Buket Kılıç Yenel

I’m a Senior HR Manager with 10 years of experience in major manufacturing environments, including 5 years in team management. I build data-oriented people strategies across talent management, performance systems, organizational development, and HR analytics—grounded in both HR expertise and an industrial engineering mindset.

At Vestel Electronics, I founded and led a new Talent & Performance Management function from scratch, scaling assessment and talent decisions across ~4,000 white-collar employees. I integrated results into a 9-box potential framework, replaced surface-level reviews with a structured balanced scorecard and competency-based evaluation, and helped drive a 5% increase in high-performer retention. I also owned end-to-end succession planning for 50+ senior leadership roles, ensuring zero gaps in leadership pipeline continuity.

I partner closely with HR analytics teams to embed predictive modeling into workforce planning and performance decisions, supported by my PhD-qualified work. I completed a PhD in Human Resources Analytics by developing a machine learning-based predictive model for employee performance using Weka, and I bring practical analytics rigor to day-to-day HR execution. Alongside this, I’ve delivered enterprise-wide internal training as a certified Transactional Analysis internal trainer and led HR capability building for teams of up to 5 HR professionals.