Adhham Farook

I excel in a challenging and dynamic work environment giving my best effort to reach organizational goals by improving and learning new technologies as by best while developing both personally and professionally in the industry. driven through experience and specialization, I have excellent interpersonal, communication, teambuilding and leadership skills. I excel in onboarding the right personnel with the corresponding skill and attitude on time. I create positive teams and environment.

Key Skills

Communications To Executive Leadership
Cross-Cultural Leadership
Training, Coaching & Mentoring
Team Building and leading
Strategic planning and decision making
Recruiting the required talent

Professional Experience

Jul 2018
Present
Senior Manager – Talent sourcing & Acquisition
Startek Services Lanka (Pvt) Ltd Colombo, LK
A multinational organization providing Business Process outsourcing, established in 13 countries.
 
Talent sourcing & Acquisition 
 
·         Developing and administering human resources plans and procedures that relate to company personnel 
·         Planning, organizing, and controlling the activities and strategies of the talent acquisition department 
·         Contributing to the development of HR department goals, objectives, and systems 
·         Re-Engineering the HR model based on organizations goals & objectives when required 
·         Implementing and revising a company’s compensation program 
·         Creating and revising job descriptions to boost work force efficiency & productivity 
·         Developing, analyzing, and updating the company’s salary budget 
·         Developing, revising, and recommending personnel policies and procedures 
·         Performing benefits administration 
·         Overseeing recruitment efforts for all personnel, including writing and placing job ads 
·         Overseeing exit interviews 
·         Maintaining company directory and other organizational charts 
·         Recommending new policies, approaches, and procedures relating to recruitment & selection 
·         Identify prospective candidates using a variety of channels 
  • Responsible for overall recruitment and selection of agent and non-agent staff.
  • Responsible for identifying manpower requirements of various departments.
  • Accountable for meeting all staffing numbers as per SLAs. 
  • Assists in the identification of recruiting issues and implement solutions.
  • Review and monitor recruitment strategy, vacancies on a periodic basis.
  • Effective management  of  OTH & CPH 
·         Identify prospective candidates using a variety of channels ·         Review market anchor on compensation & benefits ·        
 Introduce attractive  internal referral schemes to meet monthly recruitment numbers   
 
Staff Reporting    :  04 Talent acquisition specialists & 01 AM talent sourcing 
Jul 2016
Present
Manager – Training Delivery & Development
Startek Services Lanka (Pvt) Ltd Colombo, LK
 
Training & Development; 
 
·         Manage effective end-to-end  training delivery of  1200 + employees  across  all  business 
·         Effective skill gap identification using TNI & DIF  methodology 
·          identify training and development needs within an organisation through job analysis, appraisal schemes and regular consultation with business managers and human resources departments 
·         Design and expand training and development program/s based on the needs of the organisation and the individual 
·         Plan the implementation and facilitation of activities and events, budget spending, material production and distribution, and other resources to ensure that operations are managed within authorized budgets. 
·         Monitor &  review performance of process trainers for effective training function 
·         Organize & manage cross functional meetings with numerous  linked department for effectiveness of training delivery 
·         Analyze the feedback based net promoter score after training delivery 
·         Encourage effective new initiatives from process trainers & implement initiatives that could add value for training delivery 
·         Conduct soft skill training session for required employees based on evaluation 
·         Design curriculum based on competency mapping 
·         Develop online training modules for critical areas of gap bridging 
·         Evaluate training delivery based on Kirkpatrick 04 stage model   
·         Effective training budget management 
  • Manage Training team and daily Training activities- Attendance, Utilization, Dashboards
  • Closely work with Training Leader in implementing New Training methodologies, principles for improved Training effectiveness and Business improvement.
  • Conduct interviews to screen right skill set for the team.
  • Develop classroom agenda, timelines and content flow as necessary to deliver effective training to participants.
  • Review existing training materials and make revisions, as necessary, as per Instructional design.
  • Provide structured Feedback, counselling and guidance for New Hires and Existing Trainers in the process.
  • Generate training reports
  • Conduct Training Need Identification exercise and a follow up training plan on a monthly basis
  • Ensure JKQ’s are conducted on the floor on a fortnightly basis
  • Develop learning plan for bottom performers of the process and track improvement-Monthly
  • To contribute towards building an excellent training delivery team.
   Staff Reporting    : 02 AM Training, 20 Trainers  
Jan 2015
Jun 2016
Manager – HR /Learning & Development
Samsung India Electronics (Pvt) Ltd – Sri Lanka Colombo, LK
 
