Leroy Merlin Group, one of the leading Do-It-Yourself retail chains with over 275 stores and 30,000 employees in France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Italy, Brazil, Russia and China has signed with MrTed Ltd. to utilize MrTed TalentLink as its global talent management platform.
For Leroy Merlin Group, the need for overall consistency with tailored local presence were critical requirements to the companyís global recruiting efforts. ìMrTed TalentLink is very well suited to Leroy Merlin Group and to the retail sector in general. It was important for us to maintain consistency and share best practices among our global shops. We also wanted our global shops to retain the integrity of their own local, cultural and linguistic needs. MrTed TalentLink was the only platform that met all of our requirements,î said Patrice Olivier, International HR Director for Leroy Merlin Group.
Leroy Merlin Group project managers were additionally impressed with the simplicity of the TalentLink rollout itself, another key point in their decision to chose MrTed Limited. Stephane Calmes, Director of Human Resources for Leroy Merlin France, ìIT projects in the retail sector tend to be overly complicated, consuming valuable time and resources. We are choosing MrTed TalentLink because it is not supposed to require an army of engineers to accomplish!î
MrTed TalentLink version 2.1 allows Leroy Merlin Groupís retail outlets to screen, assess, hire and share candidates across the global organization creating a collaborative environment with multiple benefits: the Group can now empower its local managers with personalized, online staffing tools which allows best practices to be shared across the global organization. Each retail outlet now has its own recruiting and resourcing solution that when implemented, ROI is quickly materialized with enhanced local, in-store effectiveness and a heightened level business intelligence that will positively impact the organization. Easy analysis and reporting capabilities provided by MrTed TalentLink also allow the local outlets to better review and thus improve performance while giving corporate the information they require to improve overall planning, effectiveness and profitability.
MrTed TalentLink officially went live on December 1, 2003 at Leroy Merlinís 80 shops in France. Rollouts for business units in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Brazil are on schedule for 2004.
Leroy Merlin goes live with MrTed TalentLink
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