Reward
Build pay, grading and incentive arrangements that support your business goals and help you attract and retain the people you need.
- Reward strategy, pay and grading
- Incentives and executive reward
- Remuneration Committee support
Independent Reward & HR consultancy
Reward and HR consulting
Senior-led from
start to finish
Work directly with experienced specialists to solve your reward, global mobility and strategic HR challenges — from the first conversation through to delivery.
Supporting HR and business leaders across the UK and Europe
Who you see
is who you get
The experts you meet
are the experts who deliver
Some of our clients
Our expertise
Expert support for
your next business challenge.
Whether you need a stronger reward framework, a better approach to international mobility or experienced HR leadership, we bring the right expertise to your team.
Global Mobility
Make international moves work for your people and your organisation, with practical policies, reward arrangements and relocation support.
- Mobility strategy and policies
- International reward
- Relocation and HR infrastructure
Interim HR
Add experienced HR leadership and delivery capacity when your team needs support through change, a leadership gap or a demanding project.
- Interim HR leadership
- HR operations and projects
- UK and multinational assignments
Sales Reward
Align sales incentives with your business goals, with arrangements that are clear, motivating and practical to manage.
- Sales incentive design
- Commission structures
- Performance measures
Financial Services Reward
Shape reward arrangements for financial services businesses, balancing performance, governance and the needs of your people.
- Reward frameworks
- Incentive arrangements
- Reward governance
Strategic Workforce Planning
Understand the people and skills your organisation will need, and build a practical plan to support its future direction.
- Future workforce needs
- Skills and capability planning
- Workforce priorities
Employee Benefits
Create a benefits offering that reflects what your people value and supports your wider reward strategy.
- Benefits strategy and review
- Employee value proposition
- Benefits communication
Organisational Change
Support your people through change, with clear structures, practical planning and a focus on making new ways of working stick.
- Organisation design
- Change planning
- People and implementation support
Leadership & Organisational Development
Develop the leadership, capability and ways of working your organisation needs to deliver its ambitions.
- Leadership development
- Team effectiveness
- Organisational capability
Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestments HR
Bring the people considerations into your transaction, from early planning through to integration or separation.
- People considerations
- Integration and separation
- Reward and HR alignment
Start-ups’ & Disruptors’ Reward
Build a reward approach that fits your stage of growth and helps you attract the people you need as your business develops.
- Reward for growing businesses
- Pay and incentive design
- Employee attraction and retention
Interim Reward & Benefits
Add experienced reward and benefits support when you need extra capacity, specialist skills or cover during a period of change.
- Interim reward expertise
- Benefits support
- Project delivery and cover
Client experience
Expertise that earns trust
Some examples of the challenges our clients have asked us to help solve:
TalkTalk
Sales incentives aligned with a new strategy
Independent advice and flexible support to redesign a sales commission scheme.
Sales RewardEV Metals Group
Reward for newly acquired UK operations
A compensation and benefits structure, including short- and long-term incentives, delivered to agreed deadlines.
RewardPharmanovia
HR support through business change
Experienced support with organisation structure, change management and M&A projects.
HR & ChangeIt was great to have a dedicated team to discuss ideas and to challenge me!
senior expertise
The MCR approach
The people you meet
are the people who deliver
Our inverted-pyramid model puts experienced specialists at the centre of every assignment. You work directly with senior people who understand the decisions you face.
Experience inside the business
Our associates bring consulting expertise and experience in senior in-house roles.
Support shaped around you
Consultancy, interim management or a combination, matched to your needs.
Advice you can put into practice
Practical recommendations with the expertise to support delivery.
We combine deep technical expertise in all areas of reward with an ability to cut through complexity and keep things simple. Our approach helps our clients to recruit and retain talented people and leads to a positive and engaged workforce by ensuring that reward is fair, affordable and simple to communicate. Our Reward Consultants can support you with:
In today's tech-driven world, it is critical to boost your sales team with effective sales reward strategies by making sure your sales incentives match your business goals to gain a competitive edge. Our Sales Reward Consultants are experts in:
Companies are increasingly choosing MCR because they want unbiased advice, flexibility and better value from their remuneration advisors. Our Financial Services Reward Specialists have supported Board Level Remuneration Committees and successfully navigated the complex Financial Services regulatory environment.
We are able to ‘connect the dots’ between business results and appropriate compensation outcomes and can guide you through and provide solutions for: Overarching Reward Strategy & Frameworks, Reward, Incentives & Retention, Governance & Compliance and Change Management & Implementation.
Strategic Workforce Planning is arguably more important today than ever before, and there is huge scope for HR to play a defining role in helping to shape business responses, model future talent demand and supply and bridge workforce gaps. Our Strategic Workforce Planning Consultants deliver strategic workforce planning using our proven framework and the way that we apply the framework varies to reflect differences in organisational strategy and size and the level of workforce planning already in place. We specialise in:
A successful employee benefit plan is vital for keeping employees happy, attracting new ones, fostering wellbeing and supporting diversity and inclusion. Our Employee Benefits Consultants bring a combination of international consultancy and senior practitioner experience to the creation, implementation and development of benefit strategies. Our areas of expertise include:
Global Mobility experts are essential for navigating the increasing diversity in destinations, assignment types, and reasons for moving. International mobility is no longer limited to major corporations, as individuals are taking the initiative to pursue new roles abroad. In response to this evolving landscape, MCR’s Global Mobility Consultants play a crucial role in developing and implementing more flexible policies and practices for our clients. We specialise in:
Find out more about the other Reward, Organisational Effectiveness and Interim Management services we offer:
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MCR provides a service that’s shaped entirely around your needs.