Human Resources; 
 
·         Administration of GHRP (HRIS) and cross audit on details uploaded. 
·         Ensure Timely Payments of Salaries & Bonuses within the agreed date to city bank 
·         Maintains the work structure by updating job requirements and job descriptions for all positions. 
·         Maintains management guidelines by preparing, updating, and recommending human resource policies and procedures. 
·         Maintains historical human resource records by designing a filing and retrieval system; keeping past and current records. 
 
 
 
Sourcing; 
 
·         Managing Recruitment Agencies & Headhunters to make sure talent pipeline is enabled  , 
·         Strengthen Industry HR professional Networking by introducing industry best practices , 
·         Managing Recruitments process and exits, Corrective actions based on exit feedback. 
 
Performance Management; 
 
·         Timely implementation of 1st & 2nd half performance evaluations 
·         Ensures planning, monitoring, and appraisal of employee work results by training managers to coach and discipline employees; scheduling management conferences with employees; hearing and resolving employee grievances; counseling employees and supervisors. 
·         Create awareness among employees about competency Metrix of the organization 
 
Training & Development; 
·          Educating staff members on Samsung policies & procedures (existing and forthcoming policies & procedures)      
·         Conduct Organization health check annually 
·         Conduct Training need identification , skill gap identification and schedule training if diagnosed as training requirement 
·         Based on company requirements external trainings to be arranged,                                                               
·         Cater training needs based on the Training Need Identification         
·          Conduct product training for partner staff, SEC RM/DM & Service center staffbased on request 
·         Conduct soft skills trainings to customer & partner interaction staff for effective closure of sales. 
·         Scheduling & supervising of  field training 
  • Effective training budget management 
·         Facilitate overseas training for staff when required ·         Conduction of new staff orientation program General Affaires; ·         Supervision of branch admiration related function ·         Coordination with ministry of commerce & immigration department to obtain /renew visas of expects ·         Vendor Management, Managing Events, Overseas Travel arrangements, Office premises management, Security & Safety issues of staff & office premises  Staff Reporting    : 01 administration & GA executive, 01 Payroll management executive & 03 Field training executives 
Sep 2012
Oct 2015
Training & Prepaid Program Manager
Bharthi Airtel Lanka (Pvt) Limited Colombo, LK
 
Program Management 
  • Effective partner management 
  • Mainly managing all prepaid contact center related operations.
  • Overlooking other call center verticals such as postpaid, dealer help line, Roaming call center and Ect.
  • Ensuring all KPI’s met and delivered based on the service level agreement 
  • Ensuring all inbound employees trained and well equipped to cater call volumes flow in to Prepaid Contact Center and other verticals. 
  • Effective route cause analysis (RCA) to manage alike complains trends in future.
  •  Effectively managing user id request , creations and delivery based on ID creation policy
  • Ensuring all customer escalation done to other department resolved within the given Turnaround Time (TAT).
  • Monitoring all up-selling and cross- selling related activity from partner end providing incentives in a timely manner 
  • Ensuring all new product release communicated to the contact center team leaders and agents and maintains staff readiness.
  • Benchmarking all prepaid processes, prepaid products & contact center call scripts in a monthly basis.
  • Analyzing daily call patents based on query ,request & complaints  and make proactive decisions 
  • Agent baseline activity to be carried out to maintain 95% call quality 
  • Analyzing and approving all Prepaid package changes via emails 
  • Advising on fatal errors based on listening to the recorded calls 
 Training Management  
  • Effective training budget management 
  • Workforce gap analysis 
  • Drilldown on RCA 
  • Training  scheduling 
  • Partner training team management 
  • DIF Training Identification 
  • Motivational & soft skill training conduction 
  • TNI & DIF training identification of customer service (customer service department & customer experience points)
  • Training related coordination with numerous liked activities
  • Preparing the job knowledge quiz for all touch point related staff 
  • Preparation of initial training plans(ITP) &  Performance Improvement Plans(PIP)
  • Facilitating training on soft skill parameters 
  • Product & services training for sales force 
  Staff Reporting    : 01 Operation Manager, 06 Team Leaders & 04 Knowledge and escalation Team Leaders   
Feb 2006
Sep 2012
Senior Trainer – Human Resources Development
Lanka Bell Limited Colombo, LK
 
