Client profile
The foreign-trade arm of a Chinese A-share listed manufacturer, with operating entities in several EU member states and a business in expansion.
Shared challenges
- Material differences in national labour law made one headquarters policy impossible to apply unchanged.
- Recruitment, contracts, pay and performance were dispersed across local offices, without a single headquarters view.
- Overseas authority and approval limits lacked written rules, concentrating risk at the first dispute or audit.
Our approach
- Embedded an HRBP in the European organisation to cover workforce planning, role architecture and hiring.
- Reviewed employment contracts country by country, localised policies and aligned performance and reward systems.
- Supported training, employee relations, annual people analytics and national salary research.
- Coordinated local labour advisers, practising lawyers and accounting professionals through one client interface.
Outcomes
- Group talent standards and approvals became executable local role structures and policy documents.
- European workforce-cost definitions were aligned for cross-country comparison and budgeting.
- Employment contracts and labour documents received a structured compliance review.
- Headquarters gained continuous visibility over its European teams.