Nitin Paranjpe is Unilever chief people officer for business transformation

Consumer goods company plans a new organisation model that will reduce senior management roles by around 15%

Nitin Paranjpe, Unilever's chief operating officer, will assume the role of chief transformation and chief people’s officer from April 1 to lead business transformation and head HR function, the company said in its release.

At the consumer goods company’s Indian business, Sanjiv Mehta will continue as Hindustan Unilever (HUL) chairman and managing director.

The changes at Unilever are part of a proposed new organisation model that will reduce senior management roles by around 15 per cent and junior management ones by 5 per cent—altogether resulting in 1,500 job cuts. The company said it does not expect an impact on factory teams by