Job Description: 
 
·         Coordinate with Divisional Managers and senior supervisors and discuss training schedules and programs. 
·         Attend team leader and supervisor meetings to discuss in issues related to training and areas of personal development. 
·         Coordinate with audit department to finalize policies and processes for implementation. 
·         Existing Staff Training for Lanka Bell / Apollo / SLIC staff in areas of development. 
·         New Recruit Training with regard to Products, policies & Systems (Lanka Bell  Group) 
·      New Recruits Evaluations for Lanka Bell & Apollo agents to monitor training performance and evaluate suitability for deploying in work areas. 
·      Conduct Role Plays for both new & existing staff members to improve customer handling efficiency and avoid errors in communication. 
·   Conducting training for DCSL & Group 
·   Conduct Presentations both new & existing staff members assisting them to overcome fear in customer interaction and challenge diverse questioning by customers. 
·   Conduction of Month end Evaluations for 450 Customer care staff (Front Line staff, Cashiering Staff & BPO Staff) to identify and ascertain knowledge levels and conduct reviews for staff performance below 80%. 
·         Correction of Monthly Evaluation Papers and distribute to staff for them to identify the errors made and avoid the repetition. 
·         Preparation of training based on Training Need Analysis 
·         Prepare training reports.  
·         Coordinate & Schedule training Programs for customer care and other departments. 
·         Preparing & Evaluating Cluster post evaluations for front line staff, cashiers & supervisors. 
  • Ensure proactive identification of training needs and design and deliver appropriate training interventions on a timely basis.
  • Conducting soft skill training on customer handling skills ,selling &  motivation 
  • Ensure effective management of the training budget 
  • Ensure availability of required resources in the training location
  • Coordinating with external trainers / Training consultancies regarding training needs within the organization 
  • Conduction of Interview
  • Contributing to workforce recruitment for Lanka Bell & its subsidiaries 
  • In-Charge of internship training  programs 
  • Central point for communications with regard to new product launch, process changes , policy changes & new updates for all staff 
  • Editor of Lanka Bell e-News Letter
  • Monitoring employees’ performance based on their categories (i.e. Sales Executives, Collection Executives, CCR cum Cashier, etc,) & take necessary corrective action to improve them.
 Staff Reporting    : 07 Regional Trainers    
Dec 2003
Dec 2005
Trainer
Emirates Telecommunication Group Company PJSC Abu Dhabi Island And Internal Islands City, AE
Training Customer care executives and developing training need analysis.
Mar 2001
Sep 2002
Customer Service Executive
Hutchison Telecom – Sri Lanka Colombo District, LK
 
  •  Attending to customer queries & complaints 
  • Solving of customer problems & timely follow up 
  • Participation for customer care camps & promotions 
 

Education

Apr 2014
Aug 2015
Masters in Business Management in Australian Institute of Business
Australian Institute of Business
Apr 2013
Apr 2014
Post Graduate Diploma in Australian Institute of Business
Australian Institute of Business
Jan 2011
Feb 2012
 National Diploma in Training & Development in Institute of Personnel Management- Colombo
Institute of Personnel Management- Colombo

Certifications

2014
Employee of the Year
Samsung Electronic- Country Office

Achievements

2018
Achievement of recruitment
Meeting the required capacity of recruitment within three months and facilitated the smooth functioning of operations. 

Quote

"Be Someone, someday, somewhere but not somehow."

Adhham Farook

Hobbies & Interests

  • Traveling
  • Cycling
  • Reading News papers

Languages

English
(Fluent)
Tamil
(Native)
Sinhalese
(Native)

Career Aspiration

1. To climb the next strata of the managerial hierarchy. 2. To be within the top 10 motivational speaker in Asia. 3. To be a good leader , Manager & a change agent 4. To identify & develop new leaders

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