Leadership Move · CHRO · Manufacturing
Vikram Shetty adds group safety to CHRO mandate at Girija Industries
Eleven plants and 18,000 people, two-thirds of them on the shop floor, come under a single people-and-safety function.
The appointment
- Executive
- Vikram Shetty
- New role
- Chief Human Resources & Safety Officer
- Company
- Girija Industries
- Previous role
- Chief Human Resources Officer
- Previous company
- Girija Industries
- Effective
- March 19, 2026
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Based
- Pune
Girija Industries has expanded Vikram Shetty’s remit to chief human resources and safety officer with effect from 19 March 2026, bringing group safety under the people function across eleven plants.
Shetty has led HR at the auto-components manufacturer since 2021 and negotiated a five-year wage settlement across seven unionised plants in 2025 without a stoppage. He has since been rebuilding the company’s apprentice pipeline after a decade of contract-labour dependence.
He has spent his entire career in manufacturing HR, beginning as a plant personnel officer in 2002, and argues that corporate HR transformation fails in industrial businesses because it is designed for the head office and merely announced to everyone else.
SourceGirija Industries press release
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