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gradar was built to remove the need for the ‘big-time’ consulting firms (you know the ones we’re talking about!) so you can handle your job evaluation project affordably in-house with a single software solution.
Even so, we understand you might still need some additional support from a compensation and benefits professional. That’s why we’ve put together a list of partners who align with our values and are trained to use the gradar system.
ESPERTA
ESPERTA is a consulting company in the fields of Talent Management and Strategic Rewards. They have been providing solutions to organisations to align talent and rewards strategy with business strategy since 1999. Their portfolio and experience have demonstrated consistent results in a multitude of companies of all sizes and sectors of activity.
CompTeam
CompTeam,LLC is an HR management consulting firm that specializes in job evaluation, performance pay and talent management solutions. Since 2013 CompTeam has offered a full range of employee pay and performance solutions. Sam Reeve is the founder of CompTeam. His core focus is leading companies through transformational change by optimizing talent initiatives with reward programs to achieve long-term strategic objectives. Sam’s diverse experience includes the design and optimization of performance driven variable compensation plans for executive, sales and core employee populations of growing companies. Sam is a global certified compensation consultant (CCP, GRP) with over 15 years of experience in Total Reward Strategies.
Nspire People Ltd
Nspire People provide full spectrum People & Reward consultancy services. We deliver creative and strategic reward solutions across a Company to ensure that organisations maximise their reward spend in a fair and equitable manner. We are led by Kelly Anderson who is an experienced and accomplished HR professional. Throughout Kelly’s 20-year career, she has honed her craft of all things People and Culture, from Employee Relations, and Operational People Management, to the more specialised elements of Engagement, Reward, and Organisational Design. She has direct experience of managing the People elements of M&A activities from due diligence to integration and aligning businesses together – as well as a wider understanding of organisational strategy, financials, boardroom dynamics and driving change. All of this experience combined, provides a powerful insight into both the leadership of an organisation and how a People and Reward strategy can maximise your business performance from job evaluation through to robust external benchmarking and development of a powerful Employee Value Proposition. Working with Nspire People will give you clarity and support throughout your Reward project working side by side with you to ensure that your business objectives are me.
Reload HR
Reload HR is a team of digital transformation consultants, dedicated to HR Transformation and HR Tech Implementation. We follow our vision of delivering HRT projects agile and hands-on with a team of Experts. With our combination of HR and IT expertise, we build the bridge between HR process and IT by understanding both sides and speaking both languages. Our strength is to get things done and to work solution oriented towards your goal for a more digitized and future-ready HR.
QBiDD
QBiDD is a Amsterdam based HR consultancy firm, run by Mr. Dennis Telkamp, a very experienced and knowledgable HR consultant with a strong focus on Job Evaluation, Compensation & Benefits and strategic HR management.
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We advise you on all issues relating to Human Resources in your company and develop tailored solutions for your company’s success. Our solutions are based on customized components from eight areas, such as organizational development, management, compensation and working hours. We don’t see our task in providing you with finished concepts but rather in assisting you individually in your matters. We contribute with our work to the objective of motivating employees, encouraging them to think independently and promoting long-time loyalty to the company. It is our understanding that your company is only as successful as its employees.
JTS HR Solutions
At JTS, our mission is to protect the interest of our clients through unique and innovative approaches to their Human Resources and Employee Benefits Administration needs. The JTS HR Solutions team serves companies across a wide range of industries, ranging in size from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises. With expertise comprising all aspects of Human Resources, we offer our clients the opportunity to support, enhance, or fully outsource their HR functions. Specific areas of focus include Administrative Services, including leave management and payroll; Compliance Support; Employee Experience, including organizational development and corporate wellness; Employee Relations; Strategic Consulting; and Total Rewards, including compensation strategy. The vast and evolving world of Human Resources can be challenging to navigate. JTS HR Solutions will apply our “intentionally different” approach, providing the resources necessary to support your company and employees every step of the way.
Advance HRS
ADVANCE is an all-round HR consultancy and services firm active in the broad area of Human Resources Management and Consulting. ADVANCE has a regional focus on Aruba and the Dutch Caribbean islands, where they support the corporate sector, nonprofit organizations and the government.
