Poonam Narang

About Poonam Narang

I have about 25 years of experience in Industrial & Employee Relations, Senior Leadership Development & Assessment Methodologies, and Strategic HR Business Partnering; having worked across domains of FMCG, IT, Financial Services, Pharmaceutical and Oil & Gas sectors. At Dr Reddy’s after having led HR for the exciting portfolio of Emerging Markets spread across more than 45 countries; my role has now been expanded to lead HR across Core Delivery components of Manufacturing, R&D as well as the Aurigene businesses. At Shell, the IT Footprint & Sourcing Strategy made me responsible for the set-up of two large organizational entities - Shell’s 4th IT hub in Bangalore, growing it from scratch to strong, the most ambitious ramp up Shell had ever seen, and then setting up the IT Engineering organization globally - responsible for resourcing and capability building across all IT projects in Shell.In my initial years with Shell I have been in HR in Country and HR in Business roles in P&T: Shell’s engineering and R&D powerhouse. As a part of Business Leadership Teams for several P&T businesses, the role involved supporting the Business VPs in defining and executing the people agenda. I have also been the global focal for the BUILD program – framework for identifying and grooming talent into Engineering Managers for the future and played a key role in defining the agenda and scoping the program as it evolved. At Shell I have been part of several global and regional projects like the Discipline Engineering Review, Growing Leadership Strategic Theme, One Resourcing, Footprint and Sourcing – most of which involved defining and implementing large scale change agendas.Prior to joining Shell, I worked with Infosys Technologies and Unilever India. At Infosys, I worked in the areas of Competency frameworks, Assessment and Senior Leadership Learning & Development. At Unilever, I was a part of site leadership teams and led employee relations at three different manufacturing sites cutting across frozen desserts, culinary products and beverages in my 8 year stint.Outside of work, I love reading and Odissi – a classical Indian dance form from the state of Odisha.

Experience

1. Vice President HR, Global Manufacturing

   Dr. Reddy's Laboratories

   Dec 2024 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

Education

• Loreto House

  ICSE

  1977 — 1988

• XLRI Jamshedpur

  PGD PM & IR

  1993 — 1995