NextHR Consulting: Clients

Cabot Corporation
Cabot Corporation, based in Boston, MA, produces specialty chemicals and performance materials for a global market. The company is the world's #1 producer of carbon black, a reinforcing and pigmenting agent used in tires, inks, cables, and coatings. Cabot has 4,400 employees, with more than half working outside North America.

As part of our 2-day Best Practices engagement, we helped Cabot optimize the compensation management system that they had just acquired, as well as provide them a methodology to prioritize their implementation and initiatives.

Cendant
Cendant Corporation was the leading multi-line travel, hospitality, and real estate franchiser in the world, with 90,000 employees and 30 divisions worldwide. Avis, Century 21, Ramada, Orbitz, and Jackson Hewitt are some of the well known brands that were part of their portfolio of companies. Having expanded from 10,000 employee and 10 divisions to 90,000 employees and 30 divisions in a span of three years, Cendant required highly scalable approaches to their talent management processes and systems.

We designed and implemented global compensation and succession planning strategies, processes, and systems to support their growth from 10,000 employees to 90,000 employees and from 10 to nearly 30 global business units. Performed needs assessment, process analysis/design, business requirements analysis, negotiation and documentation, data modeling, project management, system design and training activities. This engagement delivered integrated succession and compensation planning processes and systems for a highly decentralized organization.

Cytec
New Jersey-based Cytec Industries is a global specialty chemicals and materials company that develops, manufactures and sells value-added products. Cytec has approximately 7,000 employees in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.

We designed and managed the development and implementation of a web-based global compensation planning system, delivering an integrated platform for managing merit, market equity, promotion, bonus and stock option recommendations, approvals and reporting. Tasks included business process/workflow analysis, requirements gathering, negotiation and documentation, project management and testing activities.

H&M
H&M is a Swedish fashion designer and retailer with an expanding global presence. H&M operates more than 1,500 stores in about 25 countries and has 68,000 employees.

As part of our 2-day Best Practices engagement we provided insight on what aspects of their HR service delivery model they need to focus on.

Susquehanna International Group (SIG)
Since its inception in 1987, the Philadelphia-based Susquehanna International Group of Companies (SIG) has grown from a trading firm on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange to one of the largest privately held financial institutions in the world. With more than 1,500 employees worldwide, SIG sits at the helm of the latest trends and developments in trading and market making, institutional sales, research, private equity, venture capital, and investment banking. SIG has offices across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

We delivered an HR services capability assessment as part of an HRIS implementation initiative. Designed integrated processes for hiring, onboarding, employee events, payroll and offboarding that leveraged the new HRIS’ capabilities. As a follow-on project, we desgined and implemented a compensation management process and tools that reduced the Compensation group's administrative efforts by 75% and FTE support required by 50%.

Sprint
Sprint, a leading global telecommunications provider with 70,000 employees, wanted to find a vendor partner to automate its performance management, succession planning, and career development processes. We did a comprehensive 6-month Software Evaluation and Selection project that included:

• Defining requirements based on feedback from all stakeholders.
• Developing a detailed RFP.
• Identifying potential vendor partners.
• Developing a detailed demo script and facilitating vendor demonstrations.
• Negotiating the contract.
• Preparing and presenting final business case to Sprint executives.

White Mountains Re
White Mountains Re is a global leader in reinsurance with a long track record of success. As of December 31, 2007, White Mountains Re had $2.1 billion in shareholders' equity and $1.1 billion in net written premium.

We designed an operations strategy and roadmap for the HR department of this global reinsurance organization. Performed compensation, talent management and transactional HR process analysis and design, business case development, system vendor selection and a technology implementation plan that implements an HR service delivery model to support a growing business.