Shweta Govil Singh has joined Shriram Farm Solutions, a unit of DCM Shriram, as chief human resources officer. She brings more than two decades of experience across consulting, FMCG, banking, analytics and talent strategy.
In her new role, Govil Singh will lead the HR function for the business, which marks a move from a global talent and professional development mandate at McKinsey to a broader business HR leadership role.
She most recently spent more than 14 years with McKinsey & Company, where she held a series of roles spanning HR, talent acquisition, professional development and talent strategy.
Before joining Shriram Farm Solutions, she served as professional fevelopment lead for the Asia Pacific Banking and Insurance Practice at McKinsey. Thisj role saw her working with practice leaders on career pathways, leadership development, succession planning and capability building for senior consulting talent across APAC.
Alongside this mandate, she continued to lead global talent strategy for McKinsey’s Banking and Insurance domain under its Global Capability Centre (GCC), working with talent spread across more than 20 geographies.
Earlier, as global professional development – talent business partner for Banking & Insurance, Govil Singh managed the talent lifecycle for a globally distributed cohort. She partnered with senior stakeholders on leadership development, succession and capability growth.
Her McKinsey career also included a stint as head – India recruiting for the firm’s GCC and McKinsey Analytics Asia talent- acquisition lead. She led recruitment across multiple practices and markets, including Southeast Asia, Japan and Australia, while supporting the scaling of India’s advanced analytics capabilities.
She joined McKinsey in 2012 as an HR specialist, working across talent acquisition, compensation, HR transformation, policy, employee relations and people operations. During this period, she was involved in scaling the India Client Capability Network and introducing initiatives around employee experience, inclusion and HR processes.
Before McKinsey, Govil Singh was senior manager – human resources at FieldFresh Foods, where she led talent development and engagement while also serving as an HR business partner to commercial and sales functions. Her responsibilities included critical talent identification, rewards, sales incentive design, competency frameworks and employee engagement.
She has also worked with Cholamandalam DBS Finance as regional manager – HR for North and East India, managing HR strategy for multiple business lines and supporting a workforce of more than 400 on-roll and 700 off-roll employees.
Her earlier career includes HR roles at Onicra Credit Rating Agency, as well as stints with Aviva India and Tata Finance.
Govil Singh holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management from XLRI Jamshedpur.
Her move to Shriram Farm Solutions marks a transition from a largely talent- and leadership-focused global role into the CHRO seat of a business, bringing together her experience in talent strategy, leadership development, HR partnering and organisational transformation.
