Open to dialogue · Bengaluru

Gautam
Shetty

Director, Head of Talent Acquisition · NatWest Group India

Forbes India · Top 30 Talent Leaders 2023

Now leading

Talent at NatWest India

20 years building teams
that build banks.

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20+ years in talent across banking and logistics

Top 30 Talent Leaders, Forbes India 2023 Powered by Indeed

4 global employers Target · JCPenney · Maersk · NatWest

100K+ careers shaped across retail, logistics, and banking

01 - Leadership

Career milestones

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

Current

NatWest Group Director, Head of Talent Acquisition (India)

2025 to Present

Leading the India talent strategy for one of UK's largest banks.

BANKING

AP Møller-Maersk APAC Head of TA · Global Head of Employer Branding

2018 to 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

JCPenney Head of Talent Acquisition (India)

2016 to 2018

Built mentoring and second-career hiring programs. Ran TA for the US retailer's India operations.

RETAIL

Target Corporation Recruiter → Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

2008 to 2016

Eight years of progressive TA leadership at Target India. Foundations in tech, leadership, and high-volume hiring.

RETAIL TECH

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 in Banking · Logistics · Global Enterprise

Speaks at TA summits, employer brand panels, leadership forums

Awards Forbes India Top 30 Talent Leaders (2023)

Languages English · Hindi · Kannada · Tulu

Education Details on request

04 - Speaking