team: 30 roles in 12 months
The bank remains among the most profitable in Romania, with a return on equity above 20%.
Business Services · Finance operations · Rapid staffing30 roles in 3 monthsHow a consumer electronics leader staffed a complete finance operations team: 30 specialists in 3 months
All three towers live at once, with the General Ledger bar kept intact under a compressed timeline.
Business Services · Multilingual volume recruitment25 hires in 2 monthsHow an energy management leader staffed support in six languages in two months
Full delivery in Dutch, Czech and Slovak, the scarcest languages in the Romanian market.
Business Services · Multilingual volume · Executive and specialist roles50 roles in 6 monthsHow one of the world's largest professional services firms filled 50 roles in six months, in seven languages
A client with one of the largest internal recruitment functions in the world chose an external partner, and kept it.
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