We are looking for a talented Recruiting Leader (Moderate Region) to join our team specializing in Human Resources for Cummins Inc. in Indianapolis, IN.
In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:
- Serve as a trusted recruitment advisor and subject matter expert, leveraging market intelligence, talent analytics, and workforce trends to influence business decisions, improve hiring outcomes, and enhance the candidate experience.
- Build strong partnerships across HR, business leaders, and external stakeholders, creating alignment on talent strategies and accelerating the organization's ability to attract and secure top talent.
- Establish and drive recruiting excellence, implementing scalable processes, technologies, and standards that improve efficiency, consistency, compliance, and overall hiring performance across the region.
- Lead and develop a high-performing recruitment team, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement while consistently exceeding operational and strategic recruiting goals.
- Optimize recruitment investments and resources, ensuring effective budget management, strong financial stewardship, and full compliance with applicable employment laws and corporate policies.
- Champion innovation and digital transformation in talent acquisition, identifying and implementing advanced recruiting technologies and data-driven solutions that streamline processes and improve hiring effectiveness.
- Design and execute forward-thinking recruitment strategies, aligning talent acquisition initiatives with business priorities, regional market dynamics, and long-term workforce planning needs.
- Lead organizational change and continuous improvement efforts, driving adoption of new recruiting practices, building team resilience, and ensuring the recruitment function remains agile, competitive, and future-ready.
To be successful in this role you will need the following:
Lead change effectively by applying structured change management principles to engage stakeholders, drive adoption of new recruitment initiatives, and sustain business outcomes during periods of transformation.
Leverage data and analytics to inform decisions, transforming recruitment metrics and workforce insights into compelling data stories that influence strategy, measure success, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Act as a strategic HR consultant, partnering with business leaders and HR stakeholders to diagnose talent challenges, provide balanced recommendations, and deliver solutions that meet both organizational and employee needs.
Execute HR processes with excellence, ensuring recruiting operations are efficient, compliant, accurate, and agile while balancing process requirements with business priorities to achieve optimal hiring outcomes.
Education, Licenses, Certifications:
College, university, or equivalent degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or a related field, or equivalent experience is required.
Experience:
Extensive experience in Talent Acquisition or other HR Business Partnership or Operations roles.
Additional Responsibilities:
This role is responsible for shaping and delivering end-to-end recruiting strategies that drive business impact across diverse functions and geographies. The leader will combine operational excellence with strategic talent advisory, ensuring our hiring outcomes strengthen workforce capability and align to enterprise priorities
Key responsibilities.
- Full cycle recruiting: Lead the recruiting lifecycle from sourcing through placement, ensuring speed, quality, and candidate experience excellence.
- Stakeholder management: Partner with senior business leaders, HR, and cross-functional stakeholders to anticipate talent needs, influence decisions, and deliver aligned outcomes.
- Strategic talent advisory: Serve as a trusted advisor, translating workforce insights into actionable hiring strategies that strengthen organizational capability.
- Advanced analytics: Use data, market intelligence, and predictive insights to guide hiring decisions, advise leaders, and continuously improve recruiting performance.
- Team leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing recruiting team, fostering accountability, collaboration, and professional growth.
- Drive continuous improvement across recruiting processes, tools, and candidate experience.
- Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in all recruiting strategies and outcomes.
Preferred Experience:
Talent Acquisition experience supporting manufacturing environments, with demonstrated success recruiting skilled trades, engineering, operations, and production.
Skills Required
- College, university, or equivalent degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or related field, or equivalent experience
- Extensive experience in Talent Acquisition or HR Business Partnership or HR Operations
- Lead change management initiatives and drive adoption of new recruiting practices
- Leverage data and analytics to inform talent strategy and measure recruiting performance
- Full-cycle recruiting experience (sourcing through placement) and stakeholder management with senior leaders
- Experience leading, coaching, and developing a high-performing recruiting team
- Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in recruiting strategies
- Talent Acquisition experience supporting manufacturing environments recruiting skilled trades, engineering, operations, and production
Cummins Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cummins and has not been reviewed or approved by Cummins.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company contribution/match and both defined contribution and defined benefit pension plans are offered, alongside profit sharing and an employee stock purchase plan. This mix supports long-term savings and financial security.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options (HSA, HSA Plus, PPO) with dental, vision, life and long-term disability coverage are provided, along with telehealth, mental-health support, and wellness tools. In-network protections and HSA/HSA Plus structures are described to help manage costs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid maternity and paternity leave, family medical leave, and adoption assistance are offered. Reduced or flexible hours and unpaid extended leave options further support caregiving needs.
Cummins Insights
What We Do
At Cummins, we empower everyone to grow their careers through meaningful work, building inclusive and equitable teams, coaching, development and opportunities to make a difference. Across our entire organization, you'll find engineers, developers, and technicians who are innovating, designing, testing, and building. You'll also find accountants, marketers, as well as manufacturing, quality and supply chain specialists who are working with technology that's just as innovative and advanced.
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