1.
Reckitt
Benckiser elevates Gurveen Singh to head-global HR
Singh,
currently head of HR for developing markets, replaces Deborah Yates, head of
global HR.
Reckitt Benckiser has just elevated Gurveen Singh
as the global head of human resources, after it announced the exit of four of
its key executives last week. The British consumer healthcare company told
employees that its chiefs—for information technology, human resources,
developing markets and category development—from its 10-member executive
committee are leaving.
The company claimed that the four simultaneous exits
are a mere coincidence and were all voluntary decisions. The company confirmed
the movements to the media this Monday and said that Deborah Yates, head of HR,
who is leaving at the end of this year, will be replaced by Singh, who is
currently head of HR for developing markets.
India-born Singh, is based out of Dubai, in her
current role which she has been serving for three years now. Prior to this, she
was regional human resources head for South Asia. Singh is a management
graduate from XLRI Jamshedpur, and an honors graduate in Philosophy from
Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram College.
She is one of the few talented HR professionals
who have risen up the ranks to reach global leadership roles. Some of the other
Indian officials in global leadership roles within HR are, Tanuj Kapilashrami,
global head of talent at Standard Chartered Bank; Leena Nair, senior vice
president for leadership and organisation development at Unilever; and
Bhuvaneswar Naik, head of global talent management at SAP SE. Recently, Sameer
Khanna, who was the head-HR, India at Ericsson, took up the role of the global
HR business partner for product area (PA) managed services (MS) network, PA-
managed services IT and MS strategy.
2.
Devleena S
Majumder new chief of staff at Culture Machine
She
will be focusing on streamlining operations during the company’s growth phase.
Culture Machine has elevated Devleena S Majumder
as its chief of staff (COS). In her previous role, Majumder was
president-people & culture at Culture Machine. She played a key role in
initiating a discussion about the first day of period leave in the company,
which was well received by the employees.
In her new role, she will be responsible for
driving operations across the board. She will be ensuring that the major
operations of the organisation are streamlined through one source.
She will report to Sameer Pitalwalla, who is the
CEO and co-founder of the company.
Majumder has experience of over 18 years in areas
of strategic business partnering, organisational development, analytics,
employee engagement, organisational culture building, compensation management
and leadership talent acquisition.
3.
Vinod
Rai elevated as the head-HR (Engineering, QA, and Rohtak R&D), Maruti
Suzuki India
Rai
has been with the company for more than six years.
Taking up a larger role at Maruti Suzuki India now, Vinod
Rai, who was the head-HR (supply chain and plant) has been elevated as the
head-HR (Engineering, QA, and Rohtak R&D). Having been with the company for
over six years, he is now responsible for leading end-to-end HR operations of
engineering, quality analysis, as well as Rohtak R&D facility, which has an
employee strength of about 3200.
In his previous role at Maruti Suzuki, Rai was uniquely
responsible for setting up standardised HR/IR capabilities for the company’s
external stakeholders or the vendor companies ensuring sustainability for the
overall business. Being a little different from the regular internal HR
function, the role itself was challenging and offered him remarkable exposure
to third-party integration.
With that experience in hand, Rai takes the lead
for managing HR for another critical arm of the company.
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