For this iconic investment fund, which was involved in an acquisition to strengthen the footprint of one of its assets, we intervened to:

• Strategic considerations: source stakeholders (unions, politicians, authorities, internal stakeholders), set up the strategy for approaching them, sending out the right messages,
• In preparation for the offer: support the decision-making process (GoNoGo, exclusive offer, etc.) with a social portrait of the target to assess the HR and social risks and setting up an HR-employment strategy for the pre-binding offer improvment.

For this leading global industrial group faced with the need for a major multi-country and multi-activity reorganization to preserve its competitiveness and ensure its post-Covid rebound, we combined our HC expertise with T&L to:

• Prepare the reorganization: mobilize our multidisciplinary skills (labour law, economic/market data, Org. design, simulation, benchmarking, crisis management) to cover all financial, HR and legal aspects of the plan,
• Support the social process: support the negotiating team with a didactic program for staff representatives, employees and authorities, so that real social communication can be established, which paves the way for an action plan to support the change and ensure project adherence.

For this Talent Department in charge of an intra-group business merger project, we acted as a strengthened HR-social PMO to identify, analyze and then support the implementation of HR and employees-related projects:

• Consultation process
• Documentation for consultation
• Cost scenarios for social harmonisation
• Managerial support in change management
• Support for communications and cultural change
  

For this M&A department, which asked us to help them with the alignment of their post-deal acquisition strategy, our support was focused on:

• Preparing compensation policy alignment
• Defining executive packages
• Estimating the impact of HR and benefits alignment on the acquisition performance, ROI, acquisition strategy and duration

For this CFO who needed to ensure the financial aspects of a redundancy plan, our actuarial and social strategy consultants worked together to prepare the plan:

• Economic rationale and data base to justify the economic grounds
• Analysis of overall costs and their impact on projected sales/EBITDA
• Accounting allowance strategy, integrating the criteria laid down by the statutory auditor
• Cash-out plan for deploying the plan

For this HR department, which was involved in a reorganization in several EU countries, we provided a strengthened HR-social PMO in each phase of the project:

• Decision-making support in the choice of legal vehicle
• Support in the production of procedural deliverables
• Simulation of cost scenarios, preparation of social communication deliverables

Our PMO action focused on aligning actors and countries, and on the operational management of the project.