Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, June 2026 — L’Oréal India has elevated Riti Garg as Head – Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding, India, entrusting her with the responsibility of leading the company’s talent acquisition strategy and strengthening its employer brand as it continues to build future-ready capabilities across one of the world’s leading beauty organizations.
Prior to this elevation, Garg served as HR Business Partner – Luxury and Dermatological Beauty at L’Oréal for nearly three years. In this role, she partnered closely with business leaders to drive talent strategy, organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, workforce planning, and employee engagement across the company’s Luxury and Dermatological Beauty divisions, contributing to business growth through strategic people initiatives.
Before joining L’Oréal, she was Head – Talent Acquisition and Talent Management at Gilbarco Veeder-Root, where she led enterprise talent acquisition, leadership development, talent management, succession planning, and organizational capability-building initiatives, helping strengthen the company’s leadership pipeline.
Earlier, Garg served as Assistant Vice President – Talent & Learning at Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. (ABFRL), where she led the organization’s talent and learning agenda while driving key organizational development initiatives. She played an important role in designing learning frameworks, leadership development programs, and capability-building interventions that supported business transformation.
Prior to ABFRL, she spent nearly four years with Pantaloons, progressing from Group Manager HR to General Manager HR. During her tenure, she led talent management, learning and development, performance management, and talent acquisition across both corporate and retail operations, strengthening HR practices for one of India’s leading fashion retailers.
Earlier in her career, Garg worked as HR Advisor at Nomura, supporting the Risk Management function across a workforce of nearly 400 employees. Before that, she held multiple HR leadership roles at Nestlé India, serving as Sales HR Business Partner – Northern India Region, Corporate HR Business Partner, and Manager – Corporate Learning & Training, where she gained extensive experience across sales HR, corporate HR partnering, learning, leadership development, and people operations.
She began her HR leadership journey with Biocon as Manager – Compensation, Performance Management & Organizational Effectiveness, where she led compensation reviews, performance management cycles, career development initiatives, salary restructuring, and employee engagement programs.
An alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur, where she completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations (PGD PM&IR), Riti Garg brings over 17 years of diverse HR leadership experience spanning talent acquisition, employer branding, talent management, leadership development, learning, organizational development, compensation, performance management, HR business partnering, and employee engagement across the FMCG, beauty, retail, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors.
Her elevation reflects L’Oréal India’s continued investment in building a world-class talent ecosystem while strengthening its employer brand to support future growth and innovation.
About L’Oréal
L’Oréal is the world’s largest beauty company, operating across more than 150 countries with a workforce of over 90,000 employees. Its portfolio includes 37 international brands across the Luxury, Consumer Products, Dermatological Beauty, and Professional Products divisions, featuring globally renowned brands such as Lancôme, Maybelline New York, L’Oréal Paris, Garnier, Kiehl’s, Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, Prada Beauty, Vichy, La Roche-Posay, Kérastase, Redken, and many more. For over a century, L’Oréal has remained committed to creating innovative beauty products that meet the diverse needs of consumers worldwide while advancing sustainability, science, and inclusive growth.
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