Perform & Pay
We bring simplicity to the complex world of performance and rewarding. With 30+ years of practical experience, we help businesses design reward solutions that fits to your needs, drives employee performance and impacts employee experience. Our customer base ranges from large multinational stock listed corporations to small family owned companies. Whether you need to re-define your job architecture, or whole approach to performance or rewards, develop practical tools such as incentive plans, or you need temporary resources for your development projects, we are the partner to talk to. We believe in long-term customer relationships, clear and simple solutions, and a flexible approach in everything we do.
Rewards Consulting
Rewards Consulting is an employee reward and benefits consultancy based in the UK. We help organisations make their employee reward strategy more effective and aligned with their goals and values. We also help companies with reward projects, including implementing a job architecture and job evaluation, developing salary bands, bonus plans, benefits programmes, private company share plans and navigating the reward aspects of M&A.
Berndtson HR Consulting
As a strategic and operational management consultancy, we support our clients in transformation processes and in finding solutions to challenges along the entire HR value chain. We attach great importance to our co-creation approach - that means no imposed one-size-fits-all solutions, but individual approaches and close cooperation with our clients. Our team consists of experienced consultants and colleagues with practical HR experience. In this way, we ensure that we remain close to the operational business, while proceeding strategically and pragmatically in order to develop implementable solutions. Our clientele ranges from medium-sized businesses to internationally operating large corporations in various industries. As part of the German Berndtson Group, we can also draw on a broad network and additional industry know-how.
Balance Caribbean
As an experienced and all-round HR consultancy firm, Balance Consultancy offers a wide range of consultancy services throughout the six islands of the Dutch Caribbean. Balance focuses on developing organizations and employees and has a lot of experience with job evaluation and remuneration projects.
HRD – Desenvolvimento de Recursos Humanos
As an experienced and all-round HR consultancy firm, Balance Consultancy offers a wide range of consultancy services throughout the six islands of the Dutch Caribbean. Balance focuses on developing organizations and employees and has a lot of experience with job evaluation and remuneration projects.
Widen Advisory
We are an organization design firm. We analyze, design, and transform client organizations to unlock business value, reduce costs, and maximize people potential, by looking at organizations from a broad perspective through the 9 dimensions of our Organization Architect© model. We’re a balanced team of industry experts and business advisors with a broad exposure to various sectors & organizations. All our advisors have been trained in global consulting power houses and have a successful track record in organization design & transformation projects. We operate from the heart of Europe and together with our technology & consulting partners, we have a network of over 50 experienced advisors in Europe, US and APAC and provide our clients with impactful services, state-of-the-art technology and products.
SAP Compensation Solutions
Founded in 1993, SAP Consultoria is a regional compensation management consulting firm located in Brazil. Our company is engaged in the development and implementation of projects focused in Compensation and Reward Management. Our consultants work closely with you to assess, design, and implement solutions customized for your company. Supporting organizations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
SkalaCo
At SkalaCo we support organizations by providing business advice in key growth stages and during change management processes. We believe in the potential of people and their capabilities to work together and create an environment of continuous improvement and growth. The people & culture management is one of our core areas of intervention. We reinforce the HR management model by providing a solid and agile structure to support the organizations scaling processes. Our advisory model is based on the collaborative work between our clients, partners and SkalaCo for an effective and true intervention with a strategic long-term vision.
spod.on
spod.on - smart people & organizational development… to the point! With us you have a smart partner at your side! We are not a typical consultancy, instead we offer you customized, pragmatic and evidence-based solutions for your challenges. Based on our diverse experience in different positions and organizations and with the help of our network, we develop solution strategies in the area of personnel and organizational development as well as (strategic) HR management and implement them together with you. We see ourselves as part of your team and place great value on communication at eye level. While all our work is oriented towards the employee life cycle, one of our main focuses is on organizational structures and processes. This includes the introduction of fair, performance-enhancing and transparent compensation concepts via modern job evaluation and career models. Gradar is our ideal partner as a job evaluation system (and more). With our strategically conceptual and operationally flexible way of working, we not only succeed in maintaining our focus, but also in mastering any challenge, no matter how complex, in an understandable, comprehensible and implementable way.
