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Gautam
Shetty

Director, Head of Talent Acquisition · NatWest Group India

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Worked at

NatWestMaerskJCPenneyTarget

20+ years in talent across banking and logistics

5 global employers Ma Foi Randstad · Target · JCPenney · Maersk · NatWest

01 — Leadership

Career milestones

Twenty years across global banking and enterprise logistics, building, scaling, and leading talent functions at international organisations.

2005

Ma Foi Randstad Talent Consultant
2005 — 2008
Early-career foundation in consulting-side talent advisory. Recruiting and hiring strategy for large enterprise clients across India.

CONSULTING
2008

Target Corporation Recruiter → Senior TA Manager
2008 — 2016
Eight years of progressive TA leadership at Target India. Foundations in tech, leadership, and high-volume hiring.

RETAIL TECH
2016

JCPenney Head of Talent Acquisition (India)
2016 — 2018
Built mentoring and second-career hiring programs. Ran TA for the US retailer's India operations.

RETAIL
2018

AP Møller-Maersk APAC Head of TA · Global Head of Employer Branding
2018 — 2025
Built the employer brand across APAC from the ground up. Ran talent acquisition for the region at one of the world's largest shipping and logistics companies.

LOGISTICS
2025

Current

NatWest Group Director, Head of Talent Acquisition (India)
2025 — Present
Leading the India talent strategy for one of UK's largest banks.

BANKING

02 - Range

Areas of expertise

Strategy

Designing TA engines that scale with the org, not against it.

Brand

Building employer brands people remember after the offer.

D&I

Diversity as outcome of a deliberate funnel, not a quota.

Leadership

Hiring the leaders who'll outgrow the role they signed for.

Tech

Engineering, data, and product, competing for the same scarce talent.

03 - Story

In his own words

Twenty years in, I'm still learning. The best part of this job isn't filling roles. It's watching the people you hired become the leaders who hire the next generation. From building APAC's employer brand at Maersk to leading India's talent engine at NatWest, the through-line has been the same.

"Hire for trajectory,
not titles."

The work I'm proudest of isn't on a balance sheet. It's the mentorship, the second-career women returning to work through programs we built, the leaders who joined as recruiters and now run their own talent functions. Logistics taught me scale: at Maersk, hiring across APAC meant thinking in terms of supply chains of people, not just supply chains of containers. That lens is what I bring to banking now.

Passionate Customer mindset Caring leader Open to learning

Based in Bengaluru, India

Working across BFSI · Retail & E-Com · Shipping & Logistics

Speaks at TA summits, employer brand panels, leadership forums

Languages English · Hindi · Kannada · Tulu

04 - Speaking