How HUL’s Rohit Jawa plans to beat India’s clock speed

Mumbai: Nine months into the role of CEO and managing director of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), India’s largest fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company, Rohit Jawa is clear about the job at hand, which is to nudge India’s largest consumer goods company to move "faster than the clock speed of India”. Before taking over the corner room of HUL in June 2023, Jawa, 57, served as chief of transformation for Unilever in London, where he piloted the company’s end-to-end transformation from January 2022. Jawa expressed surprise at the pace of change in India in an interview late last week, a day…