Team Marksmen Network’s 4th Most Preferred Workplaces- celebrated the pioneers shaping India’s most dynamic sectors - manufacturing & Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech, with forward-looking, people-powered cultures.
Team Marksmen Network is set to host its highly anticipated 4th edition of Most Preferred Workplaces, 2025-26 – Manufacturing and Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech, a flagship initiative celebrating organisations that continue to redefine the contours of workplace excellence, innovation, and human-centric leadership across India’s most vital industries.
Scheduled to take place on 11th December 2025, Thursday, the event aims to bring together senior leaders from Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Healthcare, and allied sectors to recognise and honour, those reshaping the future of work in an era of transformation and opportunity.
With Manufacturing contributing roughly 17–18% to India’s GDP, and Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech forming one of the world’s fastest-growing life sciences ecosystems, this recognition celebrates workplace cultures that are driving national progress with innovation, resilience, and human-centric leadership.
The Most Preferred Workplaces – Manufacturing & Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech 2025–26 is set to address this transformation by convening 150+ senior leaders and 25+ prominent speakers to share research-backed insights and celebrate workplace excellence across the healthcare ecosystem.
A Celebration of People-Powered Transformation
The premium platform honours companies that have excelled in:
- Building future-ready talent and leadership pools
- Driving and adopting technology, digital transformation, and innovation
- Embedding employee wellbeing, inclusion, and empowerment
- Creating ethical, sustainable, and resilient work cultures
- Balancing performance with empathy, and scale with sustainability
This recognition is grounded in extensive culture audits, employee feedback, and research-led evaluations conducted by Marksmen’s insights team.
The ceremony will be graced by Shri Subhash Desai, Former Minister for Industries & Mining, Government of Maharashtra, as the Guest of Honour, as he highlights the nation as well as Maharashtra’s industrial momentum, commending the awardees for their commitment to building India’s future.
Expressing his best wishes Shri Desai, said, “Manufacturing and healthcare are not just sectors—they are the backbone of India’s growth story. The organisations honoured at the platform, not just exemplify how innovation and human values can come together to create workplaces that are truly world-class, but also harness of ecosystem of collaboration and building resilience.”
Speaking on the significance of the initiative, Sharad, Gupta, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Team Marksmen Network, said, “The organisations celebrated today represent the gold standard of excellence. They are showing India—and the world—that people-first cultures are not just good practice, but strategic advantage.” He reaffirmed that the 2025 cohort reflects the very best of cross-sector innovation, resilience, and culture-building.
The platform will feature high-impact conversations with leading healthcare executives such as Gautam Khanna, CEO, Hinduja Hospital; Dr. Sujit Paul, Group CEO, Zota Healthcare Limited; Rupam Singh, Senior Vice President- Corporate HR Head, JSW Group; Sarika Gore, Head HR & GM, Artsons Limited, A Tata Enterprise; Sheetal Arora, Head Human Resources & IR, Mobility Group India, Eaton; Tapan Bagwe, Head HR- India & South Asia, Barry Callebaut Group; Namita Patwari, CHRO, Alembic Pharmaceuticals; Purushottam Kaushik, Head, Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution, The World Economic Forum India Liaison Office, World Economic Forum Dr. Jagmohan Singh Rishi, Global Head – Learning & Digital Business Excellence, Wockhardt; and Mandar Dani, Director – People & Organization (Health Industries), PwC among various prominent others.
Shaping India’s Growth Decade
The honoured organisations span critical sectors that will power India’s economic acceleration in the coming years. By fostering cultures rooted in trust, empathy, innovation, and continuous learning, they are paving the way for a future where talent thrives and industries evolve.