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Flare Employee Benefits A smarter way to structure your workforce
People move. Structure should not.
Create a stronger foundation for workforce planning with a Position Led structure, unlocking stategic capabilities to level up your HR.
What is a Position-led structure?
Instead of carrying structure on each employee profile, employees are assigned into positions, creating a more stable, scalable way to manage roles, vacancies and reporting lines.
Why it’s better
Less Admin
Reduce manual updates by managing the position, not rebuilding structure every time people move.
Better visibility
See positions, vacancies, reporting lines and assignees more clearly across the organisation.
Stronger role consistency
Use Job Roles as templates to standardise role data across positions and reduce rework as teams grow.
Smarter planning
Create a stronger foundation for workforce and financial planning with more structured position data.
What a position-led unlocks with ELMO
Capability frameworks
Build more consistent capability frameworks from structured job roles, skills and competencies.
Career Development
Define role capabilities, assess skill gaps and generate personalised learning plans across ELMO.
Career Explorer
Help employees explore current or desired roles for meaningful career discussions.
Salary intelligence
Access more relevant salary insights to support fairer, more confident pay and workforce planning decisions.
Workforce design
Lay the structural foundation for more strategic workforce design across the organisation.
Capability forecast
Anticipate and plan for changing capability needs with confidence.
How it works
Define the Job Role
Create a reusable role template with core job profile information.
Create the Position
Create one or many positions from that role, each with its own place in the hierarchy, reporting line and vacancy status.
Assign the employee
Assign the employee into the position so structure stays stable as people join, move and change roles.
Built for connected workflows
Frequently asked questions
Position-Led means positions exist independently of the people in them, so you can manage vacancies, reporting lines and departments even when a role is empty.
In an employee-led model, structure is built around individual employee profiles. In a position-led model, the position becomes the structural record, giving you a more scalable blueprint of the organisation.
It creates a role-centric structure where each position acts as a central hub for reporting lines, departments and locations, and employees inherit the data of the position they step into.
ELMO will guide you through every step of the setup or migration process.
We’ll help you prepare your departments, locations, positions and user data, review your Position Dependencies report, and run baseline reports so the new structure can be validated with confidence.
Yes. Existing customers can remain on employee-led for the foreseeable future, but access to new strategic capabilities such as Workforce Design requires Position-Led configuration.
ELMO will continue to support your current structure, but t new HR Core capabilities such as Workforce Design are built on Position-Led as the foundation, so they are not available without migrating.
Recruitment teams can raise requisitions directly from the org chart or Recruitment module, and position descriptions can flow from HR Core through to job ads for better consistency and standardisation.
