Job Title: People and organisation director
Company: Royal Canin
Nerisha Charlton is currently the people and organisation director for the international division at Royal Canin.
Appointed to the role in 2026, she partners with the general manager and international division leadership team to lead the people agenda across 115 markets spanning Latin America, Eurasia, the Middle East and Africa. Before this, she served as people and organisation director for Royal Canin South Africa.
Prior to joining Royal Canin, Nerisha spent more than six years at Mars, where she held several senior leadership roles across talent, transformation and people strategy.
Earlier in her career, she was group HR manager at OSHO Group of Companies, worked as an independent HR consultant, spent more than eight years as business unit HR manager for sales, marketing and shared services at AfriSam, and began her corporate HR leadership journey as HR manager at Pick n Pay.
Work:
2026 – Present People and organisation director, international division, Royal Canin
2024 – 2026 Director: people and organisation, Royal Canin South Africa
2023 – 2024 Cross-segment transformation talent lead, Mars
2022 – 2023 Talent director, Mars Multisales Europe & Africa
2021 – 2022 Director: people and organisation & global food supply programme lead, Mars
2017 – 2020 Director: people and organisation, Mars
2017 – 2017 Group human resources manager, OSHO Group of Companies
2016 – 2017 HR consultant, Self-employed
2008 – 2016 Business unit HR manager: sales, marketing and shared services, AfriSam
2002 – 2007 HR manager, Pick n Pay
Education:
1996 – 1996 Honours in Personnel Management, University of KwaZulu-Natal
1993 – 1995 Bachelor of Social Science (Human Resources), University of KwaZulu-Natal
2003 – 2003 Retail Management, Durban University of Technology
About the company: Royal Canin is a global pet nutrition company specialising in scientifically formulated health nutrition for cats and dogs.
