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Marsh Core HR Solutions

Ready-to-deploy workforce and rewards solutions designed to tackle the most common challenges growing organizations face, backed by Mercer’s depth of expertise and market-leading data and insight. Get the clarity, structure, and momentum you need — without the cost or complexity of a large-scale engagement. 

When time and resources are tight, HR needs solutions it can stand behind.

Growing organizations are under pressure to compete for talent while keeping costs and risk in check — often with lean HR teams and limited time to execute. Common challenges include: 

  • Pay decisions that are hard to defend across roles, levels and locations — plus increasing pressure to demonstrate fairness. 
  • Unclear roles and career paths that slow progression, hinder workforce planning and contribute to attrition. 
  • Low visibility into what employees need most, making it difficult to prioritize actions and rewards that improve employee engagement and retention. 
  • Change fatigue and misalignment that undermines adoption when new structures, policies, or programs roll out. 
  • Too little insight, too slowly — HR needs reliable guidance to make day-to-day decisions with confidence. 
  • Benefits complexity that reduces employee understanding and perceived value. 
  • Talent mobility needs that have outgrown informal processes, increasing risk and administrative burden. 

Introducing Marsh Core HR Solutions 

Marsh Core HR Solutions simplify complex HR challenges and drive clarity, engagement, and efficiency. Strengthen pay programs, clarify careers, and build confidence across your workforce.

Benefits:  

  • Attract and retain the right talent: Design competitive, defensible pay structures grounded in current market data across roles, levels, and locations. 
  • Understand and act on what your people need: Address pay equity, benefits education, and employee feedback with tools that turn insights into action. 
  • Communicate change with confidence: Equip managers and employees with tailored communications that drive adoption and reduce disruption. 
  • Move quickly on people decisions: Access expert guidance and strategic frameworks that support faster, more informed decisions.

Built for speed. Backed by Mercer’s expertise. 

Ready to move faster on critical people decisions? Marsh Core HR Solutions are designed for growing organizations that need high-impact outcomes — fast. 

Features:

  • Ready-to-deploy solutions for organizations seeking speed and simplicity.

  • Streamlined offerings that address practical workforce needs.

  • Efficient implementation and measurable outcomes.

  • Fixed scope and standardized pricing to reduce uncertainty and speed approvals.

  • Expert-led and market-informed, grounded in Mercer’s expertise in people advisory, data, and insight.

  • Actionable deliverables your leaders and managers can use immediately.

Marsh’s Core HR Solutions help HR teams move from uncertainty to action — with practical deliverables, proven methods, and standardized pricing. 

Explore Marsh’s Core HR Solutions:

Attract and retain executive talent with market-informed insight.

Get market-informed analysis of base salary, short-term incentives, and long-term incentives to support confident executive pay decisions. 

Clarify roles and levels so talent decisions are consistent and scalable.

Create a streamlined job architecture that clarifies roles, job levels, and career paths — helping accelerate progression and enable stronger workforce planning. Also available as a bundle with workforce compensation. 

Align pay to business strategy with current market data.

Benchmark pay and design cost-efficient pay structures that align total compensation to business strategy — supporting smarter cost decisions and stronger attraction and retention. Also available: as a bundle with job architecture. 

Identify gaps. Prioritize action. Reduce risk. 

Diagnose pay gaps through rigorous analysis and receive prioritized, costed remediation actions — plus policy guidance to help strengthen fairness and reduce exposure. Designed for organizations that need a credible, defensible view of pay equity and a clear path forward. 

Bring structure and confidence to mobility decisions.

Give mobility teams access to tools and resources to design and manage global and domestic mobility programs that support business priorities and workforce strategies. 

Faster answers for day-to-day HR decisions.

Give HR teams fast access to actionable insights to reliably inform daily decisions — especially when teams are lean and the business needs quick, consistent guidance. 

Improve adoption and reduce disruption when change matters.

Deliver tailored communications and manager enablement to drive adoption and minimize disruption during job architecture changes so employees understand what’s changing and managers can lead with confidence. 

Help employees “benefit smarter.”

Empower employees to make more informed benefits decisions with an engaging benefits education experience — improving understanding, confidence, and perceived value. 

Turn feedback into focused, practical action.

Gather employee feedback and deliver segmented, action-oriented insights that help you prioritize interventions — supporting engagement and retention where it matters most. 

Why work with us?  

We combine deep HR expertise with the scale to deliver results across the employee lifecycle. Our specialists bring proven experience across HR strategy, compensation and rewards, operating models, process design, change management, data and governance, and the day-to-day realities of HR service delivery.  

Leveraging Mercer’s proprietary data, tools, and insights, we help reduce administrative burden and improve HR operational efficiency. We also collaborate with leading technology providers to bring AI-powered innovation into our solutions — from smarter data harmonization and workflow automation to more intuitive experiences for employees, managers, and HR teams. The result: helping you build a modern, efficient, and resilient HR foundation that evolves as your workforce and business needs change.

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