Rasika Malhotra has been named human resources (HR) director for India, succeeding Roshni Wadhwa, who has been promoted to HR transformation director – South Asia Pacific, Middle East, and North Africa (SAPMENA).
Malhotra’s new responsibilities will include developing capabilities, a culture of enablement, collaboration, and HR excellence to help L’Oréal India become a future-ready organisation.
Malhotra has over two decades of diverse experience in manufacturing, oil and gas, consumer products, FMCG, B2B, and technology across international geographies and domains.
She has a strong background in business partnering and strategy, organisational development, talent management, change management, HR transformation, cultural integration, and diversity and inclusion.
“I am excited and energised to join a team of strong and committed people, drive culture as a competitive advantage, and enable the organisation to achieve our growth ambition by unlocking the true potential of our people and creating beauty that moves the world,” Malhotra said.
Wadhwa’s new responsibilities include driving change and ensuring governance for all of L’Oréal’s HR transformation programmes in SAPMENA.
Wadhwa joined L’Oréal in July 2013 as an HR business partner for the consumer products division in India. She later relocated to Singapore in 2015 as L’Oréal’s HR director in Singapore, before returning to India in February 2017 as L’Oréal’s HR director in India.
In the past six years, Wadhwa has been instrumental in creating and executing country HR strategy, impacting business growth, digital and culture transformation, and exceptional work done on COVID reach-out programmes.
She will lead the change leads and workstream leaders in the SAPMENA zone and countries as the HR transformation director – SAPMENA, and she will work closely with stakeholders. She will also be in charge of implementing our new HR excellence centre model across all SAPMENA COEs.
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“With the transformation in business and work culture, we have an ambitious plan to transform how we engage with our people within the organisation and strengthen our HR excellence, people-centricity, and managerial effectiveness – all backed by strong technology. I am excited to take on this new role and develop a strong change agenda for HR practices across all SAPMENA countries. I am delighted to welcome Rasika to L’Oréal and pass on the baton to her. “I am confident that she will uphold this commitment in India by keeping our people at the centre of everything we do,” Wadhwa said.
