17.9K
employees across 38 operating companies and 31 manufacturing facilities
2,000+
Candidates assessed every year on the same Wave-based standard worldwide
60+ HR professionals
accredited across the Netherlands, America and Singapore
hiring and development activity spread across several assessment partners, with no shared standard tying decisions together
One workforce, dozens of ways of assessing it
A confectionery business supplying 150 countries needed one way of assessing talent, not several.
Perfetti Van Melle supplies confectionery to over 150 countries, through 38 operating companies and 31 manufacturing facilities, employing 17.9k people. Hiring and development activity across that footprint relied on multiple assessment partners, with no shared standard tying decisions back to the company's own competency profile.
That made it hard to compare talent decisions consistently across the business, and harder still to build the economies of scale a global organization should be able to expect from a single, connected way of assessing people.
One Wave-based standard, from hiring through to development
A single assessment model, consistently applied, replaced a patchwork of partners and reports.
Perfetti Van Melle consolidated its hiring and development assessment activity onto Saville's Wave model, replacing multiple existing partners with one consistent, competency-aligned standard.
Custom Expert Reports and Interview Guides support hiring decisions, while Development Reports carry the same Wave data through into people's growth and progression, connecting the two stages on one platform.
To embed the standard globally, accreditation training was delivered in the Netherlands, America and Singapore for over 60 HR professionals, so the same approach could be applied consistently by local teams worldwide.
Hire on one standard
Custom Expert Reports and Interview Guides, built around Perfetti Van Melle's own competency profile, support around 2,000 hiring decisions a year.
Develop on the same data
Development Reports carry the same Wave model through into people's growth, connecting hiring and development on one platform.
Embed it globally
Accreditation training equipped over 60 HR professionals across three continents to apply the standard consistently.
replacing multiple partners across both hiring and development
A single standard, applied at global scale
Consolidating onto one assessment partner gave Perfetti Van Melle a consistent, more objective way of making talent decisions, worldwide.
Around 2,000 candidates a year are now assessed on the same Wave-based standard, whichever of the 38 operating companies they're applying to. The same reports and the same competency profile carry through from hiring into development, rather than resetting at each new stage.
The consolidated approach also supported better economies of scale, and gave candidates a more consistent, personalized experience through the same objective process, wherever in the world they applied. .
“The toolkit of Wave reports created by Saville Assessment has provided a more consistent and effective approach to our selection and development activities.”
Perfetti Van Melle
The global transformation
How consolidating onto one Wave-based standard changed the way Perfetti Van Melle assesses talent.
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