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Rucha Khatal

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General Manager (HR) - India Region Corporate Functions at Cummins India
📍 Pune, Maharashtra, India

Rucha is a dynamic HR leader with experience across the manufacturing, retail, and IT sectors. An alumna of SIBM Pune, she has led HR for over 1, 500 employees, focusing on organizational redesign, culture transformation, and implementing strategic people initiatives to drive business performance.

She is passionate about the human side of work, exploring topics like mental fatigue, burnout prevention, and employee happiness. Rucha believes in reinventing HR to create corporate environments where employees can lead fulfilling lives, free from work-related stress.

She received an award from Cummins India for leading projects that she described as being "truly close to my heart. "

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
General Manager (HR) - India Region Corporate Functions
Job Level
Senior
Location
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Employee Well-being
Her posts frequently discuss preventing burnout, managing work-related stress, and the importance of happiness as a key to success.
Innovative HR Models
She questions traditional performance management systems like the Bell Curve and explores disruptive ideas for reinventing HR, inspired by books like "HR Disrupted".
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Career

Work history

9-2024
General Manager (HR) - India Region Corporate Functions
Cummins India
5-2021 - 9-2024
HR Business Partner - Kothrud Engine Plant
Cummins India
2-2020 - 5-2021
HR Operational Excellence - Engine & Components Business Unit
Cummins India
10-2016 - 1-2018
Associate Consultant
VES LLP
4-2016 - 9-2016
Management Trainee (HRBP - South Region)
TITAN COMPANY LIMITED
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Education
2014 - 2016
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
2008 - 2012
BE
Pune Institute of Computer Technology
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