Reward lead
CFO
Hiring manager
The employee

Transforming HR with datarewardtechnologyscience

Leading organizational success with unmatched Total Rewards expertise. Advisory, training, technology and analytics — built to work together.

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What a Total Rewards framework usually covers 10 components
  • 01Pay philosophy
  • 02Total Rewards strategy
  • 03Salary bands and grading
  • 04Salary ranges
  • 05Pay premiums
  • 06Pay differentiation
  • 07Incentive plan
  • 08Rewards communication
  • 09Wellbeing programmes
  • 10People and pay analytics
We work across All ten from design through to handover
80+Years of global strategic rewards

What we build for companies.

Talent is the constraint on most business plans, and HR teams are asked to solve it with tools built for a slower market. We bring the reward architecture — grades, ranges, midpoint progression — and the technology to keep it current.

  • 01

    Change management and HR transformation

    Global HR and reward transformation projects, from short interventions through to multi-year strategic frameworks.

  • 02

    Multi-industry experience

    Pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, health, technology, e-commerce and banking — and the network of advisors that comes with them.

  • 03

    Global and regional HR experience

    Total rewards, performance management, talent management, acquisition and analytics, delivered for Fortune 100 and 500 companies.

  • 04

    Total rewards leadership

    Eighty years of combined strategic rewards experience, leading reward functions rather than advising from outside them.

The team

Your success starts with our expert team.

Practitioners who have run reward functions inside global businesses, not consultants describing them from outside.

Sajjad Parmar

Sajjad Parmar

CEO & Founder

Two decades of global HR in leadership roles at Unilever, GSK and eBay — most recently Head of Total Rewards for International Markets. He founded The Talent Accelerator to give companies of any size the reward structures usually reserved for the Fortune 500.

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Cherie Toh

Cherie Toh

Consulting & Product Head

A self-described reward geek. Years at large multinationals across banking, pharmaceuticals and technology have given her a way of looking at compensation that finds the depth and detail others usually miss.

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Izzah Zaineb

Izzah Zaineb

Head of Performance Institute

Builds Employer Value Propositions that attract talent and shape the culture they arrive into, with strategic initiatives that lift a company's profile in a competitive market. Her work spans technology, finance, healthcare and manufacturing.

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Our advisors

Senior people leaders who challenge our thinking and keep our practice honest against what large organisations actually need.

Hark Kah Tan

Hark Kah Tan

Head of People Operations, Singapore — Grab

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Solutions

Tools for the questions you get asked most.

What should we pay them, how big is this job, and what is the market actually doing right now.

What should we offer?

Total Offer Modeler

Build a complete offer — base, incentive, benefits, sign-on — and see where it lands against the range and against the people already doing the job, before you send it.

It turns the hiring-manager conversation from negotiation into arithmetic, without a compensation specialist in the room for every requisition.

  • Internal equity check
  • Total value view
How the modeler works
Offer built in 4 min
The Total Offer Modeler showing an offer built against a salary range
Total Offer Modeler
How big is this job?

Job Evaluation Tool

Size roles against a consistent set of factors, so two jobs at the same grade genuinely carry the same weight — internally, and against the market.

The output is a job architecture your leadership can read, and one that holds up when someone asks why their title sits where it does.

  • Factor scoring
  • Grade mapping
  • Structure reporting
How job sizing works
Defensible grades
The Job Evaluation Tool showing factor scoring for a role
Job Evaluation Tool
What is the market doing?

Real-Time Market Benchmark

Live market data on the roles you are actually hiring for, instead of a survey that closed nine months ago and arrived as a spreadsheet.

Match a job, read the percentile spread, and take a current number into the pay review rather than an aged one adjusted by guesswork.

  • Live data points
  • Percentile spread
  • Job matching
How benchmarking works
Updated continuously
The Real-Time Market Benchmark tool showing live salary data
Real-Time Market Benchmark
Reward Advisory

Our approach to Total Rewards.

Nine areas we work in. Most projects start with one and pull in two or three others.

Compensation

Fixed pay, short-term and long-term incentives, structured to improve retention and motivation through varied recognition plans.

Benefits

A spectrum from insurance to medical cover and workplace perks, arranged so employee care is comprehensive rather than piecemeal.

Reward communication & training

Getting reward systems understood. Dissemination and education so employees can see the value of what they already receive.

Organizational design

Reorganizations, restructuring and precise job evaluation, streamlining how the organisation is put together.

Analytics

Data-driven insight across HR operations and payroll, so strategic decisions rest on evidence rather than instinct.

Performance management

Frameworks for ongoing assessment, with specific initiatives for recognising and keeping top talent.

Wellness

A holistic view covering physical, emotional, financial and community wellbeing rather than a single benefit line.

Mergers & acquisitions

Frameworks for the complexity of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, keeping reward aligned through integration.

Global mobility

Structured plans for long- and short-term assignments, transfers and commuting arrangements across borders.

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Performance Institute

Build the skills in your own team.

Develop the most in-demand HR skills with practitioners who have run these functions. Delivered in-house or as open cohorts.

  • Total Rewards

    Total Reward Masterclass · Reward 101 Training · Reward Certification

  • Talent Upskilling

    Employer Branding Champions · Personal Branding for EB Visibility · Assertive Communication · Self-Awareness & Professional Identity

  • Employer Brand Storytelling

    Storytelling & Communications · Talent Attraction Strategy · Leadership Storytelling · Resilience Building

  • Talent Management

    Talent Management Workshop · Strategic Decision Making in HR · Crucial Conversations Toolkit

  • People Analytics & AI

    Introduction to People Analytics · AI in HR

  • EB Strategic Alignment

    EB101 · Brand Strategy & 12-Month Roadmap

  • Culture

    Culture Alignment & Execution · Employee Lifecycle Strategy

  • Organizational Identity

    EVP Strategy & Architecture across career, culture and total rewards

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By the numbers

Where the work has taken us.

Clients, training and tooling to date.

New The Performance Institute is now open for enrolment

01 — Clients

The companies we work with.

Fifty clients
0+Clients
7Markets
11Industries

Each square is a client.

02 — Training & development

Practitioner-led training, delivered in person.

85% training satisfaction 85% SATISFACTION
0Professionals trained
60Training days
22Learning programmes
03 — Compensation technology

Built in-house, run on one platform.

3Live tools
1In development

A first-of-its-kind compensation product tech stack.

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