Kristina Ilieva

Senior Talent Partner - Lead for Global Marketing & Communications hiring

Deel

May 2025 - Current (1 year 2 months)

Global Talent Strategy Lead for the Marketing & Communications functions at Deel. I own hiring for our marketing org globally, supporting the leadership team with role and team structure design, building candidate selection processes. I build and execute the talent sourcing strategy for the function. Take a look at our careers page to learn about our values and explore remote-first open opportunities across the globe!

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Organisational & Talent Strategy Consultant and Career Coach

Talent Ascent

Feb 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)

As part of my ongoing development toward certification as a Business Psychologist, I provide ad-hoc coaching and mentorship support to scaling organisations and experienced professionals when capacity allows. Specifically, I can support organisations seeking strategic guidance as they establish or mature their hiring and talent infrastructure. My work focuses on enabling leaders to design team structures and effective talent selection and evaluation processes that scale sustainably. Alongside this, I provide career and interview coaching for experienced professionals navigating transitions -particularly those from marketing, go-to-market, or product backgrounds across EMEA and North America. My coaching combines organisational psycholog

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Disney+ & Disney Studios EMEA

The Walt Disney Company

Nov 2023 - Jan 2025 (1 year 3 months)

Recruitment Lead for Disney Media Entertainment EMEA, I owned the hiring strategy for several prominent digital entertainment brands from the Disney portfolio: Disney+, ABC News, ESPN Sport, and Disney Studios (Disney Animation, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios). I supported executive leadership across all EMEA functional departments, including marketing, product, sales, analytics, and more.

Lead Recruiter, Non-Tech - EMEA, Amazon Music & Amazon Games

Amazon

Mar 2022 - Sep 2023 (1 year 7 months)

First EMEA hire in the talent team for Amazon Music & Amazon games, I lead talent strategy for all non-technical roles (all specialisms outside of software development and technical program management). My mission was to build out the Amazon Music & Amazon Games EMEA go-to-market teams - product, marketing, data, sales, and more. I worked with function leaders to standardise hiring practices and safeguard best practices in compliance with EMEA regulations.

Technical Recruiter - EMEA, Amazon Music & Amazon Games

Amazon

Mar 2022 - Jun 2022 (4 months)

Talent Acquisition - Global Talent Sourcing Specialist - EU&EEMEA

PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL

Jun 2021 - Mar 2022 (10 months)

Part of the Global Talent Sourcing team at Philip Morris International. Working closely with business leaders on recruitment projects across all functions to source talent who will drive the operational and digital transformation of PMI entities across the EU and EEMEA markets. Focus areas include digital, marketing, analytics, finance, HR, IT, and etc. Providing employment market intelligence and consulting in order to optimize the recruitment strategy.

Talent Acquisition - Global Talent Sourcing Specialist - Enabling Functions

PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL

May 2021 - Jun 2021 (2 months)

Global Talent Acquisition Business Partner - Executive Management Recruitment

BAT

Apr 2020 - May 2021 (1 year 2 months)

Part of the global executive talent acquisition team, I specialise in the identification of senior leadership professionals across the world, in a range of functions, with a particular focus on complex transformations and digitalisation. As a global company in a fast-paced industry, we’re undergoing some of the most exciting changes in our history. It is the perfect opportunity to come and help shape our journey; It is a chance to take control in a challenging environment and do something that you are passionate about, whether that’s in combustible tobacco or our potentially reduced-risk products business. Innovation is at the heart of our future, just as our people and their diversity are at the heart of our entire business right now. W

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Talent Manager

Talent Intelligence

Feb 2019 - Apr 2020 (1 year 3 months)

Part of a talent management consultancy with international reach, I support established global businesses in the FMCG, Consumer Electronics, and Logistics sectors. I represent ambitious organisations undergoing continuous transformation which empowers them to remain at the leading edge of their industries. Key clients February 2019 - September 2019 Philip Morris International - Global Talent Sourcing team, Science and Innovation, Europe region October 2019 - April 2020 Unilever Denmark Mars Germany Royal Canin Italy Cargotec EE My work includes talent sourcing, talent pipelining, market mapping, succession planning, executive search, and competitive intelligence projects. I support a variety of functions, including sales, finance, marke

Recruitment Consultant - Business Support

Huntress

Jun 2018 - Feb 2019 (9 months)

Worked as a Recruitment Consultant specializing in business support roles which were essential for the day to day tactical operations of SMB clients. Focused on a range of sectors including retail, luxury fashion, and technology. • Managed end-to-end recruitment cycle, from project briefing to offer management • Passive and active candidate attraction, screening and management • Talent pipelining • Lead client meetings • ATS, Salesforce • Use of job boards, job ad design

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Recruitment Consultant - Multilingual Hires

Advancing People Multilingual

Jan 2017 - Mar 2018 (1 year 3 months)

As a Consultant with Advancing people I worked on various entry to mid-level management commercial roles across the UK, supporting a portfolio of SMBs and large multinational clients with their talent needs on the UK market. My work included • End to end recruitment cycle management, from role briefing to offer and relocation negotiation • Active and passive candidate attraction • Remote interviews with European candidates • Lead a 3 month high-volume seasonal recruitment project for a large ecommerce retailer and became one of the top performing talent sourcing suppliers nationally. • Worked on circa 20 vacancies at any given time, across varied functions and industries Some example roles include: Marketing and Sales executives, Acco

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Recruiting Sourcer

Advancing People Multilingual

Oct 2016 - Jan 2017 (4 months)

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