St. Oberholz Consulting GmbH
„Wirksamkeit“: St. Oberholz Consulting helps organizations navigate transformations effectively. We organize change processes, bring orientation, establish understanding, open the door to dialog, resolve points of contention, and help organizations and teams to realize their full potential. We enable those involved to help shape the journey. Only when people contribute to change will it become effective. And only when people act from a place of understanding will it remain effective. We know that effective transformation can only be achieved when everyone works together, which is why we have experts who work in all relevant disciplines: Executive coaches, change facilitators, HR experts, communications strategists, designers. We see ourselves as part of your team.
Dr. Güldem Demirer
Dr. Güldem Demirer brings in-depth experience as an HR practitioner in mid-sized companies as well as international corporations. You are in capable hands from analysis to implementation of the matching solution for your company. My portfolio includes Total Rewards solutions in the NewWork environment, sales compensation, M&A postdeal support. My selection of the appropriate methods depends, among other things, on your corporate culture and the objectives of your project. The techniques used should enable you to live your processes independently and efficiently. In doing so, you will receive solution proposals that are based on profound knowledge of the market conditions paired with my innovative thinking.
PeopleXcellence
We believe in the “Power of People for Business Success”. In the current environment that means “Attract, Retain & Develop the Best”. Remuneration and talent development are key instruments for this. We aim to be the Enablers of your success! Our customers cover many industries and cultures.
Niko Wels
Niko Wels is a Compensation & Benefits consultant with more than 18 years of experience in the people business. For more than 15 years, he held various HR leadership positions in international industrial companies. He has extensive expertise in the design, implementation and optimisation of Total Rewards solutions for companies of different types, sizes and industries. His clients include international corporations as well as start-ups, scale-ups and NGOs. Niko has a depth of understanding of the challenges companies face in designing and implementing Total Rewards programmes. He is a dedicated and trusted advisor who provides professional and proactive counselling to his clients. He is committed to helping his clients achieve their goals by supporting them in developing a competitive Total Rewards strategy that attracts, motivates and retains talent. Niko is pragmatic, flexible and able to quickly adapt to his clients' needs.
PLAS S.A.
PLAS is an affiliate and shareholder of PLANET, Greece's leading management and project management consulting company. The firm collaborates extensively - both at national and international level - with leading firms, organizations and experts to deliver a broad portfolio of services - a significant part of which focuses on Human Capital Management. They play an important role in a number of high-profile strategic HR operations projects, supporting clients across the private and public sector.
Go Blue Inc.
Go Blue Inc. is a Caribbean Management Consulting and Training Company. We are a dedicated team of professionals who are committed to helping our clients create amazing value, deliver unsurpassed customer service excellence and doing what is required for the ultimate success of our clients. Our competences are in the areas of strategic planning, Organisational redesign and strategic realignment, Human Resource Solutions and Corporate Training.
Global HR Solutions
Global HR Solutions (GHRS) is a full spectrum HR company offering outsourcing, consulting, and technology to small and medium businesses. Since 2004 we have been working closely with organizations to improve their ability to perform and profit better and to enhance employee experience. Our clients lean on us for simple and cost-effective solutions in staffing, payroll, and compensation consulting. We make sure that our technology offerings are HR first, easy-to-use, and affordable. Gijo Mathew is the founder and Chief of services. He has significant experience in leadership hiring, HR service delivery, and project management.
Adept Systems
Adept Systems has been established since 1994 and provides a full range of advisory and management consultancy services. Over the years we have been trusted advisors to diverse clientele in organizational structuring, job analysis and grading, compensation and benefit, skills assessments, talent management, recruitment and human resource services. We have carried out specialised assignments for government departments, state corporations, private sector companies and a number of donor agencies in East and Southern Africa. We work to optimize the quality and efficiency of both human and management systems that are available in your organisation. We work alongside your staff to identify the strengths and weaknesses of current management systems, suggest improvements and assess the capacity of your staff. By studying the organization’s structure, workflow and volumes, we are able to assess the adequacy of staffing levels and recommend changes as appropriate.
