Payal Nambiar — Advisor

A seasoned and accomplished HR leader with close to 20 years of experience shaping people, culture, and talent strategies across leading global organizations. Her expertise spans high-growth industries including FMCG, Retail, E-commerce, and New age Technology, with leadership roles at Genpact, Samsung, Vodafone, Arvind Fashions (B2C Lifestyle Retailer), Metro Cash & Carry (B2B Wholesale retailer), and Spinny (Tech enabled Car Retailer). Payal has deep expertise in designing and institutionalizing HR operating systems — including Performance and Talent management, Organizational design, and scalable people policies and frameworks. She has led large-scale organization restructuring, operating-model redesign, and capability architecture development to build lean, agile, high-performance organizations. Her leadership style is strategic, yet grounded. Her insights combine empathy, pragmatism, and a deep understanding of evolving workforce dynamics across emerging markets. Throughout her career, she had successfully delivered outcomes in high-pressure environments—overseeing headcount right-sizing, driving digital HR transformations, setting up new corporate offices, and anchoring high-impact initiatives like Performance culture, POSH, D&I, and internal Talent Management and Leadership Development programs. In her last role as Senior Vice President & Head of HR & Admin at Spinny, she led the full-spectrum HR for over 6,000 employees across 22 cities and 75+ Hubs, reporting directly to the Founder & CEO. Prior to that, she served as SVP HR (Corporate & Store) at Metro Cash & Carry, where she drove HR transformation, employer branding, and talent development for 12,000+ employees nationwide. Recent Recognitions: - Top 20 Startup CHROs – StartupLanes (2024) - Top 50 HR Leaders – HR SuccessTalk (2023) - Top 100 HR Super Achievers – ETHR Congress (2018) Currently resides in Dubai, she serves as an Advisor with World Class Health (WCH)—a U.S.-based global healthcare organisation where she works with Fortune 500 IT and ITES clients and large enterprises to unlock significant cost efficiencies and employee well-being outcomes. She holds a Masters (2-year specialised) Degree in Human Resource Management from IMT Ghaziabad, one of India's leading management institutes, and is certified in Big 5 Personality training, UAE Labour Laws, Dale Carnegie Train the Trainer & Six Sigma. Further she has attended multiple training programs on Coaching for Leadership, Women in Leadership, Steven Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, DeBono 6 Thinking Hats.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic HR leader with extensive experience in E-commerce and Retail industries.

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Experience: 20 yrs 4 mos