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Five roles in 7 years: Arshia Singh rises to VP at Tata Consumer Products. Singh's latest elevation puts her in charge of leadership, talent and learning after roles spanning talent management and business HR By HRK News Bureau September 29, 2026 2 Mins Read 408 Views Arshia Singh has moved up to vice president-leadership, talent and learning at Tata Consumer Products, continuing an internal progression that has taken her through five roles in nearly seven years with the company. Singh has held the position since July 2026, according to her LinkedIn profile. In her latest role, she is responsible for leadership development, talent management, learning and organisational capability building. She joined Tata Consumer Products in January 2020 as manager-talent management and learning, with responsibility for the function globally. She was promoted to senior manager in April 2021 and then associate director-talent management and learning in April 2023. Later that year, Singh moved from the specialist talent function into business HR as director-HR for packaged foods and integrated finance. The assignment broadened her experience beyond talent and learning into a business-facing people role. Her latest elevation brings her back to leadership, talent and learning, but at a more senior level and with the additional perspective gained from working directly with the business. Before Tata Consumer Products, Singh spent a year with the Times of India as HR business partner and talent management lead for supply chain. She began her career with WNS Global Services, where she spent more than four years across leadership hiring, HR projects, organisational development and compensation and benefits. One of her early assignments at WNS involved managing a leadership-development programme designed to prepare senior employees for key roles and build leadership from within the organisation. She subsequently worked on global HR projects involving systems implementation, automation and process changes before moving into compensation and benefits. Singh holds an MBA in human resources management from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies and a Bachelor of Engineering in computer science from Panjab University.

Siddharth Sawant joins Tata Consumer Products to lead HR for Ready-to-Drink business. After more than seven years at AB InBev, Sawant moves to Tata Consumer Products with experience spanning commercial teams, breweries and corporate functions By HRK News Bureau September 28, 2026 2 Mins Read 261 Views Siddharth Sawant has joined Tata Consumer Products as director-human resources and head of HR for its Ready-to-Drink business, following more than seven years with AB InBev. Based in Gurugram, Sawant leads the people function for the Ready-to-Drink business. The move keeps him within the beverages industry, while taking him from a career largely built around beer into Tata Consumer Products' wider consumer beverages portfolio. Sawant has been in the role since June 2026, according to his LinkedIn profile. He joined AB InBev in January 2019 as senior manager-people partner for its commercial operations in eastern India. He subsequently expanded his remit to cover commercial teams across the eastern and western regions before moving into a broader role as people lead for corporate functions across India and Southeast Asia. In that assignment, he supported functions including finance, corporate affairs, legal, procurement, technology and analytics, with responsibility for talent development, engagement and organisational transformation. His next move took him closer to manufacturing. As associate director-people, Sawant led the people function across four breweries in the North-West region, including two in Aurangabad and one each in Sonipat and Meerut. His remit covered employee relations across white- and blue-collar workforces, compliance, productivity and capability building for senior supply-chain leaders. He later returned to the corporate side of the business as associate director-people, corporate, leading the people agenda for AB InBev's corporate functions until his move to Tata Consumer Products. Before joining AB InBev, Sawant spent nearly four years with Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, progressing from management trainee to HR business partnering roles supporting field forces across India. His responsibilities there included talent management, retention, performance management, recruitment and HR analytics. Sawant's career in HR followed an earlier stint in business development and HR with REC and Associates. During his postgraduate studies, he also gained exposure to industrial and people practices through assignments with Tata Motors, Schneider Electric, Tata Mills and Voltas. His latest role brings together two strands of his career: experience in a consumer beverages company and exposure to both frontline operations and corporate HR. At Tata Consumer Products, that experience will now be applied specifically to the people agenda of its Ready-to-Drink business.

CSIR-NIIST to establish food fortification centre at PM-inaugurated site. Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 25: The CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST) will establish a Centre of Excellence for Food Fortification Innovation, Research and Training at its Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (ITE) Hub at Thonnakkal here, marking a major expansion of its research and technology translation activities in the nutrition sector. The ITE Hub, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February this year, is intended to provide a platform for translating research into technologies and promoting entrepreneurship and industry-research partnerships. The initiative was formalised on Friday through a Memorandum of Understanding between CSIR-NIIST and Tata Consumer Products Ltd (TCPL), which was exchanged on Thursday during the 85th CSIR Foundation Day celebrations in New Delhi in the presence of Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Jitendra Singh, and CSIR Director General and DSIR Secretary N. Kalaiselvi. The proposed Centre of Excellence for Food Fortification Innovation, Research and Training (CEFIRT) will function as a national platform for research, technology development and training in food fortification, bringing together the scientific capabilities of the CSIR-NIIST and the industry experience of the TCPL. The Centre will work on fortification technologies for staple foods including grains, salt, milk and edible oils, besides protein-enriched, functional and specialised nutrition products. It will provide facilities for collaborative research between scientific institutions and industry, besides supporting analytical testing, validation, scale-up, technology transfer and commercialisation. It will also conduct specialised training and technical programmes for researchers, students and industry professionals, with the aim of strengthening expertise in food fortification and nutrition science. The initiative assumes significance for Thiruvananthapuram as it will be located at the CSIR-NIIST ITE Hub at the Bio 360 Life Sciences Park, Thonnakkal. CSIR-NIIST Director C. Anandharamakrishnan said the partnership would bring together scientific expertise and industrial capabilities to develop scalable solutions in food and nutrition. TCPL Global Chief R&D Officer Vikas Gupta said industry-led innovation and collaborative research could help develop effective food fortification solutions with wider societal impact. CEFIRT is expected to provide a sustained platform for food fortification research, innovation, training and technology translation, with a focus on improving the quality, safety, nutritional value and consumer acceptability of fortified foods. [email protected]