Yohun Lobo

• Internally transferred to Trent with a mandate to manage critical hiring and specific TA projects

• Lead a team of two to execute talent acquisition for Star Bazaar & Star Quik at the corporate level.
• Create & manage sourcing strategies to ensure top quality hires within set budgets for functional and business teams.
• Manage candidate experience during the entire process.
• Generate monthly metrics & reports to assess the hiring status and plan ahead.
• Ensure a healthy source mix with minimal use of recruitment vendors.
• Manage all leadership hiring for the organization.
• Engage with and strengthen relationships with core stakeholders. Act as an advisor with respect to new role definition, identifying critical roles and creating a pipeline of suitable candidates for future requirements.
• Mentor, upskill and drive team members to maintain high engagement & productivity levels.

Achievements

Maintained consultant usage to below 3% thereby saving costs to the tune of INR 20 lakhs for the organisation.

Closed 40 open positions within the first three months of joining.

Streamlined the onboarding process thus enhancing candidate experience.

• Worked with the Central Talent Acquisition Strategy COE team visualizing and executing core talent acquisition projects to better equip our business HR teams in their quest for talent.
• Part of the core team that developed, tested and deployed the HR automation tool HOT(Hiring & Onboarding Tool).
• Worked extensively on the candidate portal, recruiter interface, onboarding module, medical verification portal & vendor portal.
• Independently created the workflows and SOPs for the same.
• Trained all HR teams across 8 businesses on the use of this tool through classroom and virtual sessions.
• Supported the team for essential troubleshooting during roll out and was key SPOC & SME for all future troubleshooting.
• Initiate multiple new developments to enhance the tool based on regular feedback received from the Business HR teams.
• Redesigned and successfully relaunched the employee referral program (Parichay) successfully automating the entire candidate acquisition and referral payout process.
• Independently managed the LinkedIn company page and was responsible for all content.
• Developed a posting strategy in line with the organisation's vision.
• Increased followers from 60k to 1 Lakh+ without any external agency support.
• During the latter part of my stint at Reliance retail, I was part of two businesses, Reliance Market and the Value Format.
• Managed talent acquisition for specific functions (Marketing,General Merchandise,Space,Range &Display, Master Data Management).

Achievements

Independently developed process workflows for two modules for the HR tool.

Drove engagement on Linkedin for the official page. building followers up from 60k to 1 Lakhs in 8 months.

Closed over 100+ positions with the Value Format team in a period of 1 year.

Won "Best HR in a Supporting Role(2017) & Best HR team(Value Format)(2022).

• Managed hiring for the Mumbai Zone for Future Retail Limited (Big Bazaar, Food Bazaar & FBB businesses).
• Partnered with the business on manpower planning.
• Ensuring compliance in all recruitment processes.
• Drove the IJP & referral programs to close critical positions and reduce hiring costs.
• Initiated tie ups with NGOs for Store level Staff.
• Managed all new store managerial hiring projects.
• Streamlined onboarding processes for new hires, reducing time to acclimate to company culture.

Achievements

Completed managerial hiring of 3 NSO stores in a period of 45 days.

Maintained zero vendor usage for all hiring.

• Responsible for talent acquisition for the Advisory vertical in specialized areas namely risk advisory services and Internal firm services.
• Provided hiring support to a critical project for a large telecom client.
• Supported the Associate Director on specific search assignments.

• Handled frontline hiring for the India Business vertical(Clients – Thomas Cook & Flipkart).
• Managed vendors, their empanelment and productivity ensuring quality manpower availability at all times.
• Driving employee references to maintain a healthy source mix.
• Responsible for the induction of all new hires for the India Business Vertical.
• Ensuring smooth onboarding with support from the onboarding team and HRBP.

Achievements

Consistently had 160 joiners a month during the first 3 months of joining.

• Was responsible for hiring for business teams(Sales,Collections & F&A) as well as corporate functions at HO.
• Was deployed to the Call Center to manage hiring and business partnering including employee engagement & employee relations.
• Handled hiring and HR activities for two greenfield projects with a total manpower strength of 280 employees.

Achievements

Achieved 300 joiners per month for a new telecom process.

Independently managed the call centre with a headcount of 500.

Won "Star of the year" (2012) for exceptional performance in hiring.

• Was responsible for hiring mandates for multiple search firms(Worked across industries, job roles & levels).
• Conducted market mapping exercises to create a strong pipeline of relevant profiles.
• Calibrated searches based on compensation data points and specific role requirements.
• Responsible for the entire candidate life-cycle and candidate experience(excluding offer negotiation).