Leandro Cartelli

Responsible for a high-performing recruitment team of 15 professionals focused on delivering top global talent contributing to our client's success, and optimize operations for increased profitability and sustainable growth for Athyna.

Main achievements:

• Restructured team to execute based on specialization, accomplishing a +15% increase in productivity.
• Achieved a 100% increase in closed positions in the first 6 months.
• Implemented first ever SLAs, metrics and KPIs for the department, aiming to become a data-driven function.
• Transitioned the full recruitment process to our ATS streamlining operations, implementing multiple automations (ie. candidate communications), process standardization and a pipeline management framework.
• Launched a Capability Development Program for recruiters delivering +100 hours of training.

Led the Talent Acquisition department in PedidosYa, defining the strategic direction for the department and the delivery of our hiring plans, guiding a team of +60 highly talented professionals, and collaborating closely with our senior leadership to attract and onboard the most diverse and talented individuals to support the success of the business.

Main achievements:

• Delivered +2.000 new hires per year, driving the hyper-growth of the company from 2.000 to 6.000 employees in 2 years, and supporting the expansion to 8 new countries.
• Reduced time to hire across all talent segments from an average of ~60 days to ~40 days.
• Developed and executed the strategy to hire +800 people in six months for the launch of +100 stores to enable the launch of a new retail vertical for the company.
• Re-designed the end to end recruiting process, implementing a new competency assessment framework model and trained over 1.000 business leaders, and new automations saving over 4,000 hours.
• Achieved and sustained a +70 NPS point of candidate experience.
• Implemented the first ever D&I strategy for the company, improving our hiring gender mix by 10% the 1st year.

Accountable for driving streamlined Talent Acquisition Operations at a global scale for over 10 regional brands and +500 Talent Acquisition professionals, from systems and data, to global attraction programs (employee referrals, onboarding, etc.).

Main achievements:

• Led the global TA technology agenda, with a key focus on the implementation of a new ATS (SmartRecruiters).
• Released a global candidate experience tool (TalentHub) to consistently assess it across all countries and brands.
• Designed a global capability development program for Talent Acquisition.
• Launched an advocacy program and overhaul of the support portal, achieving a 50% reduction in system and process related queries/requests from all brands.

Managed Talent Acquisition delivery and initiatives (from workforce planning to onboarding) across Latin America, collaborating with local and global stakeholders ensuring alignment with business goals, and developing a high-performing team of 30 TA professionals.

Main achievements:

• Delivered over 600 hires per year across 8 countries, achieving and sustaining both Hiring Manager and Candidate NPS of +65 points.
• Reduced time to hire across all talent segments from an average of ~46 days to ~32 days.
• Successfully transitioned Mexico recruitment operations from local team to shared services in Buenos Aires, representing over 200 hires per year with a 20% team reduction.
• Implemented Internal Mobility Program driving a 15% increase of positions filled with internal talent.

Built & led the transformation of TA operations for Accenture North America, managing a team of+60 specialized recruiters and ensuring delivery of high-quality talent for the business.

Main achievements:

• Designed and drove a change management program enabling the education and buy-in of the entire NA recruiting organization (+300 recruiters).
• Recruited, hired and trained a team of over 60 professionals in less than 3 months.
• Led the transition of all sourcing and multiple verticals end to end process from North America to Argentina, as well as the delivery.

Responsible for developing and driving Accenture’s talent attraction strategy, with a core focus on Employee Referrals, Social Media and Job Boards, leading large global projects aimed to increase channel results and to position Accenture´s Recruiting Organization as one of the most innovative in this space.

Main achievements:

• Managed a budget of over U$S 1,000,000 dedicated to implementing new sourcing solutions.
• Led negotiations with Accenture´s Social Media and Job-board providers, achieving savings for U$S 250,000 per year.
• Built a global site serving as the one-stop-shop for everything Sourcing at Accenture, creating a sourcing solutions repository for recruiters and a global online community for enablement and best practice sharing.

Led Accenture´s Employee Referral Program, defining it´s vision and creating a comprehensive strategy for this channel, managing a budget of U$S 500.000 aimed to drive continued innovation and lead the program ́s largest projects.

Main achievements:

• Designed and implemented a new and innovative Employee Referral Program platform patented in the United States (D14-182/02710-90PR-US).
• Launched the first ever global referral campaign, increasing by 25% the number of joiners with emerging technology skills.
• Implemented the first ever Executive Referral Process, increasing by 20% hires through referrals with yearly savings of U$S 2,5M.

Responsible for the shared services team (7 FTEs) that provided recruitment support to the Netherlands, contributing significantly to deliver on local recruitment targets and adding value to local operations and processes.