Empower your hiring projects with SOW
What is Statement of Work (SOW)
Statement of Work (SOW) is a project-based hiring model designed to help businesses deliver defined work packages within specific timeframes. As the demand for high-quality contract professionals grows, driven by tight deadlines, specialised skill gaps, and evolving business needs, many organisations are turning to SOW to ensure speed, compliance, and cost control.
Our SOW model enables faster access to skilled talent, transparent budget management, and reduced hiring risk, all while improving project success rates. By outsourcing the full recruitment process, from scoping and sourcing to onboarding and delivery oversight, businesses gain a flexible, compliant, and scalable solution for executing high-impact projects efficiently.
50%
of companies outsourcing contractor hiring see a 50% faster time-to-fill
82%
of companies say outsourced contract hiring improves project success rates
65%
of business use contingent workers to manage fluctuating project needs
58%
of HR leaders say their teams lack the capacity to manage high-volume project hiring
Why use SOW
Discover why more businesses are turning to SOW. Our Statement of Work offers a smarter, more efficient way to deliver projects, combining expert talent sourcing, streamlined onboarding, and full accountability for outcomes. It’s flexible, scalable, and built to reduce cost, risk, and time-to-hire, all while ensuring your projects stay on track and on budget.
Download the brochure to learn how SOW can reduce costs, improve compliance, and streamline project execution, all while giving you full visibility and accountability at every stage.
Don’t just take our word for it…
Joel Forrester
Global Managing Director
What excites you most about the potential of Statement of Work as a model for project delivery?
What excites me most about Statement of Work (SOW) is the clarity, control, and agility it brings to delivery. Whether Time and Materials or milestone-based, it ensures accountability and outcome focus from day one. Our capability as a service model is run by our Centre of Excellence, applying real operational programme pillars from scoping, mobilising, execution, reporting and administration and close out. This drives consistency, transparency, and high-quality execution. We blend consultancy-grade design with the speed, efficiency and cost of a talent solutions business, re-deploying 75% of our proven talent to reduce ramp-up time, cost, and risk. This disciplined, outcome-led model is a clear differentiator, delivering faster results, lower cost, and exceptional value.
How does SOW enable us to deliver more value compared to traditional contract or consultancy models?
Statement of Work (SOW) enables us to deliver significantly more value by combining the structure and outcome focus missing in traditional contract models, with the flexibility and cost efficiency consultancy lacks. Unlike contract resourcing, SOW brings formal rigour, clear processes, defined deliverables, and quality assurance, ensuring accountability and measurable results. At the same time, it avoids the inflated pricing, rigid scope, and lack of scalability often seen in consultancy models. With SOW, clients get tailored, agile solutions that scale up or down with need, delivered by proven talent and governed by our Centre of Excellence for consistency, transparency, and impact, without paying for what they don’t need.
What sets Hydrogen Group’s SOW offering apart from others in the market?
What sets Hydrogen Group’s Statement of Work offering apart is the depth, reach, and proven quality of our delivery. With 27 years of global experience and over 400 SOW programmes delivered, we bring a track record of excellence supported by a dedicated Centre of Excellence that manages the full lifecycle, scoping, mobilisation, governance, and performance. Our global talent network gives us unrivalled access to pre-qualified, project-ready specialists, while our COE ensures consistency, control, and quality across every engagement. We reuse 75% of our delivery talent, meaning clients benefit from trusted experts who are fast to deploy and proven to perform. What truly differentiates us is our culture. Client-centricity runs through everything we do. We don’t just deliver outcomes, we act as partners, guided by our core values to build long-term impact, not short-term fixes.
If you had to summarise SOW in one sentence, what would it be?
Statement of Work is a structured, outcome-driven delivery model that combines speed, flexibility, and accountability to solve complex business challenges with precision and measurable impact.
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