HUL picks BP Biddappa as HR chief, Anuradha Razdan to take up global role

In his role, Biddappa will lead the people's agenda for South Asia as well as drive the transformation interventions from a business, organisation, and sustainability perspective.

BP Biddappa will join the Hindustan Unilever’s Management Committee as executive director, human resources and chief people, transformation and sustainability officer for South Asia.

Biddappa will also join the HUL board as a whole-time director, subject to shareholder approval, the company said in a statement.

In his role, Biddappa will lead the people's agenda for South Asia as well as drive the transformation interventions from a business, organisation, and sustainability perspective.

Anuradha Razdan, executive director of human resources at HUL and chief HR officer for South Asia, will be appointed to a global role as the chief reward and organisation development officer for Unilever. This change will be effective June 1, 2024.

Biddappa is the chief HR officer for Global Home Care and head of Global Employee Relations for Unilever. He started his over three-decade-long career in Unilever with a factory stint in HUL and then moved on to undertake a variety of roles, from leadership development to business partnering, across several Unilever businesses and led HR for Unilever in Maghreb, Bangladesh, and India.

Over the last five years, Biddappa has led two critical expertise functions for Unilever globally – organisation development and people analytics and global employee relations. He also helped set up and build the health and wellbeing business for Unilever as well as the Unilever Professionals business, the statement said.

“An accomplished HR leader with over three decades of experience, Biddappa comes with immense knowledge of transformation and organisational development. I am glad to welcome him to the HUL leadership and I am confident that his able guidance and leadership will help transform the business to progress further on our future-fit agenda,” said Rohit Jawa, CEO and managing director of HUL.