Raquel Suarez is a global HR transformation leader with over 20 years of experience driving organisational performance and leadership capability across multinational FMCG and Beauty companies like Coty and Unilever. She currently serves as Head of Human Resources for Coty’s $2B Consumer Beauty division, where she leads the global carve‑out across 37+ countries, delivering organisational efficiency, accelerating innovation cycles, and upgrading senior leadership talent to strengthen end‑to‑end P&L ownership.

Previously, Raquel was VP HR Transformation for Coty’s Global Corporate Functions and UKI/ANZ, redesigning the global operating model, elevating digital and omnichannel commercial capabilities.

Before Coty, Raquel spent over a decade at Unilever in global leadership roles. She served as Head of Talent for the 12B Home Care, Unilever Division and built CEO‑level succession pipelines, co‑designed Unilever’s Global People Strategy, enabled 10,000+ employees to adopt agile ways of working, and helped position the company as the #1 Employer of Choice in 56 countries with a talent reach of 17M+ followers. Across her career, Raquel has become known for enterprise transformation, leadership upgrading, and progressive people strategy. Her purpose is to unleash people’s infinite potential, and she is a frequent speaker on the future of work and talent ecosystems.