PepsiCo has appointed Nidhima M as senior director HR – India, Bangladesh and Nepal, effective July 2026. She will partner with the leadership team to build a future-ready Foods and Beverage business across the three markets.
Nidhima brings close to two decades of HR experience spanning people strategy, organisational transformation, talent management, rewards, inclusion, mergers and acquisitions and large-scale change programmes.
She joins PepsiCo from Amazon, where she served as senior manager HR, people partner for the Amazon Stores Customer Experience teams from August 2022 to July 2026. Based in Gurugram, she led the People function for teams across Amazon centres in Delhi, Pune, Chandigarh and Hyderabad. Her mandate included organisation design, workforce transformation and integration initiatives.
During her Amazon stint, Nidhima also led HR for the integration of Frontizo following its acquisition by Amazon and worked on technology-led workforce initiatives, including the launch of the Amazon India FlexUp policy across six states.
Before Amazon, she spent four months as head-HR – India at Revolut, from May to August 2022. She joined during the fintech company’s preparations for its India launch, where she worked on establishing the People function, developing policies and processes, shaping the India leadership structure and supporting executive appointments.
Prior to Revolut, Nidhima spent nearly six years with Unilever. From May 2019 to April 2022, she was global HR director – mergers and acquisitions, finance and corporate teams, based in London. She led people strategy for global M&A and corporate finance teams and worked on organisation design, transformation, M&A integration and separation.
Earlier, between July 2016 and May 2019, she was global HR business partner – technology and India HR lead for Unilever Technology and Operations. During this period, she helped set up and scale Unilever’s Technology, Analytics and Operations centre in India, while leading initiatives around future skills, talent, diversity and inclusion and internal talent mobility.
Nidhima’s career also includes more than five years with HSBC, where she held several HR leadership roles between 2007 and 2016. She was SVP and India lead, HR – global banking & markets and private banking from May 2015 to July 2016, following roles as VP, regional HR lead – North India and VP – talent management & strategic resourcing.
She began her HSBC career as AVP – rewards & job evaluation in May 2007, before moving into an HR business partnering role for Retail Banking and Collections in 2009.
An alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur, she also holds a BTech in Electronics & Communication from Punjab Technical University.
