Flipkart: Flipkart appoints Reliance Industries’ Seema Nair as HR head

“In this role, she will oversee human resources for Flipkart, partnering closely with respective leaders and HR teams,” he said.

In October last year, ET reported that Krishna Raghavan, who had served as the ecommerce firm’s CHRO for over six years, had left the company.

Before joining Flipkart, Nair spent over six years at Reliance Industries, where she handled group-level assignments as the head of group HR digitisation and the head of the group HR office.

Nair has also held the position of CHRO for India and SAARC at Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages as well as Cisco Systems.

The announcement comes just ahead of Flipkart’s annual festival season sales, which begin on September 27.

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Ahead of the festive season, Flipkart has strengthened its supply chain network by launching 11 new fulfilment centres across India, covering over 1.3 million square feet to meet the growing demand.On February 20, in an internal communication, Krishnamurthy informed employees about the exit of four senior vice presidents (SVPs) from the company. ET had first reported on these senior-level exits, which included travel booking website Cleartrip’s head Ayyappan R, marketplace and categories leader Amitesh Jha, fintech and payments head Dheeraj A, and growth and retention head Bharath Ram.

The senior-level exits came as Flipkart had undertaken performance-based trimming across various departments, including vice presidents in engineering and product.

In January, ET reported that Flipkart had initiated an exercise to lay off 1,100-1,500 employees, trimming its workforce by 5-7%. The company had also halted new hiring over the past year to manage costs, maintaining a pattern of annual performance-based job cuts for the last two years.