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Saumya Mittal

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Chief People Officer for Asia | Corporate Sr Director at McDonald's
📍 Singapore, Singapore

Saumya Mittal is the Chief People Officer for Asia at McDonalds, bringing over 18 years of HR leadership from PepsiCo and Google. An alumna of Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, she specializes in organizational design, diversity & inclusion, and change management. Colleagues describe her as strategic, passionate, driven, and an excellent business partner.

Saumya was the winner of the People Matters "Are You in the List 2015: Top HR Leaders in the country" award.

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Chief People Officer for Asia | Corporate Sr Director
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Singapore, Singapore
Personality Overview

How Saumya shows up

Friendly Yet Blunt
Persuasive & Assertive
Challenger

They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince. They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting proof as well as information. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing

Priorities

Topics Saumya cares about

Organizational Excellence
In a recent interview, she shared her core principles for building resilient, adaptive, and people-centric organizations that can achieve excellence at scale.
Simplifying Complexity
She advocates for consciously subtracting complexity within large organizations to focus on the few things that deliver the greatest impact, following the 80/20 principle.
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Career

Work history

8-2025
Chief People Officer for Asia | Corporate Sr Director
McDonald's
7-2021 - 8-2025
APAC Commercial HR Lead
Google
8-2019 - 7-2021
APAC People Partner @ Google
Google
11-2017 - 9-2019
Diversity Equity & Inclusion Lead @ APAC
Google
5-2017 - 11-2017
HRBP for HQ functions (11 functions - 700 employees)
PepsiCo
In the press

Media appearances

McDonald's appoints Saumya Mittal as CPO for Asia - HR Katha. Featured in HR Katha
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McDonald's Asia Appoints Saumya Mittal as Chief People Officer. Featured in ProspectWiki
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Education
2005 - 2007
PGDHRM
Management Development Institute, Gurgaon
2000 - 2004
BE-IT
Delhi University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

Influence (I) reflects the degree to which a person prefers to work by influencing or persuading others. Those scoring high tend to be people oriented, motivated by social recognition and building relationships.

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