Harman Dhillon

Executive Director, Beauty & Wellbeing

Ms Harman Dhillon is the Executive Director, Beauty & Wellbeing, Hindustan Unilever Limited.

Harman assumed her current role in 2024, bringing with her a track record of building purpose-driven brands and transforming businesses across South Asia, North America, and Europe. She has successfully led strategic pivots in the beauty and personal care sector, combining deep consumer insight with brand stewardship and P&L ownership.

In her current role, Harman has architected the transformation strategy for Beauty & Wellbeing - closing key portfolio gaps to build a future-fit, premium-led offering. She has spearheaded the acquisition of the fast-growing premium derma brand, Minimalist, and driven the rapid scale-up of the acquired wellbeing brand, OZiva. She has led the shift toward social-first demand generation tailored to beauty audiences and curated a differentiated route-to-market strategy to elevate HUL’s presence in beauty channels.

Prior to this, as Head of Skin Care & Colour Cosmetics, Harman led HUL’s premiumisation agenda, revitalising brands like Lakmé and Pond’s, and spearheading entry into new formats and segments to modernise the portfolio. Earlier, as VP Hair Care, she launched Dove Hair and TRESemmé in India, created a market for conditioners, and led iconic campaigns such as Dove's ‘Stop the Beauty Test’ and Clinic Plus ‘Meri Beti Strong’. Under her leadership, Hair Care has strengthened its market leadership over the decade.

Harman’s leadership has been recognised with multiple Cannes Lions, Effies, and Emvies awards. In 2025, she was on the Jury for Cannes Glass Lions. She has been featured in BW Businessworld’s Most Influential Women 2025 list, Economic Times Women Ahead list (2023), Impact 50 Most Influential Women list (Top 3 in 2023), Businessworld Top 100 Marketers list (2023), and Economic Times Under 40 list (2020).

She also serves on the Boards of Unilever Nepal Limited, Lakmé Lever Private Limited, Zywie Ventures Private Limited and Uprising Science Pvt. Ltd.

She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce and an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi. Harman joined Hindustan Unilever Limited in 2006.