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Hannah Müller· Steinbach Industrie
PinnedWe went live with the final region last month, so I finally have the distance to write this up honestly. Three years, 34,000 employees, 19 countries. What worked: Starting with…
Isla Ferreira· Kestrel Aerospace
Mid-sized logistics company in Poland, about 1,300 employees. Our framework has an individual track and a management track that begins at level 5. We have 64 team leads with…
Julia Ibrahim· Steinbach Industrie
Manufacturer of building materials in Germany and Austria, about 4,700 employees. A reorganisation this summer merged two regions, and as a result 23 managers now have roles that…
Victor Ueda· Independent
We are a Danish medical technology company with about 2,200 employees in the Nordics, Germany and the US. Our new framework has eight levels on two tracks and the full criteria…
Elif Alvarez· Kestrel Aerospace
Software company, US and India, about 1,600 employees. Our titles are tied to grades, so a 'Senior' or 'Lead' in the title means a specific grade. Over the past 18 months the…
Ewan Walsh· Aurora Hospitality
I joined a Swedish industrial group last year to lead reward for South America, about 1,750 employees in Brazil. Global is rolling out a catalogue of 380 jobs with standard…
Ben Haddad· Tidewater Utilities
I have now worked on job architecture at four employers, most recently a telecoms group in Spain and Portugal with about 8,000 people, and each time the same thing happened. The…
Dalia Lindqvist· Silverline Media
Consulting engineering firm in the UAE and India, around 1,900 people. Our framework has clean internal titles by level, such as Engineer II and Senior Engineer. Client-facing…
Mateo Rasmussen· Independent
Most of what is written about job architecture assumes a professional workforce. I work for a grocery retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium with about 21,000 employees, and 80%…
Nina Vargas· Steinbach Industrie
A cautionary tale from a software and services company in India, about 3,900 employees in Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai. Leadership wanted something visible for employees quickly,…
Petra Dubois· Meridian Health Systems
We're a UK-headquartered industrial software company, about 2,100 people, and in March we completed the purchase of a 340-person business in Poland and the Czech Republic. They…
Lena Lindqvist· Pinehurst Foods
I manage reward operations for a pharmaceutical distributor in Brazil and Argentina, about 5,600 employees and 740 distinct job descriptions. We used to run a full review every…
Victor Ueda· Independent
There is a lot of enthusiasm for skills-based everything, so here is what happened when we tried it. We are a professional services firm in Singapore and Malaysia, about 2,800…
Ben Haddad· Tidewater Utilities
After reading several hundred appeals and promotion cases at a German automotive supplier of about 12,000 employees, I've concluded that most disputes about levels are really…
Liam Chen· Pinehurst Foods
I joined a fintech in London as the first reward hire four months ago. We are about 450 people, expecting 650 by the end of next year. The founders set up six levels when the…
Ulla Iversen· Aurora Hospitality
Sharing this because I suspect we are not alone. I look after reward for a Canadian insurer with about 5,200 employees. In 2024 we consolidated 62 job families into 23, with…
Ximena Pereira· Silverline Media
I run reward for the European arm of a US-owned packaging manufacturer, about 3,800 employees, 1,100 of them in Germany. Head office is rolling out global titles tied to levels:…
Zoe Pereira· Steinbach Industrie
I cover Asia Pacific reward for a European asset manager, about 2,600 staff globally and 420 in Singapore, Hong Kong and Mumbai. The new global framework reserves 'Vice President'…
Amara Larsen· Silverline Media
I'm with an energy utility in Australia, around 4,300 employees plus roughly 900 contractors and labour-hire workers at any time, many in roles identical to permanent ones.…
Colin Ibrahim· Halcyon Financial Group
We are a food manufacturer headquartered in the US Midwest, about 9,000 employees across North America and Mexico. A two-year project to build our job architecture finishes in…
