London, UK - May 01, 2008 - Alsbridge plc, the award winning advisors on outsourcing shared services and offshoring will be hosting their next roundtable lunch “Payroll Sourcing –How to Build and Sustain a Successful Partnership with your Supplier” on 14th May 2008 at the Bleeding Heart in London, EC1.

Exclusive to client-side firms, this event will bring together a number of organisations with experience in the various forms of sourcing payroll to share thinking and discuss topical issues.

Mia Nylund, Senior Manager of the HRO, Payroll and Change Management Practice from Alsbridge, will be leading the discussion, providing insights to the challenges and possibilities of outsourcing payroll from an advisory point of view. Mia will be joined by Steve Robinson, Head of HR Shared Services from RWE nPower, who will provide some insights to the critical aspects of restoring and rebuilding a client-supplier relationship, and Angela Cha, a Partner at Pinsent Masons LLP, who will be able to give a legal perspective on payroll outsourcing.

Discussion topics will include:

• How to build a sustainable relationship and partnership with your sourcing partner
• How service management and governance processes is key for a successful outsourcing
• Service management mechanisms such as service levels and service credits used to manage the sourcing solution both within the client and with the supplier
• Structuring the right ‘deal’ balancing shared services, outsourcing and/or offshoring
• Renegotiation of outsourcing deals

If you a client-side organisation interested in receiving an invitation to this client-side event, please contact Helen Ricardo on +44(0)20 7242 0666 or email helen.ricardo@alsbridge.eu