Poonam Burman is the Chief Human Resource Officer at Godrej Industries (Chemicals) Ltd. With 28 years of experience in HR business partnering across varied industries such as FMCG, IT, automobiles, textiles, oil & gas engineering services, mining products and services, and telecom, Poonam has established herself as a seasoned HR Leader.

Before joining Godrej Industries, Poonam was the Category HR Head of Beauty and Personal Care Business Group, South Asia at Hindustan Unilever Ltd. Her extensive career also includes roles such as Head Corporate HR at Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd, Country HR Head of Lexmark International, Head of HR & IR-India at Orica Mining Services, and HR Business Partner at Reliance Communication, Indian Oil Tanking Ltd, Indian Rayon, and Hindustan Motors Ltd.

Throughout her career, Poonam has worked as strategic business enabler by designing and executing People processes and policies aligned to business growth and transformations. Her ability to lead change management initiatives, and transform people practices from reactive to proactive sustainable engagements has been instrumental in driving organizational success. Poonam has successfully handled mergers and post-merger integration, managed challenging IR and union management, specializing in organizational development interventions for team effectiveness. She is a passionate champion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) agendas for business and community development programs.

Poonam holds an HR Executive Program certification from Ross School of Management, University of Michigan, and a Post Graduation in Personnel Management from XISS. She is also a certified Professional Behavior Analyst (CPBA) and has certifications from Aon HR Analyst and Hay Consultants (Singapore) on Hay Job Evaluation.