# Sylvia Stoyanova

Sylvia Stoyanova is a remote worker on Himalayas, European HRBP at GPA Global UK, based in United Kingdom.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@sylviastoyanova

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I align people, culture, and business strategy across international organisations navigating growth, change, and transformation.
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| Detail | Value |
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| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Authorized to work in | United Kingdom |
| Salary expectations | 40k+ GBP |
| Job categories | HR Business Partner, Human Resources Director, Talent Acquisition Manager, HR Manager |
| Skills | HR Strategy, Business Partnering, Organizational Culture, Talent Acquisition, HR Operations, Rewards, Learning and Development, Change Management, Project Management, Stakeholder Management, Data Analysis, Budgeting, Digital Transformation, Team Building, Matrix Management, Workforce Planning, Diversity And Inclusion, Talent Management, Succession Planning, Performance Management, Compensation Benchmarking, Job Evaluation, Payroll, M&A, TUPE, HRIS, Workday, BambooHR, PeopleHR, Microsoft Office, English, Russian, French, Serbo Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/sylviastoyanova |

## What I'm looking for

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I'm looking to lead people strategy in an international organisation where I can strengthen culture, leadership capability, and organisational effectiveness through growth, transformation, and change.
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## About

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At GPA Global, I support teams across the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, and France, aligning people and culture priorities with organisational performance, leadership capability, growth, and change.

I've built and redesigned HR functions across start-ups and blue-chip businesses, including scaling AirLabs from 20 to 55 employees and supporting international expansion across Europe, Asia, China, Singapore, and the USA. My work spans people strategy, talent acquisition, employee relations, TUPE, reward, payroll, and organisational change.

Across Pfizer, Carlsberg, retail, and financial services, I've led recruitment, talent, performance, culture, M&A, HRIS, and process-standardisation initiatives across multiple countries. I bring a practical, multilingual approach to building trusted partnerships and translating business needs into effective people strategies.
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## Experience

### European HRBP (current)

GPA Global UK. Sep 2022 - Present

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Senior People leader supporting organisational effectiveness, performance, and leadership capability across a growing, international business. Focused on aligning people and culture priorities with business performance, strengthening leadership clarity, and supporting teams through periods of change and growth.
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Skills: HR-Business-Partnering, Organizational-Effectiveness, Performance-Management, Leadership-Development, Change-Management

### Head of HR

AirLabs UK Ltd.. Aug 2020 - Aug 2022

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Established the HR function in a start-up company with offices in London and Copenhagen, scaling from 20 to 55 staff in 6 months. Managed bonus and equity schemes, reorganizations, redundancies, policy implementation, and international expansion.
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Skills: HR-Function-Setup, Scaling, Incentive-Compensation, Employee-Value-Proposition-(EVP), Restructuring, Redundancy, Policy-Implementation, Payroll, Employee-Relations, Onboarding, TUPE, International-Expansion

### Talent Acquisition Manager UK & Europe

[Pfizer](https://himalayas.app/companies/pfizer). Jun 2018 - Jul 2020

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Managed end-to-end recruitment for senior positions across EMEA. Handled stakeholder management at all levels including VPs and Senior Directors, and was part of the D&I team in the UK.
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Skills: Talent-Acquisition, End-to-End-Recruitment, Stakeholder-Management, Diversity-And-Inclusion

### HR BP Cluster Lead

[Pfizer](https://himalayas.app/companies/pfizer). Apr 2014 - May 2018

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Managed HR operations in Bulgaria, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Coached managers during restructuring, merger and acquisition, and implemented talent management strategy. Led Workday (ATS) implementation for 9 countries.
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Skills: HR-Operations, Talent-Management, Coaching, Restructuring, M&A, Workday, ATS-Implementation, Job-Evaluation, Benchmarking, Succession-Planning

### HR Manager Bulgaria

[Pfizer](https://himalayas.app/companies/pfizer). Mar 2010 - Apr 2014

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Created the HR function and implemented culture and organisational change initiatives. Coached managers during restructuring, merger and acquisition, and implemented global projects.
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Skills: HR-Department-Creation, Culture-Change, Organisational-Change, Coaching, Restructuring, M&A, Global-Projects, Job-Evaluation, Benchmarking

### Human Resources Director

Retail and Start-up Financial Services Companies. Jan 2007 - Jan 2010

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Improved overall management of HR function in a company with 850 permanent FTE across Balkan countries. Created and implemented Performance Management System, established the company, team recruitment, and designed the organizational structure.
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Skills: HR-Management, Performance-Management, Team-Recruitment, Organizational-Design, People-Strategy, Workforce-Planning, Budgeting, Geo-Expansion

### Human Resources Director

Carlsberg Bulgaria AD. Jan 2003 - Dec 2006

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Established and managed the HR function in a company with 520 permanent FTE. Led HR topics during merger and reorganisation, and created and implemented Performance Management System, Employee Engagement, Talent Development program, Grading system, and compensation framework.
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Skills: HR-Function-Setup, M&A, Performance-Management, Employee-Engagement, Talent-Development, Grading, Compensation-Structures, Job-Evaluation, Benchmarking

### Administrative and Personnel Management

Various companies – Financial Services. Jan 1999 - Dec 2002

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Held administrative and personnel management positions in various financial services companies.
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## Education

### CIPD

Associate Member, Human Resources

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Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
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### Technical University of Sofia

Master of Computer Science, Computer Science

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Master of Computer Science from the Technical University of Sofia.
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### GCDF

GCDF - Certificate Global Career Development Facilitator, Career Development

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Certificate as a Global Career Development Facilitator.
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### IESE Business School

Certificate of Developing Leadership Competencies, Leadership

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Certificate in Developing Leadership Competencies from IESE Business School.
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## Tech stack

- Workday
- BambooHR

To contact Sylvia, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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