Saurabh Chaudhuri has joined Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL) as its new global HR Centre of Excellence (CoE), talent, rewards and people processes, across all GCPL geographies.
Prior to this, Chaudhuri was associated with udaan, a B2B e-Commerce startup, as its head-HR, managing human resources across a diverse range of categories. His role involved overseeing personnel matters across various sectors, ensuring effective staffing, talent management, and organisational development strategies are in place to support udaan’s dynamic businsess model and facilitate its growth in both B2B and B2C segments.
An alumnus of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and with over 14 years of combined expertise, Chaudhuri has worked with Aditya Birla Group, Hindustan Unilever, Bennett Coleman, Nokia, Siemens and Unitech.
His longest stint was with the Aditya Birla Group where he started as a programme director at the Group’s Global Centre for Leadership Learning-Gyanodaya, in the year 2010. In 2012, he was elevated to the role of manager-HR business partner, managing the company’s domestic textiles, acrylic fibre and overseas spinning businesses, across India and South-East Asia.
In the year 2015, he was elevated to the role of assistant general manager-business HR CoE for rewards. In this capacity, he managed rewards and benefits, performance, manpower planning, job analysis and evaluation and HR tech for 1100 managers and expatriates, across three businesses. He was responsible for 10 manufacturing units spread across five countries (India, Thailand, Indonesia, Egypt and Philippines).
In the year 2016, he became the head-human resources, at the company’s new branch-Aditya Birla Nuvo. In 2017, he moved to Grasim Industries, leading employee relations for the textiles sector.
His diverse experience and ability to work with agility and lead large global teams will stand him in good stead in his new role at Godrej Consumer Products.
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Godrej is in safe hands now.