Eligijus Kajieta
Eligijus Kajieta is a founder and principal consultant of the reward consulting firm based in Vilnius, Lithuania. He has 20 years of experience in human capital management. The past decade he was solely focusing on helping organizations to increase their effectiveness via aligned remuneration systems and clear job structures. He works with clients across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
P.O.D Advisory Sdn. Bhd.
P.O.D. Advisory is a consulting company in human resource management and business advisory encompassing the following specialisations:
P.O.D. has served clients since 1994 and has a team of experienced associate consultants with a track record for quality and timely delivery. Over the last 25 years, P.O.D. has advised some 300 clients who are multinationals, conglomerates, government-linked companies and large and medium-sized companies.
CAPFOR Mauritius
The CAPFOR Group is a leading international Strategic and Human Resources Consulting firm with offices in France and Africa.
CONSULTRAD
Consultrad is a regional Rewards consultancy firm specialized in delivering Compensation & Benefits solutions and training. From strategy design to execution, Consultrad provides direct, value-added technical and advisory support. We partner with clients to drive employee engagement and accelerate business growth by creating sustainable, market relevant rewards solutions. Services: Total Rewards Strategy, Compensation, Job Architecture, Employee Benefits. Telma Le Guen, founder of Consultrad, is a global certified Rewards specialist (GRP) with extensive strategic and operational C&B experience across Africa.
Pascale Paulsmeier
Pascale Paulsmeier is a registered Industrial Psychologist with the Health Professions Council in South Africa. She has a wide experience in strategic and operative Human Resources Management and Organisational Design across many industries. She is passionate about assisting organisations and people to grow to their fullest potential and become market leaders. She has developed a successful consulting firm and a psychological testing centre in Namibia.
Solidum Belonen en Functiwaardering
Solidum rewarding and job evaluation provides advice on the set up of organizations, job evaluation, remuneration issues and employment conditions.
Our mission is to recruit and retain the right employees for organizations by means of a good remuneration and terms of employment policy that does not lose sight of controlling wage costs.
Our core values:
Our interest and strength lies in supporting and advising people and organizations to achieve optimal value creation.
WORK4S - Bas van der Linden
Work4s supports organizations to obtain their results and goals more effective and efficient by building, developing and implementing a professional organization and a workforce that is flexible, fits their needs, is in line with internal and external developments. Work4s leads projects and provides consultancy and advice in a variety of areas:
Execution Edge Ltd
Execution Edge is an advisory and management consulting firm with strong capabilities and experience in the development and execution of strategy. Execution Edge partners with its clients to achieve success by providing value-driven financial and enterprise transformation solutions that cut across the various facets of businesses, governments and institutions. Execution Edge has deep market, industry, functional and technical expertise, strong business management skills, and reputation for leadership, strong relationships and professional networks. Execution Edges uses job evaluation to lay the groundwork for cost-efficient, fair and transparent compensation management, to support and challenge organisational design, to derive organisation specific career frameworks and to benchmark remuneration across organisations.
Talent Business Incubator STEP-UP
STEP-UP is a company for training, education and consulting, specialized in business and organizational development, leadership, management and human resources consulting. We offer support to the companies, specifically from the fast-growing industries, which operate in highly competitive global markets. Our trainings help the young candidates acquire appropriate business competences and soft skills and become ready for immediate inclusion in the working processes of the employer. We develop a comprehensive self-designed technology for attraction, identification, selection, development, placement, onboarding and retention of talents, which are delivered to the client companies.
Tharwah
Tharwah Human Resources is one of the top local Consulting and Training firms based in Saudi Arabia founded in 2012 to empower the potential of people and organizations through innovative HR solutions. Tharwah focuses on delivering its value proposition around solutions that touches the three key areas that impact performance; namely: Leadership, Talents and Organizations. Tharwah is proud to be partners with SHRM, KornFerry, Mercer, and CCL and now Gradar. Tharwah aims to bring the best global practices and systems delivered through deep local understanding.
EPEC
EPEC Human Resources is one of the leading local consulting companies in Saudi Arabia. Founded in 2016, the company prides itself on its mission - to lead Human Resources development in the region through data-driven best practice. EPEC delivers its value proposition around a suite of solutions including HR Governance and HR Data Analytics. EPEC Consulting is delighted to partner with companies like gradar as they aim to transform and reshape HR development in Saudi Arabia and beyond.
