How MAPP Built a Pay Strategy You Can't Argue With

About MAPP

MAPP manages property portfolios worth over £30bn, offering services from building consultancy and asset transformation to mobilisation and renewable energy. With 680 employees spanning from Brighton to Dundee, MAPP is a people-first B Corp on a mission to deliver outstanding service while building a workplace where people thrive.

The challenge: Static data makes poor foundations

As MAPP grew, Sean Greathead, Head of People and Talent, faced an impossible task: setting fair salaries across 680 people scattered from Brighton to Dundee, doing roles that looked the same on paper but varied hugely in scope.

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Recruiters gave subjective figures, surveys were outdated, and gathering data manually could swallow up months, especially as pay reviews became more frequent to keep up with fast-moving graduate salaries.

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Sean needed a solution that could deliver real-time, objective benchmarks, account for regional and role variations, and give him credible evidence to defend pay decisions without months of spreadsheets.

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Key problems faced by MAPP

From Months Into Minutes

Sean brought in HR DataHub after an initial trial and everything changed.

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Instead of trawling through surveys and recruiter emails, he can now pull live salary data from millions of job ads in just a few clicks.

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Roles are compared like-for-like, adjusted for location and skills, and always reflect the real market rate.That shift freed him from months of admin and gave him back the time to have proper, people-focused conversations with managers and employees.

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From Data Debates to Strategic Conversations

The difference has been profound. Instead of debating salaries, Sean and his team now focus on how to move people to where they should be. They can see exactly where each person sits against the market midpoint, track how pay bands shift over time, and make decisions with total confidence.

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It hasn’t just made pay reviews faster, it’s made them strategic. Conversations are now about growth, retention and fairness, not defending figures.

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Turning Data Into Long-Term Change

With HR DataHub, Sean has gone beyond pay reviews. The platform shows how salaries shift over time, helping him anticipate challenges before they arise.

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It’s also given him the tools to tackle deeper issues like gender, ethnicity and social mobility pay gaps. Instead of reacting after the fact, Sean can now see where different groups sit within the market, and build a clear plan to move them to where they should be.

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The Result: Real-Time Data is Indispensable

For Sean, HR DataHub is now a cornerstone of how MAPP operates. It gives his team the clarity and credibility to reward people fairly, compete in a fast-moving market, and keep their workforce engaged.

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