Key Highlights :
India native Shailesh Jejurikar will become CEO of P&G on January 1, 2026.
Existing CEO Jon Moeller will be named Executive Chairman.
Jejurikar has over 35 years of international leadership experience with P&G.
Key Background :
Shailesh Jejurikar’s naming as new CEO of Procter & Gamble is a career highlight not just for the company, but also for business executives everywhere. The native Indian and Lucknow IIM alumna started his P&G career in the India office in 1989 and worked his way up through various jobs on various continents. His North American, European, Asian, Latin American, and African leadership experience makes him one of P&G’s most globally experienced leaders.
Throughout his tenure, Jejurikar has led numerous business units, but his most significant accomplishment was leading P&G’s Fabric and Home Care business. The business is the company’s largest by category and possesses brands such as Tide, Ariel, Downy, and Febreze. Under his leadership of the business, it was transformed into an innovation value-creating force that performed increasingly better in emerging and developed economies.
As Chief Operating Officer, Jejurikar is leading a wide span of responsibilities that include high-growth business market leadership and operating pillars such as global business services, sales execution, digitalization, and sustainability. His geography-driven integration function and capability have established him as a key architect of P&G’s new growth model.
The CEO transition is timely. P&G is undertaking a company-wide, two-year restructuring effort that involves eliminating around 7,000 jobs and strategic portfolio resetting. The action is the firm’s reaction to changing consumer patterns, higher input costs, and intensified competition. Jejurikar’s experience in understanding inner realities and outer marketplace pressures makes him best positioned to lead this transformation.
Chancellor of the former CEO Jon Moeller, who became Executive Chairman upon taking up responsibilities in 2021. He led the company through supply chain disruptions, labor shortages and inflationary expenses, without diluting profitability and share performance. His continued presence will provide strategic continuity at the leadership transition.
Jejurikar’s rise also indicates the increasing prominence of Indian-origin leaders in global corporate circles. His move is also consistent with P&G’s policy of promoting from within as an example of its focus on grooming long-term leaders with in-depth institutional knowledge. As he rises to head one of the world’s largest consumer goods firms, everyone will be watching keenly to see how he balance innovation, operating efficiency, and long-term growth.