HR Fabrika
HR Fabrika is fresh new company, established in 2022 and located in Belgrade, Serbia. Important is that our team is strong with decades of experience in total together within various HR areas such as Talent Acquisition, Organizational Design, Rewards, Learning & Development, Payroll & HR Administration. We are aware that each company is an entity of its own and that it has different needs. For that reason, we approach each client and project individually, with a lot of knowledge and expertise. For us, each project is a new challenge and another step towards the goal of becoming your trusted partner. An individual approach in our work indicates our flexibility and promises a unique solution for each client. The only thing we will not negotiate about is quality. For us, quality is synonymous with every service we provide, and all of us at HR Fabrika believe that quality is the only way to achieving our mission - to have satisfied clients who, in turn, have satisfied employees.
HSC- human & sales consulting
HSC is a group of consultants working in the field of marketing and sales, HR management, process management and strategies. They develop modern solutions that help their clients build efficient processes. The solutions are based on modern practices and latest technology that can be adapted to the requirements of any organization.
Ignite Reward Consulting
Ignite Reward Consulting is a reward consultancy that offers a wide range of Total Rewards services across South Africa, the United Kingdom and Europe and is headed up by Carmen Arico. Carmen completed her BCom degree in Human Resources Management at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She has obtained a wealth of experience while working in the United Kingdom in regional reward management roles for global organisations across multiple sectors, and has experience in various reward projects, such as global job evaluation and job architecture projects. Carmen has also been awarded her Chartered Reward Specialist accreditation through the South African Reward Association (SARA) and is a member of SARA’s International Mobility Group Committee.
MPF Compensation Services
MPF Compensation Services is an expert in the area of Total Reward solutions: experienced, specialized, international, unique, offering a variety of strategic and operational support. The subject matter expertise spans the full range of compensation systems as well as corporate governance, compliance, performance management as well as human resources management.
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Sharpmania
Our company founded in 2013 consists of a specialized, efficient and committed team whose major asset is its proven experience of organizations changing dynamics. We specialize in providing Human Resources professional services and a high level of expertise. We act as partners during strategic changes that may drive to a reorganization of your activities and provide you, through a multidisciplinary approach, comprehensive, consistent and innovative solutions. All the Sharpmania consultants are seasoned HR professional with strategic, operational and hands-on HR experience. Sharpmania has extensive experience in developing and implementing new HR foundations, sourcing and recruiting, developing and implementing HR policies & processes, compensation & benefit strategies, people management strategies, training & development plans, organizational design, etc.
Lymra- N Partners Danışmanlık
Located in İstanbul, Ceyda Nustekin acts as the local representative of gradar as the founder of Lymra Consulting. Ceyda has been working in the world of HR since 2000 and has extensive experience across many different industry sectors via Gap, Cadbury Schweppes Kent, Willis Towers Watson (Watson Wyatt), Carrefour and C&A. As well as Human Capital Management her knowledge covers C&B best practice, benchmarking, market data analysis and job evaluation. Ceyda holds a BA degree in Economics from the English department of Istanbul University and is a Certified Practitioner Prosci CM.
Vance Frisch
Vance Frisch has over 20 years’ professional experience in HR, Reward and Job Evaluation, working across multiple industries and sectors. Offering cost-effective, bespoke solutions, he provides project management and learning support for organisations implementing job evaluation. Vance guides clients on job architecture, job families, pay and grading structure, and career path design. He delivers bulk job evaluations and salary recommendations where required. Focus is always on applying role evaluation and salary benchmarking consistently to ensure a culture of felt fairness, minimising Equal Pay risks.
CTeam
CTeam is one of Romania and Bulgaria’s leading Human Capital consultancies. They work with the gradar software to deliver meaningful HR projects for organisations of all shapes and sizes, with CTeam experts assisting organisations that want to build a clear job architecture. They deliver consulting services related to job evaluation, compensation and benefits, talent management and much more.
Talent Exchange
Talent Exchange is a people consultancy, shared service provider and innovative talent management platform based in the UK. They are a team of HR consultants (set up as a Community Interest Company) with years of experience supporting the voluntary sector. They have a proven track record of allowing charities to access professional support and create more enriching careers for their staff at low cost.
