We're YALLO Retail. We help global retailers build world-class teams to deliver their digital transformation ambitions.

Covering all retail sub-verticals, we work with retailers across the globe to understand their business and customers, their pain points, and planned transformations, translating those into delivery and talent strategy definitions, and subsequently helping our clients in talent acquisition, and ultimately talent retention and advocacy.

YALLO Retail offers talent recruitment services and strategic consultancy, providing a one-stop shop across the RetailTech spectrum to help deliver our client's digital transformation roadmaps.

Business disciplines - Retail & Ecommerce, CX & Marketing, Logistics & Supply Chain, Finance, HR & Procurement
Application disciplines - Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Blue Yonder, Salesforce
Technology disciplines - Software Engineering, Data Analytics, Cloud & Infrastructure, Agile & DevOps, Integration & Middleware, Security & Risk, QA & Testing
Management disciplines - Strategy & Architecture, Change & Transformation, Executive Hiring

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Founder's vision and promise

As a rapid growth Retailer, your business goals and objectives don’t always match your budgets or in-house resources. YALLO Retail offers a niche service — providing as needed and on-demand senior technology consultancy — providing direction to your in-house teams or director-managed technology functions and getting the most out of your IT budgets and possible software vendor relationships.

Consider YALLO your virtual technology department, providing you agile senior strategic consultancy that’s completely flexible and tailored to your needs. The bonus? You get strategic technology insights without having to hire a tech director plus the multi-disciplined delivery team to make it a reality.

"The fierce competition for Retail talent, and the rising Tech complexity, is slowing down every retailer. It's a constant struggle to meet business's ever rising expectations. I've been on your side and have felt the pain — that's the main driver for me to set up YALLO Retail. You can rely on our recruitment and consultancy services, and I guarantee your 100% satisfaction... IT'S TIME TO CHANGE!"

Virtual CTO services

Hire Best & Brightest retail talent, just the right fit:

Does the below sound like you?

Are you a global retailer and tired of recruiters who don’t understand your business?
Frustrated with reps who struggle to match candidates’ skills with your requirements?
Tired of dealing with multiple agencies to find talent across different job skills?

You need YALLO Retail

We're led and run by ex-Retail industry veterans: we understand your business drivers and pain points
A one-stop shop for all your RetailTech talent needs across Business, Apps, Technology & Management disciplines
Our recruiters are trained “retail-business-technologists”: we carefully vet every candidate and ensure quality
Flexible, responsive, and fully invested in you: our approach is not transactional, its relational

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Our milestones

Key achievements

2022
2021
2020

Crossed 20K LinkedIn Followers

We strive our best to share latest and most relevant content for our LinkedIn company page followers. Our RetailTech community on Linkedin kept responding. It was towards end of 2022 when our page follower's count cross 20,000 mark! We have high ambitions to continue sharing, caring and nurturing our RetailTech community, and thus bringing them more closer together.

Dubai Office Launched

Given its rapid growth, Middle East is a strategic market for YALLO Retail. We opened our Dubai office in 2021 (as Skill Magnet back then) after which there has been no looking back. Investments in Retail sector is booming in the region which is fuelled by the number of tourists it attracts, especially the city of Dubai which is host to world's several wonders! We partnered with many large retailers and are supporting them in their talent needs to fulfil their digital transformation ambitions.

Survived The Pandemic

As crazy as it may sound, but we all know what the Corona pandemic did to many startups and small businesses. YALLO Retail (Skill Magnet back then) not only survived but we thrived during this period. Although the business was reduced across the permanent and contract hirings, but we were never shown the door - all thanks to our strong client relationships! During this phase, we expanded our candidate and client outreach as well as managed to attract some great talent into our teams and thus laying a strong foundation for future growth.