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Skale
Skale is the Kantar-wide job positioning Each role has also been placed in a particular
framework where every role in the organisation ‘career path’ of which there are 4: Executive,
is assigned a position number that indicates the People Management, Professional and
relative size of the role. Skale is our measure Support.
of career progression.
Professional
Every role has been positioned on a 13 point Roles which deliver primarily through
scale and we call this the role ‘position’, individual expertise and management of
starting at 20 and ending at 140. programmes, process’s and perhaps client
relationships. There may be some people
Positions management responsibility. The ‘position’ of
The position of the role makes no inference roles in this career path range from 40 to 90.
on the employee’s performance or the
importance of the role, but looks at the People management
required outputs of the role and its impact. The Roles that deliver via individual expertise but
positions are not single points but wide bands. primarily through the operational leadership
of employees and leveraging the knowledge
Career path and efforts of a team. The ‘position’ of roles
These are a set of mutually understood and in this career path range from 50 to 90.
broadly stated responsibilities that describe
how roles contribute to the business. Of Support
course many roles deliver through a variety Roles which support the business by
of responsibilities however the career path delivering administrative, technical or field
highlights the primary delivery method. expertise. The ‘position’ of roles in this
career path range from 20 to 60.
Executive
Roles that deliver through individual For more information on Skale:
expertise and/or managing senior staff http://globalintranet.tns-global.com/career/
but primarily through driving the long term Pages/SKALE.aspx
strategic direction of the organisation. The
‘position’ of roles in this career path range
from 100 to 140.
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