Shalini Saraswat named Brand Director and Business Head, Pantene India

Saraswat most recently served as Senior Brand Manager for Head & Shoulders India

by e4m Desk
Published: Nov 2, 2026 6:30 PM | 1 min read

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has appointed Shalini Saraswat as Brand Director and Business Head for Pantene India.
Saraswat has over five years of experience at P&G, previously serving as Senior Brand Manager for Head & Shoulders and Tide India.
Her career at P&G began with a summer internship on Tide India in 2020, which led to a pre-placement offer.
Prior to P&G, she worked for three years at Unilever in research and development, focusing on various brands in home care and hair care.

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has elevated Shalini Saraswat to Brand Director and Business Head, Pantene India. The move marks the next step in her career at P&G, where she has spent over five years working across some of the company's leading brands in India.

Saraswat most recently served as Senior Brand Manager for Head & Shoulders India from April 2024 to November 2026. Before that, she was Senior Brand Manager for Tide India from May 2022 to April 2024 and Brand Manager for Tide India from May 2021 to April 2022. Her journey with P&G began with a summer internship on Tide India from April to June 2020, which led to a pre-placement offer.

In her new role, Saraswat will lead the Pantene India business, bringing experience across laundry and hair care categories.

Before joining P&G, Saraswat spent three years at Unilever in research and development. She served as Associate, Home Care Global R&D, in Mumbai from April 2017 to May 2019, after beginning her career as an Executive Trainee in Global R&D from June 2016 to March 2017.

Her training experience at Unilever included global design for tea and beverages brands such as Red Label and Brooke Bond, regional hair care design for Dove, TRESemmé and Clinic Plus, and packaging for home care laundry detergents, including Surf Excel.