Avantika Tripathi has moved from Unilever to Lotus Herbals as head of human resources.
Armed with an MBA in Human Resource Development, Avantika Tripathi began her professional journey as HR officer with Radiohms Agencies (Nippo Batteries), in January of 2010.
A little over a year later, she switched to Bisleri International where she spent over a decade. She entered the organisation as a human resource executive, in April of 2011. A year later, she was promoted to assistant manager-HR. Two years into this role, she was elevated yet again, to manager HR and IR, handling recruitment, performance management, HR operations, employee engagement and talent management for Greater Delhi area. Another promotion in 2017 made her regional manager-HR, North India. For the next over four years, she handled change management and diversity and inclusion.
United Breweries roped her in for the role of unit HR head-HRBP in February of 2022. This role saw her dabbling in planning, stakeholder management, talent acquisition, PMS, sales HR and training among other things.
It was in December of 2023 that she joined Unilever as unit HR manager, working out of Gandhidham, Gujarat.
Over a year into this role, she was promoted to country supply chain HRBP and ER lead for ice cream BU.
Now, in her latest role at Lotus Herbals, the natural cosmetics company, she will be tasked with leading the people strategy, primarily focussing on inclusive growth, digital?led HR practices, positive culture building, and creating a future?ready organisation.