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Our services

What we do

Four disciplines. One operating system for people.

Rewards

Global Total Rewards & Executive Compensation

Pay is the loudest thing your company says about itself, and most scaling organizations say it by accident. A senior hire in Singapore gets benchmarked against a US pay band. A promotion happens into a level that was never defined. A bonus plan rewards activity instead of outcomes. None of it is malicious, it’s what happens when comp decisions get made deal by deal instead of system by system. Meridian builds the architecture first, job levels, salary structures, banding, and benchmarking that hold together across functions and geographies, then designs the executive and performance pay on top of it, so every dollar you pay is doing something on purpose.

Job design and job levelling
Design, review, or redesign of salary structures and banding
Competitive salary banding and structures, engineered for pay equity
Performance-based pay aligned to organizational goals

Compensation benchmarking

Core HR

Fractional HR Services

Somewhere between “we don’t need an HR department yet” and “we need a Chief People Officer” is a long, expensive stretch most companies handle badly, usually by handing it to an operations lead in their spare time. Policies get written after the incident that made them necessary, not before. Culture drifts. Engagement gets measured by vibes in a Slack channel instead of data. Meridian embeds as your fractional HR function, the strategy, the policy, the brand, the engagement, the learning infrastructure, run by people who’ve owned this function full-time before, at a fraction of the cost and none of the ramp-up.

Policy management and advisory
Creating a talent brand to attract diverse talent
Creating an employee engagement agenda
Creating learning and development infrastructure
People and HR strategy
Employer value proposition
Purpose and culture activation
Employee communication strategy
Employee engagement and wellbeing
Change management
Understanding your employee morale

Retention strategy

Expansion & M&A

Global Expansion & M&A Integration

Growth through new geographies and growth through acquisition fail for the same underrated reason: nobody planned the people side with the same rigor as the deal side. A term sheet closes in weeks; a compliant payroll setup in a new country can take months if you start late. Two merging companies rarely share the same job architecture, benefits, or culture and pretending they do is how you lose the talent you just paid to acquire. Meridian runs the HR due diligence, builds compliant infrastructure market by market, and manages culture and retention through the transition, so your expansion plan and your people plan move at the same speed.

HR due diligence and workforce integration for cross-border M&A
Compliant HR infrastructure as you expand into new countries
Local employment law, payroll, and benefits setup for international hires
Culture alignment and talent retention through post-merger transitions

Global mobility advisory across multiple jurisdictions

Talent

Talent Management

The org chart that works at fifty people will not survive contact with five hundred, not because your people got worse, but because the plan for developing and replacing them never scaled with the headcount. Most companies discover their succession gap the day someone resigns, and their leadership gap the day someone gets promoted into a role they were never coached for. Meridian builds the workforce plan, the leadership pipeline, the succession bench, and the performance system before you need them and levels up your internal HR team’s capability along the way, so the muscle stays after we leave.

Strategic workforce planning
Leadership development
Succession planning
Performance management

HR staff capability enhancement

How we work

Three moves. No hand-off, no hourly clock-watching.

Chart

Chart the course

We don’t start by asking what you need. We ask where you’re trying to be in 12–24 months, then audit your current HR landscape against it — comp, infrastructure, geography, deal pipeline, to find the closest shark to the boat.

Build

Build the infrastructure

Salary bands, job architecture, market entry playbooks, succession frameworks, we build systems, not one-off deliverables. Then we train your team to run them, so the process outlives the project.

Operate

Hold the line

With systems in place, we own execution, automating what can be automated, running what can’t. Ongoing HR, in every market you operate in, without you managing it day to day.