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HighRoads' Customer Named Benefits & Compensation Superstar
Kraft Honored for Industry-Leading Global Benefits Management Strategy
BOSTON (Feb. 7, 2007) - Joanne Armenio, Kraft Foods' director of international benefits and a HighRoads customer, has been named a Benefits & Compensation Superstar for her team's pioneering global employee benefits management strategy, that ensures high-quality, cost-effective benefit offerings for 94,000 Kraft employees worldwide.
The third annual award, sponsored by Benefits & Compensation Solutions Magazine, honors HR professionals who are driving change in the benefits landscape - combating everyday challenges with strategies that dramatically improve business operations, plan quality and workplace productivity.
Armenio and her team have gained significant insight into the cost- and value-drivers for employee benefit programs, which differ greatly across more than 70 countries. By tapping HighRoads' global data management solution, they have streamlined data gathering and centralized rich decision-support insight at a corporate level, while giving local and regional stakeholders new tools to manage benefit programs more effectively than ever before.
This centralized visibility into benefit programs and supplier performance directly supports initiatives to optimize plan design, regulation compliance and cost-saving measures.
"Joanne is a visionary in her field, championing the 'best of corporate and best of local' approach to ensure high-quality employee benefit packages," said Michael Byers, president and COO of HighRoads. "We're honored to be a partner in her success, as she sets a new standard of excellence for managing large-scale, highly complex benefit programs - and making it look easy."
Kraft is the world's second largest food and beverage manufacturer, with products that touch millions of consumers each day. Based on Northfield, Ill., the company is also known for being a best-in-class employer. Providing the kinds of competitive benefits packages that employees - around the globe - value is a core tenet of its corporate philosophy.
The full 2007 Benefits & Compensation Superstars list, along with profiles of the winners, can be found at http://www.bcsolutionsmag.com/archives/BCS-JanFeb07-web/BCS-JanFeb07-BCSuperstars.pdf.
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HighRoads, Inc. (www.HighRoads.com) is the only company offering a system of record for managing HR program and supplier information to improve the employee experience while dramatically reducing costs for large, complex organizations. HighRoads has automated HR processes for more than 100 Fortune 500 employers along with 700 of their suppliers, consultants and outsourced administrators in 75 countries. Clients include some of the world's largest companies, such as General Dynamics, Honeywell, IBM, Kraft, Staples and Toyota. Founded in 1999, HighRoads is a privately-held company headquartered in Woburn, Mass.
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