Gabriel Iliescu · HR & Workforce Consultant
Compensation & Benefits · Job Evaluation · Workforce Planning
I am an economist with an Executive MBA and experience in HR, consulting, operational management and procurement. I believe that integrating AI into organizations should support both operational efficiency and people’s development. As roles and skills evolve, I see an important role for HR in preparing for this change and building balanced collaboration between people and technology.
My interest in AI brings together a focus on how people learn, develop and work together with a desire to turn ideas into solutions to real problems. I am drawn to the opportunity to contribute to the development and use of this technology to simplify work, support better-informed decisions and create new opportunities for people and organizations to grow. This is where I would like to apply my HR and business experience, alongside what I am learning and building in AI.
Since 2010, my consulting work has covered recruitment and selection, compensation and benefits, performance management (including goal setting), job evaluation, salary structures and workforce management. I have also contributed to projects on organizational culture, mission, vision and values, as well as to employee opinion surveys.
Vodafone Romania · Cosmote Romania (OTE – Deutsche Telekom) · 2002–2013
My experience covers compensation and benefits, workforce planning, personnel cost budgeting and HR reporting, as well as adapting HR information systems (HRIS/HRMS) to business needs. I have also contributed to organizational transformation and design projects, and to the integration of group companies.
Alongside the HR team, as a colleague and internal adviser, I contributed to a broader organizational transformation project. My contribution included job analysis, Mercer-based evaluation of all company positions, job grading and salary structures, as well as support in organizational design, workforce planning and personnel budgeting. The resulting job and salary grids were approved and implemented.
During 2025–2026, I intensified my hands-on work with AI through AIBRIEL, combining business experience with the development of applications, prototypes and AI-enabled workflows. This work spans product concepts, user journeys, business requirements, development with AI assistance, testing and deployment. Through these projects, I have gained basic practical knowledge of AI solution architecture, model integration, knowledge retrieval, persistent memory, workflow orchestration and output evaluation.
The applications I develop are designed to simplify work that takes too much time, automate repetitive tasks and help people find the information they need to make a decision. Some address a single task, while others bring several steps of a process together.
My contribution connects business needs with practical product decisions: defining the problem and intended users, structuring functionality, integrating AI capabilities, evaluating outputs and refining the experience through testing. This gives me a practical perspective on how domain expertise, clear requirements and iterative evaluation contribute to building useful AI products.
My current focus is applying HR domain knowledge to the development and evaluation of useful AI solutions. Depending on the project, my contribution could include:
Review HR scenarios and AI-generated answers for accuracy, completeness and practical usefulness. Identify unsupported assumptions and situations requiring human review.
Possible output: evaluation criteria, reviewed examples and structured feedback.
Translate an HR process into clear requirements: the decision to support, necessary inputs, business rules, exceptions and acceptance criteria.
Possible output: a scoped use case and a requirements brief.
Support product teams working on job evaluation, salary structures, personnel cost budgeting and workforce planning.
Possible output: a domain review of the proposed logic, workflows and scenarios.
I can help teams developing AI solutions understand HR needs and processes, define the required functionality and assess whether the results are accurate and useful in practice. Depending on the team’s needs, I can contribute to a broader project or take on specific tasks, such as analyzing HR scenarios or evaluating AI-generated responses.
HR Consultant and Company Director. Independent HR consulting and personnel leasing projects.
Procurement Director, 2022–September 2026. Team of 10; annual procurement value managed above EUR 130 million. Temporary leadership of Logistics, including transport and warehousing, January 2023–January 2024: team of 140 and annual logistics procurement value above EUR 20 million. In 2021, as Business Partner, I supported marketing and commercial projects and the merger of companies within the AAylex group in December 2021. The HR contribution is described above.
Management roles in remuneration, HR reporting and planning, followed by HR Planning, Rewarding & Organizational Effectiveness Senior Manager in 2013. I built and led a team of specialists and coordinated reward and workforce planning across four group companies. Scope included Cosmote, Germanos, Telemobil and Sunlight, and preparations for integration with Romtelecom.
HR roles from 2004: Specialist in Compensation, Benefits and HRIS; subsequently Project Manager in Compensation, Benefits and HRMS, 2005–2008. I adapted HR information systems to business needs and designed and implemented compensation and benefits programmes. Earlier role: Customer Service Representative, 2002–2003.
My education in economics and the Executive MBA program I completed at ASEBUSS and Kennesaw State University complement my experience in HR and operational leadership. This combination helps me consider decisions about people, organizational structure and costs in the context of the company’s objectives. My entrepreneurial experience in e-commerce through Lotus World SRL and in real estate services through Regency Property adds a practical understanding of commercial processes, systems and teams.
Through AIBRIEL, I am developing my work at the intersection of HR, business processes and AI.
Executive MBA, 2013–2015 · Degree in Economics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Faculty of Management, 1996–2000
Romanian: native · English: C1
I am open to remote, project-based and part-time collaborations with AI companies, HR technology teams and their delivery partners. I can work directly on a project as an individual contributor and take on B2B engagements through my company. Depending on the project’s requirements, I can assemble and lead a team of HR professionals, including subject matter experts and experienced HR executives.
gabriel.iliescu@aibriel.com ↗