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Receptionist

Rahul Kashyap

Newtown

Summary

Strategic Thinker. Insatiably Curious. Results Driven

Retail professional with more than 14 years of solid experience across multiple retail disciplines - Senior HR Business Partner, Organizational Development, Employee Relations , Employee Training, Talent Development and Payroll. Known to challenge the status quo, co-create practical and focused strategies and solutions together with the business to tackle issues that has the largest impact and that can make a difference.

Expertise: Training & Delivery/ Performance Management/ Competency Mapping/ Assessment/TTT/ Coaching and Mentoring/ Learning Strategy/ CBA / HR Analytics / Content Development/ Succession Planing / Talent Management

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Regional Head | L&D / HRBP|

Arvind Lifestyle Brands Ltd
Kolkata
12.2020 - Current

Highlights: Ability to quickly ramp and execute to new role despite multiple periods of dealing with dual roles and integrating into larger organization’s network.

  • Provided end to end HR solutions including Employee Relation and Employee development for approximately 500 employees from East with business volume of Rs 350 Cr.
  • Developed and implemented L&D strategies for business, including performance management, succession planning, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion.
  • Designed Employee Engagement Calendar (EEC) framework in partnership with business to enable proactive employee connect. Defined TAT for resolution any issues raised by employee .
  • Partner with business leaders to resolve complex employee relation issues; conduct thorough and effective training . Provide training related needs to front line managers.
  • Design and facilitate leadership training for senior management and front-line managers.
  • Strategized and led formation and execution of a People Transformation project to address need for more transparency across silo-ed organization and leaders resulted in reduced attrition by 10%.
  • Designed and implemented diversity and inclusion programs to ingrate diverse employees into workforce and enhance retention rate.
  • Manage talents in partnership with business through hiring, retention programs, employee sensing and rewards.
  • Facilitated and lead annual performance management process by organizing sessions with Line managers. Communicating performance review, budget utilization and generate recommendations for strategic alignment.
  • Act as a strategic business partner to Regional Business Unit and Senior Leadership team) to understand organization’s business strategies and align human resource strategy and programs to achieve business goals, including alignment of succession planning, leadership development, resource planning, talent acquisition, compensation and performance management.
  • Partner with HR Functions including HO HRBP(s), HR Shared Service Compensation and Benefits, Talent Management, Learning and Development to implement HR strategies and programs in alignment with business objectives

Senior Manager Learning & Development

Godrej & Boyce
Kolkata
02.2020 - 12.2020

Highlights: Accelerated performance of sales team thru continuous intervention of micro learning and online training.

  • Drove cost-effective strategies to increase sales by delivering continuous training sessions.
  • Designed micro learning strategy in sales training to reduce GTM TAT days for Coverage
  • Constant evaluation/monitoring of training application processes and performance including developing ideas to support continuous improvement, operational efficiencies and standardization.
  • Designed online assessment center's with help of co creation with business partners/stakeholders.
  • Designed byte size learning video’s for sales team with objective improve performance on go

Training Manager

Arvind Lifestyle Brand Lts
Kolkata
07.2015 - 12.2020

Highlights: Lead pan India in establishing vendor ecosystem program in training and established the project delta training for execution.

  • Lead Training program for 3000 employees on functional and skill based training.
  • Strategically identifies and deployment of 44 trainers to be utilized for training coverage and < 3days of GTM
  • Managed L&D metrics such as Quality of Training, Training Effectiveness, Cost of Training and Speed of response of training interventions.
  • Lead pan India on project delta ie Retainers for flawlessly execution of coaching on go which led to increase of business by 5% across
  • Interacted with employees, business management and HR to create cohesive Assessment center program for (2 days).
  • Played key role in supporting HR team in developing and rolling out strategic learning interventions for senior leadership and their second line.
  • Leveraged talent review process and succession plans to ensure a personal development plan for top talent and hi potentials.
  • Developed L&D processes of nomination, feedback, budgeting etc. Ensure good communication flow between all stakeholders’ i.e business managers, HR managers, trainers and training participants.
  • Developed E-learning and Classroom content related to both functional and skill based training program
  • Experience in developing content using ADDIE model

Learning & Delivery Specialist | ASM|

Aditya Birla Group ( Pantaloons Retail)
Nagpur & Kolkata
09.2011 - 08.2015
  • Deliver required training days in a month (this includes CRT and SBT)
  • Responsible for all Training & Development activities Pan India Pantaloons
  • Monitoring, updating & reviewing training activities for all levels across region
  • Designing training modules and content development on various dimension of Retailing from entry to senior level
  • Specialize in Retail Product, skill based training, processes and behavioral training
  • Over 2000 people been trained on different aspect of Retailing Pan India
  • Conducts capsule training version as and when required to boost up retail operations
  • Ensuring profitability of store by achieving financial targets Making sure that all departments are aligned with their targets Making day wise plan for departments and their heads
  • Business analysis of store. Store size of 35000sq.ft. With annual turnover of 23Crores
  • Weekly briefing and meetings with all category function performance Conducting P&L review for each departments

Area Sales Manager

Lilliput India
Ranchi
03.2011 - 08.2011

Was heading operation of brand for Jharkhand Region

Business capacity (8 stores including 2 world store) Team size :32 manpower Area: 28319 Sqft

Department Manager

Shoppers Stop Ltd
Gurgaon
03.2010 - 03.2011

Overseeing the entire store floor operations & targets for entire department

Meet store sales and target & Plan the line of action for achievement of Given sales Targets.

Motivating the team to achieve the sales target by updating them with the sales figure

Department Manager

Ritu Wears
New Delhi
02.2009 - 04.2010

Formulating target distribution department and sub department wise and there achievement

StrategymakingAnalysisandmonitoringofstockssaleandstaff lookingafter replenishment /stock management

Education

MBA - Retail

IMIS
Bhubaneswar
03.2009

Bachelor of Commerce -

Sri Aurobindo College, Delhi University
Delhi
03.2007

Skills

  • Succession Planning
  • Leaders Onboarding
  • Leadership Development
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Coaching
  • Micro-learning
  • Designing Learning Strategy
  • Designing Assessment Centers
  • Competency Mapping
  • Performance Management
  • ROI driven Training
  • Talent Acquisition
  • Capability Building
  • Talent Management

Certification

  • Talent Management- XLRI
  • NLP Practitioner
  • SHL Assessor
  • Design Thinking


Languages

English
Upper intermediate
B2
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Regional Head | L&D / HRBP|

Arvind Lifestyle Brands Ltd
12.2020 - Current

Senior Manager Learning & Development

Godrej & Boyce
02.2020 - 12.2020

Training Manager

Arvind Lifestyle Brand Lts
07.2015 - 12.2020

Learning & Delivery Specialist | ASM|

Aditya Birla Group ( Pantaloons Retail)
09.2011 - 08.2015

Area Sales Manager

Lilliput India
03.2011 - 08.2011

Department Manager

Shoppers Stop Ltd
03.2010 - 03.2011

Department Manager

Ritu Wears
02.2009 - 04.2010

MBA - Retail

IMIS

Bachelor of Commerce -

Sri Aurobindo College, Delhi University
  • Talent Management- XLRI
  • NLP Practitioner
  • SHL Assessor
  • Design Thinking


Rahul Kashyap