Sofie L’Eau
Director, Global Talent Acquisition Excelya
Sofie L’Eau is Global Talent Acquisition Director at Excelya, a fast-growing global CRO. With over 15 years of experience in talent acquisition, organisational transformation, and employer branding, she leads the design and execution of Excelya’s global hiring strategy. Since joining the organisation, she has rebuilt the Talent Acquisition function to support the company’s ambitious growth trajectory, introducing scalable processes, digital solutions, and data-driven decision making that more than doubled recruitment win rates within 12 months.
Seminars
Tuesday 2nd February 2027
Discover: Recruitment Doesn’t Need More Recruiters – Why We Rebuilt the Entire Talent Acquisition Model
10:40 am
- Find out how Excelya chose a different path to transform TA into a strategic growth enabler in a scaling life sciences company, rather than investing in additional recruiters, new tools, or external agencies
- Discover how a complete redesign of Talent Acquisition operations, governance, technology and stakeholder ownership helped double recruitment win rates from 24% to 51%, while creating a sustainable foundation for future growth
- Understand how to challenge traditional assumptions about scaling recruitment and align business leaders, hiring managers, and recruiters around shared hiring accountability
Tuesday 2nd February 2027
Develop: As You Scale Recruitment Operations, What Has Been the Hardest Thing to Standardise Successfully?
11:40 am
Go beyond the case study: This is your chance to ask questions that uncover the decisions, challenges and lessons behind the results
