Seeking: a partner in people success.

When you’re a company like Leonardo – a global leader in the Aerospace, Defence and Security industry for over 70 years, and striving to equip the world with advanced and sustainable technologies – your employee experience means everything.

Today, the 49,000-strong Leonardo family works to deliver innovative customer solutions that protect and empower people, territories, and infrastructure. But to drive forward Leonardo’s mission, they need experiences that keep them feeling engaged, looked after, and appreciated for the work they do - each and every day.

With a large and complex workforce in the UK, Leonardo needed a payroll and HR partner to help manage its entire employee lifecycle - from hire to retire - and engineer stronger business outcomes.

In particular, the partner of choice would have to act as a true extension of the Leonardo team – focusing on developing smooth and seamless processes, fostering a mindset of continuous improvement and, where appropriate, generating and maintaining a shared plan with third parties.

Leonardo identified Zellis as a proven payroll and HR expert that could be trusted not only to deliver efficient and resilient services to its 7,000+ UK employees, but also push the organisation to engage with new, innovative ways of working.

Zellis implemented a managed payroll and HR solution, underpinned by its award-winning software, ResourceLink. This includes delivering critical employee services on a day-to-day basis, managing the roll-out of new projects, and providing a dedicated team to run an Apprentice Management Service on-site. From the outset, Leonardo has also received expert support from Zellis’ service delivery centre, based out of Kochi, India.