Leadership Team
HR90 Degrees consulting is a professional HR consulting company that offers end to end HR services. The company has been co-founded by 2 partners.
Zac Thomas is the CEO and Co-Founder of the company. Zac has got over 25 years of HR experience in India, GCC, North Africa, Central Asia, Turkey and UK having worked with some of the big Local, regional and international corporations as HR No.1. Zac’s experience spans over several sectors including FMCG, Manufacturing, Retail, Software and Consulting. He is an engineer by training with an MBA in Leadership from UK.
In this venture, we have several CEOs and senior HR practitioners as advisors and mentors.
Our Mission
At HR90Degrees, our mission is to connect with business as a strategic partner in the field of Human resources and provide end-to-end HR solutions with highest quality and standards in a sustainable way. The theme ‘Take the Right turn’ is an integral part of our business enabling organizations and talents to take the right decisions to achieve their long term goals.
Our Relevance
Despite the Global downturn, businesses in the Middle East have managed to weather the storm and even consolidate in some cases. Given the region’s resilience and ability to survive the crisis, many companies have started considering more investment in the region.
The region has been witnessing an increase in population and this combined with the spurt in commercial growth has put enormous pressure on companies to hunt for Talent. Companies in the region are always on the look out to get on board exceptional talent and also to retain them.
It is in this context that offerings from HR90 Degrees make sense. Our expertise in resourcing for the difficult markets and roles, combined with extensive HR back office support as well as strategic diagnostic services would make us a preferred partner to any company - irrespective of size – who is contemplating to gain a better Return on Investment (RoI) on their HR spend.
Our extensive experience in executive search services will help in finding the right candidates for you at board/executive levels
Our Association with leading regional partners enables us to provide a quick turnaround on all professional and techno-managerial roles.
Our partnership with leading providers of psychometric assessment tools will help you make an informed decision in terms of the most suitable candidate
a. Help businesses to identify long term goals
b. Help to define milestones and change plans
c. Hand hold in transition management
d. Identify saving opportunities and track them
a. Enables organizations to do a complete health check to find out the robustness in terms of cost, productivity and alignment to strategy
b. Recommend and Implement any corrective action needed in collaboration with the HR/ Business teams
a. Design the optimal organization aligned to company strategy
b. Design Overhead Optimization Programs
a. Support for new organizations to design HR from scratch
b. Interim support for organizations to manage transition HR difficulties
a. Train management on Leadership concepts
b. Help draw up development plan for high potential managers
c. Conduct Assessment / Development center to identify gaps/development needs
a. Support for new organizations to design HR from scratch
b. Interim support for organizations to manage transition HR difficulties
a. Create best in class employer branding to enhance company’s brand recognition so as to attract the best talent
a. Best in class and industry relevant Career and succession planning
b. Talent attraction and retention strategies
c. Manpower planning including job evaluation / job grading
a. Introduce pre-employment on boarding solutions
b. Models for enhanced employee engagement
c. Training and development program design
d. Grievance handling and IR support strategies
a. Design industry relevant compensation strategies
b. Design competitive and cost – neutral incentive schemes to enhance retention and productivity
c. Support to harmonize existing open ended Comp & Ben schemes to more predictable defined liability schemes
Design robust performance management systems with KPIs appropriate for the life cycle stage of the organization ( Startup / Growth / Stabilization/ Project)
Link salary and incentives to performance system
a. Host company’s on-boarding / HR policies on own portal / cloud
b. Enhance learning experience for employees through e-learning / customized learning management system
c. Support creation of content for LMS
a. HR90D can act as your company’s HR department by taking ownership of all your processes and take away most of your administrative time, allowing you to focus on key business issues. A Service Level Agreement (SLA) will be put in place to ensure highest customer satisfaction.
a. We can take away your payroll processing troubles through an outsourced support model.
If you answer any of the following questions YES, then there is an opportunity in your business that we can advise you on
1. Do you have a higher than normal attrition/staff turnover rate?
If you are 2% or more above your industry and country average, then it is worth looking at the root cause. Any regrettable loss will cost the company upwards of 6M salary
2. Do you spend more than 5% of your revenue turnover on Employment costs ?
This is an accepted industry norm. If you spend more, worth re-looking at your cost mix
3. If you are a small business and you struggle to cope with managing your HR back office services?
Time to leave it to professionals to handle it with a Service Level Agreement (SLA)
4. Do you have an issue with keeping records of current and past employees and issuing letters/ references?
Its about time you considered automating the whole process. We can help you do this and reduce the administrative hassles significantly
5. Do you receive not so great feedback on your internal customer (employee) opinion surveys?
6. If you are operating in a unionized environment, are you getting the best value from your negotiations / agreements with the Unions?
7. Do you have any open ended liabilities in your compensation structure?
Predictability is the best way to manage your total costs of employment. We can help you structure your compensation to get the best value for your money and still have a win-win situation with your employees
8. Do you sometimes feel that you are not getting the best value out of your organization structure and its people?
It’s about time that you checked if your structure follows your strategy or is your strategy following your structure?
In summary, here’s why you should consider us
Rich and Diverse experience of partners / directors in multi sectors and geographies
We are a ONE STOP SHOP for all your HR needs
We have strategic alliances with multiple partners across the region.
Through our association with these partners we will be able to leverage our partners' extensive experience and local knowledge across various industry sectors for our customers, creating enhanced value for our services.
Our Strategic Partner in India
SimplyHR Solutions LLP D-20, Golf View Apartments, Saket, New Delhi-110017. Phone No. : (+91)9650590202, 9650690202. Email: contact@simplyhr.in Website : www.simplyhr.in
Our Strategic Partner for European Markets
Registered office Address: 2nd Floor Hygeia House, 66 College Road Harrow, Middlesex HA1 1BE Phone: +44 020 8861 7556 Email :contact@davenporthr.com Website: www.davenporthr.com
Call or write to us to conduct a free diagnostic in collaboration with your HR Team. It is like an internal audit. We could tell you that things are absolutely fine or that you may have to make a few actions to fine tune your strategy and in some cases make a 90 degree turn. But we will be there to guide you…and what more; we can even work with you on a success fee so that you only pay for what you gain.
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