CUSTOMER STORY
How Bekaert Drives Manager Effectiveness & Cost Optimization with Visier
Global manufacturer Bekaert turned to Visier to transform its fragmented data into actionable workforce intelligence. The team created a custom manager effectiveness framework that improved leadership development and made data more accessible and digestible. The result: empowered managers, optimized workforce costs, and improved data literacy.
INDUSTRY
Manufacturing
HEADQUARTERS
Zwevegem, Belgium
EMPLOYEES
26,000
VISIER PEOPLE® SOLUTIONS:
- Essentials
- Position Management
- Aggregate Management
- Talent Acquisition
- Business Results
- Benchmarks and Standard Occupations
Bekaert’s ambition is to be the leading partner for shaping the way we live and move, and to always do this in a way that is safe, smart, and sustainable.
With Visier’s people analytics solutions, Bekaert has:
Built a manager effectiveness framework to drive leadership development
Optimized workforce costs with organizational visibility
Elevated HR from tactical operations to strategic business partner
THE CHALLENGE
Data gaps blocked HR’s impact
When Romi Roye joined as VP of Group HR Functions, the HR team was eager to measure talent effectiveness, but lacked the consistent, trustworthy data necessary to back it up.
Additionally, as a steel manufacturer with 20,000+ employees across 40+ global locations, Bekaert faced mounting cost pressures. To lead strategically, Bekaert needed a single source of truth.
THE SOLUTION
Building a Manager Effectiveness Framework
Bekaert chose Visier for its user-friendly interface and proven impact. With a focused team and strong Visier support, they implemented the organizational suite and developed a custom manager effectiveness framework that combines sentiment-based and outcome-based metrics.
Now, managers use data to ask better questions, have meaningful conversations, and drive measurable business impact.
"The fact that you can combine data, people analytics, and organizational intelligence from Visier is second to none. I can't even envision a world without having that data anymore.”
Romi Roye
VP HRBP Group Functions, Talent, Leadership, Org Effectiveness and People Analytics, Bekaert
THE OUTCOME
From Data Provider to Strategic Partner
Visier transformed how Bekaert's managers think about leadership. They now ask fundamentally different questions about psychological safety, diversity, and engagement.
The platform enabled cost optimization achievements, supported organizational redesign across locations, and made total cost of employment visible. Most importantly, HR evolved from delivering reports to providing organizational intelligence that drives C-suite decisions.
Solutions used by Bekaert
Vee by Visier®
Vee is Visier's generative AI solution that delivers a conversational interface to Visier People so users can ask their most pressing people-related questions and receive answers in natural language powered by AI.
Visier People® Essentials
A single people analytics package designed to help you move the needle on the HR challenges that matter most—from talent acquisition to retention, and beyond.
Visier People® Learning & Development
Connect learning data with KPI to measure program effectiveness and direct your learning resources where they’ll have the most impact.
Visier People® Talent Essentials
Use data and insights to supercharge your TA strategies. Hire high-quality people faster, more efficiently and with more confidence.
Visier People® Talent Acquisition
Use data and insights to supercharge your TA strategies. Hire high-quality people faster, more efficiently and with more confidence.
Visier People® Organization
See a unified picture of your workforce data, and make better decisions, no matter how many employees or systems you have.
Visier People® Extend
Expand Visier People® with flexible data integration and tailored analytics for your evolving needs.
Visier People® Total Rewards and Hourly Workers
Optimize your hourly workforce, allowing you to increase safety, fairness, and manage your people better. Which is better for them, and better for your business.
Visier People® Workforce CSRD
Workforce CSRD provides a centralized view of all your workforce data, making it easy to comply with the 30+ metrics required for ESRS S1 Own Workforce reporting.
Visier® Benchmarks and Standardized Occupations
The ultimate solutions for organizations looking to measure their workforce performance against their peers and achieve job title standardization.
Visier® Workforce Planning
Visier® Workforce Planning enables continuous, collaborative, data-driven planning across a variety of use cases.
Visier® Smart Compensation
Smart Compensation manages the workflow of an annual merit cycle or one-time market pay adjustment cycle, from setting the budget through to the communication of pay changes to employees.
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About Visier
Visier is the global leader in Workforce Intelligence that powers every people decision. Our award-winning, agentic AI technology surfaces the insights leaders need to plan, decide, and act with confidence in the moments that matter most. As the market leader in people analytics, workforce planning, organizational design, and manager effectiveness solutions, we fuel smarter decision-making for organizations across the globe. Our mission is to help businesses lead with insight at scale as they continuously transform. Founded in 2010 by the pioneers of business intelligence, we have over 65,000 customers in 75 countries—including enterprises like BASF, Panasonic, Domino’s Pizza, Experian, Amgen, eBay, and Ford Motor Company.
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