London, United Kingdom, January 2026 – Vanessa van de Venter has taken on a new global leadership role as Global Head of Talent Acquisition, Grid Technologies at Siemens Energy, where she leads multi-regional hiring strategy, workforce planning, and TA transformation across Europe, the Americas, APAC, and MEA for one of Siemens Energy’s fastest-growing business areas.
Prior to this appointment, Vanessa van de Venter served as Global Lead – Talent Acquisition Service Management at Siemens Energy, leading global key-account aligned TA service teams responsible for strategic partnership, location and demand planning, escalations, and high-priority global hiring programs. She played a pivotal role in aligning talent acquisition strategy with business growth priorities across multiple regions.
Alongside this role, she also served as Head of HR – Türkiye & Central Asia (Interim), where she partnered with regional leadership to implement a state-of-the-art HR operating model, drive workforce planning, employee experience, leadership development, and change management initiatives.
Earlier in her career, Vanessa built deep executive and professional recruitment expertise at Siemens, where she served as Global Executive Recruiting Manager, Talent Acquisition Partner, and Talent Acquisition Consultant, leading global executive search, leadership pipelining, ATS implementations, candidate experience programs, and international hiring strategies.
She began her professional career in recruitment, sales, and business development roles across Highpoint Recruitment, First Distribution, Terrapinn, Nashua, and Direction Management.
About Siemens Energy
Siemens Energy is a global leader in energy technology, covering almost the entire energy value chain—from power generation and transmission to storage and renewable technologies—supporting the transition to a more sustainable energy future across more than 90 countries worldwide.
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