Clarimond Lubigan, CSSGB

- Managed a team of 12 talent acquisition professionals, overseeing the Asia Pacific region (10 countries, 11 entities), across all functions in Human Pharma and Animal Health. - Successful transition of Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore recruitment operations from RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) set up to in-house. - Background check process revamp and stream-wide clean-up of cases, involving all hires for the past 3 years, resulting to zero backlogs - in a span of 6 months, upon securing the position. - Standardized pre-boarding process for India, resulting to 100% process compliance. Salary analysis process transition from local HR to Recruitment which resulted to 48-hr cut in job offer cycle SLA. - Improved candidate and HM survey result across the region: From >10% complaints to consistent <10%, which is aligned with the global recruitment SLA. - Spearheaded the implementation of Global Recruiting Methods in 10 countries across Asia Pacific, in partnership with different centers, global COEs and regional HRBPs. - Co-led the center’s mentoring program and served as the Committee Head for the center’s leaders’ dialogue sessions

- Re-built the talent acquisition team and spearheaded the automation of the TA hiring process via Workday. - Partnered with business heads and HRBPs in the US and India to craft recruitment strategies that will support the center in accommodating additional services. - Created and implemented well-defined hiring SLAs from scratch to meet deliverables and improve stakeholder experience - Increased referral success rate from 14% to 25%. Crafted a new policy, enhancing the referral bonus across job grades. - Introduced TA newsletter which helped in promoting employee success stories and engagement in TA activities. - Spearheaded the 1st ever DE&I internship program at Thomson Reuters, giving opportunities to students coming from the underrepresented groups (PWD and low-socio economic status groups) - Worked with the global HRBPs in revisiting the job grades and re-aligning each position to the appropriate job level based on job specifics and business expectations. - Headcount growth from 603 to 947 in 2021

- Streamlined the hiring process for Japan and South Korea while partnering closely with regional heads to ensure process adherence and 100% compliance on hiring policies. - 1st non-Japanese Talent Acquisition Partner who was entrusted to manage Japan Recruitment Operations. - Implemented agency usage threshold policy in Japan which resulted to 40% savings in the overall recruitment budget. - Worked heavily with the tax and accounting function in Sydney in building their customer support team. - Created the whole content for the LinkedIn Life APAC section under Thomson Reuters’ global LinkedIn page. - Created Global E-learning materials focusing on social media hiring. - Part of the global team that re-designed and implemented the new version of Workday, tailor-fitted in making the recruitment process more efficient. - Subject matter expert in hiring for roles in Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore.