10/05/2025 updated


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Project, Program & Portfolio Mngmt Consultant
Otopeni, Romania
Worldwide
Master in Business Administration, Graduated International Relations.Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)Agile MethodologyAmazon Web ServicesAsanaAutomationBankingCustomer Relationship ManagementCustomer ExperienceCommunicationCreatividadDevOpsDigitizationDisaster RecoveryHuman Resources Information System (HRIS)French
Irina Mateciuc is a senior Project, Program, and Portfolio Manager, Scrum Master, and Agile
Coach with 16+ years of experience driving complex IT, cybersecurity, and digital
transformation initiatives across global enterprises, EU institutions, and regulated industries. She
has led full-cycle implementations of enterprise platforms and tools including SAP (HCM, SCM),
ServiceNow (MyIT, E-Visitors, @Hello Admin, HR Onboarding), Salesforce (CRM), Workday
(HRIS), SailPoint (IAM), Drata (compliance automation), Burp Suite (vulnerability scanning),
Assignment Pro (mobility), Pinpoint (API integrations) or Monday.com (Agile PMO).
Irina has built and scaled PMOs, designed governance frameworks, and delivered portfolios
exceeding 80+ projects annually. She excels in Agile, waterfall, hybrid, and DevOps
environments, having served as Scrum Master and Agile Coach across multiple organizations—
training teams, guiding delivery, and embedding operational excellence. Her leadership spans
cybersecurity risk assessments, compliance programs, cloud transformations (AWS), and secure
infrastructure delivery—including Disaster Recovery Centers and Telemedicine platforms.
Known for her clarity, energy, and strategic foresight, Irina combines technical fluency with
operational rigor. She holds certifications in Project Management, ITIL V4, Quality Management,
and operates under EU and NATO Secret clearance. Fluent in English and Romanian, with
intermediate French, she is immediately available for remote or on-site leadership roles.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2023
Languages
EnglishNative speakerFrenchGoodItalianBasic knowledgeSpanishBasic knowledge
Project history
- Part of Enterprise CyberSecurity & Risk, ECR PMO of Estee Lauder Companies.
- Part of Global Techology & IT Center from Bucharest, Romania.
- Contributing in setting up KPIs and Metrics for ECR.
- Contributing in documenting ECR processes.
- Manage a team of 7 benefit specialists, supporting over 37,000 employees across 41 countries, in EMEA.
- Manage overall administration of benefits programs including savings and retirement (pension and savings/ share plan), health & wellness (medical, dental, etc), risk & protection (life, accidental death and disability, long term disability, short termdisability, income protection, etc)
- Define the yearly and multi-yearly strategy for the department in terms of benefits administration, new benefits plans and automations, planning the yearly projects/ roadmap for the countries and regionally at EMEA level and roll it out; making sure processes related to administration are documented, reviewed, audited and improved/ simplified in striving for best quality and continues improvement.
- Deliver project management support on complex benefit initiatives, including translating business needs into project plans, gathering customer requirements, conducting impact assessments, and defining milestones, timelines, deliverables and quality standards.
- Coaching and mentoring on project management and leadership on individual basis adapted to needs.
- Develop and execute change management strategies for benefits delivery and operational activities, including launching and integrating new or modified benefits plans, processes and vendors.
- Define and monitor benefits administration metrics, perform root cause analysis on defects and implement remediating actions.
- Partnered with and managed relationships with benefits brokers, carriers, vendors and subject matter experts ensuring delivery of high quality programs in accordance with industry best practices and legal compliance
- Responded to and resolved a variety of escalated benefit issues.
- Kept abreast of industry and market trends, benefits related technology, labor law, and healthcare reform initiatives Tracked, monitored and analyzed health claims and benefit plan costs and trends
- Transitioned the Benefits Analyst roles from CZ Republic and UK to Romania Hub, managed the recruitment, onboarding and training programs for new team.
- Designed, implemented and delivered annual Human Resource Services - HRS Connected training and development - program for internal talents.
- Lead global and regional technical, compliance, digitization projects and programs having RPA components in the journey of achieving HR 3.0 for Honeywell.
- Initiatives are across multiple functions, with high exposure, criticality and reporting up to Sr HR VP of Honeywell and his direct reports, with project teams between 8-50 members.
- Standardized Job Titles globally across Honeywell for +140k Employees and 19 global functions. Data Reorganization with impact in all HR & IT Systems, executed a complex Change and Communication Plan and managed more than 200 Stakeholders from all business units and functions.
- Implemented Data Privacy Policies across 38 Non-EU Countries from EMEA, LATAM impacting +45k Employees. Change Request adding new 16 Non-Eu Countries in scope, +20k Employees impacted.
- Implemented a new organization called Onboarding in a lift and shift regional project which is managing in house now onboarding services transferred from vendors.
- Delivering a new Car Policy 2.0, implementing Fuel Cards, Fleet management, GPS services for cars in EMEA for 46 Countries and a technical tool that is helping reporting on business vs private mileage.
- Leading the Talent Mobility Evolution project which aligns Global Mobility Services organization to the newest technology on the market in this niche (Assignment Pro and Pinpoint) together with multiple API Integrations.
- Delivering Russia Compliance Project which localizes all applicable HR applications on Russian soil, according to law requirements, designing the new processes and implementing a web platform for exchanging scanned documents for Candidates and Employees.
- Leading EY Transition to UCMS (HRA & Payrollservices) across four countries (KAZ, BLR, UZB & UZB)