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Kartik Harugoli to be P&G India’s purchases head from Jan ’26
MUMBAI: P&G India has announced a leadership shuffle in its purchases function, with Pawan Verma set to step down as purchases head at the close of business on December 31, 2025. The brand said Verma is relocating outside India following a change in his assignment.
Kartik Harugoli will take over as purchases head from January 1, 2026, according to a P&G release on the BSE. A 16-year P&G veteran, Harugoli has worked across multiple categories and markets, including India and the United States. He has led several transformation projects and recently oversaw purchases across the brand-building ecosystem for P&G India.
The company said his work has influenced operations not just in India but across the wider P&G network, spanning the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, where his systems-improvement initiatives touched more than 90,000 employees.