Kedar Lele Member of Della Leaders Club, Global Chapter

Kedar Lele

Chairman

A well rounded business leader, Kedar has had over two decades of experience across Advertising, Internet companies, FMCG Marketing, Sales & Customer Development, and General Management.

Kedar represents diversity in a conventional business. His choice in education & career demonstrates adaptability, curiosity, insight and relationship management. Having started his career in advertising, Kedar spent a few years in Internet businesses gaining critical experience in consumer & B2B marketing, product management, advanced solution selling, customer & alliances management and category development.

After graduating from ISB in 2004, Kedar joined Unilever and has successfully run businesses across the length and breadth of the country (living in 5 cities in 15 years) while gaining experience in consumer and trade marketing including category management for diverse channels from Shakti in deep rural to Modern Trade & eCommerce, innovations management, promotion & activation planning, advertising & communications design and deployment. Having played the role of a functional leader, Kedar has been exposed to both brand development & brand building streams at Hindustan Unilever.
Category management, consumer behaviour, go-to-market planning and people leadership are his key strengths.

As a General Manager for HUL, Kedar ran a Billion Dollar business while leading a 500+ member, multi-functional team spread across 12 states of East & North East. In this critical leadership role, he was responsible for setting the regional agenda, designing & implementing sales & customer development strategies and representing the organisation in various external forums.

As a Vice President (since 2014), Kedar was responsible for setting up the exciting eCommerce business for HUL apart from leading the Modern Trade & Institutional (CSD/CPC) Business and overseeing the Customer Development Centre of Excellence (COE) for Unilever.

Kedar moved to Dhaka in 2017 to lead the Unilever Bangladesh business. An end to end responsibility comprising a board with government directors, large manufacturing operations, one of the biggest sales & distribution networks in comparable Unilever countries and a comprehensive talent refresh agenda to build foundation for long-term growth of the business.

An alumnus of the Indian School of Business, Kedar majored in Strategic Marketing and Operations Management, topped the Marketing stream and was featured on the Dean’s list.

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India's Hottest Business Leaders under 40: Success is being able to make a difference, says HUL's Kedar Lele

Kedar Lele to Join HUL Management committee as executive director

HUL Appoints Unilever Bangladesh Chairman Kedar Lele As Executive Director

Kedar Lele Elected as The New Chairman of Unilever

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FICCI – Bangladesh’s Foremost Growth Partner for Over 50 Years.

Time to value Water!

Restarting Economies, Building Resilience

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