MUMBAI: Varun T Wanvari has pulled off corporate India's latest U-turn, returning to Himalaya Wellness Company in May after an 18-month sojourn through Amazon's retail machinery.
"Some journeys come a full circle," the category manager declared on LinkedIn, clearly pleased with his homecoming. He's not wrong—Wanvari previously managed lotions and creams at The Himalaya Drug Company from 2016 to 2018.
His career reads like FMCG bingo: systems engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, marketing intern for Hot Wheels at Mattel, brand duties at Reliance's Hamleys, and five years flogging Good Day biscuits and Toastea at Britannia Industries. Amazon beckoned in late 2023 as senior category manager, but the wellness world's siren call proved stronger.
"Grateful for the continued trust," Wanvari said, deploying enough LinkedIn enthusiasm to power a small ashram. His hashtag-heavy post (#NewBeginnings #WellnessWithPur) suggests genuine excitement about returning to products you can actually smell.
Whether he'll apply Amazon's data wizardry to ancient ayurvedic wisdom remains to be seen. This boomerang has landed exactly where it started—with considerably more corporate spin.