As a Talent and Organisation Lead, I was responsible for organisation talent strategies including indenfying talent, driving talent development initiatives, succession planning and change management initiatives. Achievements - • Led in-house development and rollout of a companywide skill assessment portal to assess behavioural training needs and employee potential with 97% completion rate among 2200 employees. The internal portal also resulted in cost saving of SGD 20,000 per annum of training budget• Received exemplar HoD Award-Team Category for orienting all the employees on company's values by creating an overall training roadmap, tailoring curriculum as per regional needs and facilitating train-the-trainer session for business trainers and HR business partners• Optimised Learning & Development budget of SGD 480,000/annum focusing on virtual classroom webinars, self-paced learning programs and byte sized e-learnings videos in partnership with functional training teams & external vendors • Collaborated with senior management to develop and implement succession plans for critical roles which led to 36% of identified successors integrating successfully in critical roles in 2021 • Release Individual Development plans for 2 consecutive cycles to promote continuous and self-learning culture in the organisation• Enabled managers to facilitate developmental discussions their teams so that they effectively co-partner in their learning journeys which resulted in increase of learner’s engagement scores by 40%• Supported company DEI initiative by conducting workshops for managers on ‘unconscious bias’ and ‘D&I in virtual workplace’ which increased awareness and inclusivity among teams and let to 2% delta shift in women hiring.• Collaborated with senior management to develop and implement succession plans for critical roles which led to 36% of identified successors integrating successfully in critical roles in 2021• Rolled out Agile initiatives and trainings.

Joined as Retail Leadership Trainee in 2016 and was promoted twice in 3 years • Led learning and development across 21 Hypermarkets and 559 Supermarkets with coverage across FMCG, Fashion & apparel, Liquor & Consumer Staples products • Partnered with functional heads to identify learning needs of all employees by creating a skill assessment matrix for the entire organization which was used to develop tailored training programs • Partnered with business leaders to develop structured learning journeys for high potential talent including sales associates, managers, and store business heads to elevate their functional & behavioural competencies • Responsible for Leadership coaching as part of their development to expand their individual capacity• Led succession planning initiative by designing a leadership development program for high performing department and store business managers to take up larger roles• Collaborated with company’s #1 business unit’s head to create a training program to impart functional and customer service training to sales managers. • Partnered with Aditya Birla Centre of Excellence to design functional knowledge training for employees through self-learning byte size videos and learning modules on Liquor, Fashion & Apparel and FMCG business units • Liaised with business heads to develop a new hire onboarding program for sales associates to increase engagement and integrate them into company culture. The training reduced attrition of new sales associates by 10% • Managed digital learning initiative by creating easily accessible short learning videos for all employees and monitoring their learning progress by tracking attendance, feedback, and evaluation to ensure maximum impact

Responsible for creating on-boarding program for New Hire Training and Development and ensure engagement and retention of new hires

I worked on File Audit, Recruitment process, Exit Interviews, and FNF. Supported employee engagement activities by creating communication campaigns and capturing employee experience.