RSIM
RSIM is an independent Swiss Reward consultancy with global multi-industry experience, founded by Anne Béguin-Van Walleghem. Anne is a Compensation & Benefits expert with a passion to design and implement effective rewards strategies to attract and retain your best talents and win in the marketplace. She assists listed and private companies, providing advisory and interim services, spanning from the strategy diagnostic, to end to end implementation: all tailored to your specific needs, budget and aspirations.
Addium Consulting
Addium Consulting is a management consulting firm with a mission to assist organisations to harness human and organisational potential in order to achieve strategic and sustainable outcomes. They add value to individuals and institutions so that they can achieve differentiated results through the following solution sets: People & Organisation, Investment Advisory, Customer Experience, Data & Digitisation, Strategy Execution, and Monitoring & Evaluation.
StreSERT
StreSERT Integrated Limited, SIL is an African focused management consulting firm that partners with clients and stakeholders to create solutions that deliver significant impact and ultimately real and measurable success. They seek to be at the vanguard in changing the African narrative, helping unlock the enormous potential of the continent’s people, business and government - all through HR solutions.
ConsultRAD
ConsultRAD is a woman-owned total rewards consulting firm based in Mauritius and Mozambique delivering best-in-class Rewards Advisory & Development solutions to organisations operating around the world. Drawing on deep technical expertise, they provide comprehensive strategic and operational support to help clients solve compensation and benefits challenges, supporting people-centric organisations in their mission to build a culture of fair pay where everyone thrives.
Valdus
Valdus is a Professional Human Resources Organization which provides Innovative HR Solutions. Incorporated in 2010, with a start of just three people, they have now grown into one of Mauritius leading HR Management Companies managing the most complex HR projects for private companies and the government such as the Mauritius National ID Card Project. They assist clients with a range of customised HR Services, Processes, Programs and Practices into their daily operations.
Kathrin Krüger
As a Travel Guide in Employee Engagement and with 15 years broad HR Management expertise in Compensation & Benefits and Global Assignments, Kathrin supports employees and managers to create trustful, appreciative and attractive working cultures and make them sustainable. She works with HR Business Partners on a global scale with emphasis on Germany.
Anton Mayer
Anton is a well-regarded HR consulting in Germany available for in–person and remote engagements covering any of the following areas in German and English: Führungskräftetraining, Leadership, Stellenbewertung as a Service, Change Management, Moderation, Coaching, Stellenbewertung, Vergütungsmanagement, Compensation & Benefits, Personalmanagement, Personalentwicklung.
Ignite Reward Consulting
Ignite Reward Consulting is a boutique reward consultancy based in Lonehill, Gauteng, offering reward advisory services and technical expertise to organisations across South Africa, UK and Channel Islands. The company is headed up by Ignite Reward Consulting is headed up by Carmen Arico, a reward management expert with a B Com degree in Human Resources Management at the University of Pretoria. Her time working in the United Kingdom in regional reward management roles for global organisations has given her a vast knowledge base - and she has also recently been awarded her Chartered Reward Specialist accreditation through the South African Reward Association.
Work Imagined
Work Imagined is a consultancy run by Nichelle Appleby. She supports the improvement of Pay programs and advocates for healthy workplaces through Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) work. Nichelle is a native English speaker based in Berlin who can support you in the following ways. Consulting: As an Implementation Partner for gradar, Nichelle can provide training and implementation support for job architecture and compensation program development. Workshops: As a trained workshop facilitator, Nichelle creates custom workshops to help HR teams solve problems, make decisions, and generate ideas to implement HR strategy.
Gurus Human Resource Consultancy Group
Gurus Human Resource Consultancy Group is an ISO 27001 certified , Ministry of Labour Certified and legally registered Liberian Management firm providing contemporary services to national an international companies in compensation and benefit, human capital, Change Management, organization development, Learning and Development, HR Technology, PEO, EOR, Employment Law, Executive Search. We lead the way endowing with comprehensive solutions in the HR domain for growing and developed businesses or organizations. Gurus HR consulting Group also has the largest talent sourcing platform in Liberia where we source critical talents for big and small companies.
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