Their challenge
Wellcome is a global charitable foundation with around 1,000 employees supporting research, policy, culture and investment activities worldwide. As the organisation grew, legacy job evaluation processes, unclear grading structures and inconsistent role alignment made it difficult to compare roles, support career progression and provide transparency for employees. Like many charities, the Wellcome Trust had grown organically with siloed roles and without a joined-up approach. Its HR database was old and lacking accuracy and the evaluation system being used was outdated, resulting in a grading framework that wasn’t clear or transparent. They needed a better way to understand and compare roles in different areas, and to show employees how they could move through and across the business.Our solution
Using Evaluate as the foundation for a new job architecture, Innecto partnered with Wellcome to design a simplified and transparent pay grading framework. By evaluating roles and validating outcomes across the organisation, we established clear internal alignment while creating a consistent language that helped employees and managers better understand role levels and career pathways.The outcome
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Developed a simplified and transparent grading framework that could be shared confidently with employees.
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Improved consistency and confidence in role alignment across diverse functions and specialisms.
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Created clearer distinctions between job levels using accessible and easy-to-understand language.
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Enabled greater transparency around career progression and more consistent decision-making across the organisation.
Client feedback
The great thing about Evaluate is its simplicity. It gave us a simple structure but more flexibility and helped us move towards better Pay Transparency, which was important to us given our diversity and inclusion priorities. For our people, Evaluate has helped bring greater clarity around how pay rates are derived, and the comfort that they are paid a fair amount compared with other, similar roles. For managers, it has helped bring structure to conversations around pay, and a clearer framework for progression by allowing them to show what people need to do in order to move to the next level.
