Cognigy

Responsibilities: 
Develop and execute global talent acquisition strategies to support Cognigy’s rapid scale-up.
Lead a team of recruiters and hiring managers to optimize hiring processes, improving efficiency and quality of hires.
Drive employer branding initiatives to position Cognigy as a top employer in AI and SaaS.
Collaborate with C-level executives to align recruitment with business goals, ensuring a pipeline of high-caliber talent.
Implement hiring strategies to track recruitment metrics and enhance decision-making.
Negotiate compensation structures and ensure market competitiveness to attract and retain top candidates.
Enhance candidate experience through interview coaching, structured hiring frameworks, and innovative sourcing techniques.

Key Impact:
Scaled Cognigy’s team from 90 to 250+ employee.
Improved time-to-hire by 63% through process enhancements.
Increased offer acceptance rate to 91%, ensuring Cognigy attracts top-tier talent.
Reduced cost-per-hire by 95% through optimized sourcing and referrals.
Launched a new Diversity & Inclusion hiring framework, increasing underrepresented talent by 29%.

Senior Manager Talent Acquisition

Built and led a high-performing recruitment team to support company growth.
Designed and implemented scalable hiring frameworks, ensuring consistency and efficiency.
Partnered with executives to develop workforce planning and talent forecasting strategies.
Improved candidate engagement by introducing innovative outreach and sourcing techniques.
Established a structured interview and assessment process, reducing hiring bias and improving candidate selection.

Talent Acquisition Manager

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Albert Bow

Building close relationships with both candidate and client, deliver meaningful career opportunities to candidates and support my clients in attracting the best talent to achieve their company goals. Managing multiple client accounts and leading a team of Junior and Senior Consultants while also perform to a consistently high level in terms of sales billing and new business.
Working solely in the German Market across all areas of Recruitment.

Senior Team Lead

MAM Business Intelligence Ltd

- Farming, Headhunting and cold calling potential candidates and new leads
- Actively pursue new business through cold calling, researching leads and by following the technological trends
- Screening, testing and assessing candidates
- Drawing up short lists of suitable candidates
- Focusing on the growth and maintaining relationships of existing accounts and the acquiring of new business.
- Worked with 15+ different clients in all different industries such as Pharma, Automotive, IT Consulting, telecommunications, finance etc.

Senior Account Manager & Team Lead BI / Big Data / DevOps

- Farming, Headhunting and cold calling potential candidates and new leads
- Actively pursue new business through cold calling, researching leads and by following the technological trends
- Screening, testing and assessing candidates
- Drawing up short lists of suitable candidates
- Contribute ideas for marketing and advertisement of new products and assist in the development of engaging sales pitches.
- Focusing on the growth and maintaining relationships of existing accounts and the acquiring of new business
- Worked with 15+ different clients in all different industries such as Pharma, Automotive, IT Consulting, telecommunications, finance etc

Account Manager & Business Development Representative 

- Headhunting and cold calling potential candidates
- Screening, testing and assessing candidates
- Drawing up short lists of suitable candidates
- Building own database of clients and contacts
- Worked with 15+ different clients in all different industries such as Pharma, Automotive, IT Consulting, telecommunications, finance etc.
- Worked for multiple different jobs in the IT with main focus on the Market of Cloud, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, DevOps and Software Development

Recruitment Consultant/ Lead Sourcer

With over 18 years in customer service and 15 years in sales, including a decade of leading recruitment teams, I bring a wealth of experience in Account Management, Sourcing, Research, Training, Motivation, and Coaching. My deep understanding of the German, European, and Global markets, combined with an extensive network, empowers me to tackle any recruitment challenge in IT, Sales, and Marketing.


+44 7505434701
M.balaskas@cognigy.com

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