Reward and performance

Creating benefit arrangements that fit your culture and operating model

We design, refine and deliver benefit plans that work in practice — from pensions to wellbeing and risk cover.

• Gathering data and stakeholder feedback to define design options.
• Developing and testing detailed proposals with relevant specialists.
• Preparing communications, operational materials and governance.
• Supporting launch and ongoing review.

Building sustainable, evidence-based benefit strategies

We help you assess and reshape your benefits strategy to ensure competitiveness, clarity, strong governance and sustainable long-term outcomes.

• Assessing your current landscape and strategic drivers.
• Running a benefits “health check” to test competitiveness and effectiveness.
• Strengthening governance and benefit management toolkits.
• Setting clear, actionable options and implementation plans.

Practical support to meet new pay transparency requirements

We help you interpret and prepare for the EU Pay Transparency Directive through diagnostics, gap analysis and proportionate, workable compliance plans.

• Diagnostic review of readiness and exposure.
• RAG-rated assessment across pay reporting, gender pay and disclosure.
• Clear roadmap to compliance and communication.

Designing incentives that drive performance and align with business goals

We design and deliver short- and long-term incentive plans that link performance to results through practical, well-governed and effective implementation.

• Reviewing existing arrangements and stakeholder priorities.
• Developing and testing design options through collaborative workshops.
• Supporting operational planning, communications and governance.
• Managing launch and post-implementation review.

Integrated reward and people advisory through the deal cycle

HR and payroll is often overlooked or deprioritised in deal planning and execution, so we provide end-to-end people and reward support across mergers, acquisitions, divestments and other structural change programmes — aligned with LACE’s broader M&A and transformation capability.

Our support includes:

• Pre-deal and due diligence – assessing people-related risks and opportunities, including organisation design, leadership capability, reward, culture and governance.
• Deal execution – advising on separation or integration plans, ensuring reward, benefits and HR structures are ready for transition.
• Transformation leadership – interim programme support for senior HR leaders to design roadmaps, prioritise people workstreams and manage stakeholders across multiple markets.
• Post-deal optimisation – aligning operating models, pay and performance frameworks, and communication plans to support new business objectives.

Our team brings together experienced HR and payroll leaders, as well as technical reward specialists who have delivered complex integrations and separations in practice. We work seamlessly with LACE’s transformation, organisation design and workforce teams to ensure people issues are addressed with the same rigour as financial and operational ones.

Enhancing every stage of your annual reward and performance cycle

We help organisations strengthen annual reward and performance reviews through better design, planning, collaboration and data-driven decision-making.

• Setting objectives, scope and governance.
• Aligning budgets and pay frameworks with business priorities.
• Improving collaboration across HR, Finance and Communications.
• Advising on data analysis, reporting and post-review learning.

Embedding wellbeing as a core part of organisational performance

We develop practical wellbeing strategies that connect culture, benefits and people performance through measurable and sustainable actions.

• Reviewing your current wellbeing approach, culture and practices.
• Identifying strengths, risks and improvement opportunities.
• Developing frameworks, toolkits and governance.
• Creating action plans aligned with your wider people and benefits strategy.