Case study | People and performance

Creating a global reward framework through salary and benefits benchmarking

Bringing consistency, transparency and confidence to Restek’s global reward

Client overview

Business type

Manufacturing (chemical sector)

Locations

The UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, China, Japan

Employees

500

Key outcomes

Salary and benefits benchmarking completed for 7 countries and 58 roles
Improved consistency and equity across international reward practices
Clear visibility of market competitiveness for both pay and benefits

The challenge

Over time, each of Restek’s locations had developed its own salary structures and benefits approaches, making it difficult to understand overall competitiveness or ensure fairness across markets. This meant leaders lacked a single, trusted view of how salaries and benefits compared across countries, limiting their ability to make confident reward decisions.

Restek asked NFP to establish a clear, data‑driven foundation for salary benchmarking and benefits benchmarking, one that respected local market conditions while supporting a coherent global reward approach.

Key challenges included:

Inconsistent salary approaches across countries
Limited visibility of benefits competitiveness by market
Difficulty comparing total reward packages internationally
Increased risk of inequity and retention pressure

Megan Byrne
Organisational Transformation and People Services Consultant

The solution

NFP partnered with Restek to deliver a structured salary and benefits benchmarking programme, providing a consistent, market‑aligned view of total reward across the organisation’s international footprint.
Our approach focused on accuracy, comparability and practical insight, ensuring benchmarking outputs could be confidently used to inform decisions.

NFP delivered:

Benchmarking salaries of 44 core roles across seven core countries to highlight where roles were aligned to market, under‑market or over‑market.
Benchmarking benefits provision across each country, allowing Restek to understand how its benefits compared locally and internationally to ensure they remained competitive in all their locations.
Translating benchmarking data into clear, visual insights and working sessions with HR and senior leaders. These sessions helped prioritise where action was most needed and ensured benchmarking findings were properly understood in a business context.

The results

For their organisation

Consistent global reward view

Established a single, consistent view of salary and benefits across seven countries.

Improved reward decision-making

Increased confidence in planning and budgeting through clearer reward insights.

Visibility of market risks

Provided clarity on attraction and retention risks across different markets.

For their people

Greater transparency and fairness

Improved transparency and perceived fairness in reward decisions.

Clearer reward understanding

Helped employees understand how reward is positioned locally and globally.

Increased trust in decisions

Built greater trust in how salary and benefits decisions are made.

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