About Toombs Consulting
An independent SuccessFactors Employee Central practice since 2010.
The firm
Toombs Consulting is an independent SuccessFactors Employee Central practice, operating since 2010. We have delivered 30+ EC implementations across manufacturing, energy, financial services, transportation, technology, public sector, retail, and life sciences — as the lead EC workstream for SI partner firms, and as independent advisors to HR leaders running their own programs.
We do one thing. Employee Central and the core hybrid architecture around it: Foundation Objects, Position Management, RBP, MDF, workflows, event reasons, EC↔ECP integration, and replication. We are not a generalist HCM shop that also takes EC work.
Employee Central, Built to Last.
How we staff engagements
Principal-led. Every engagement is led by a principal consultant who stays on it. No pattern where a senior name wins the work and a junior delivers it.
Right-sized. Most of what we do is a single senior practitioner embedded in an existing delivery team, because that is what the work actually needs. When a scope genuinely needs more — parallel workstreams, a multi-country rollout, a compressed timeline — we assemble the team from a vetted network of independent Employee Central specialists we have delivered alongside before.
Senior on every seat. The network exists so we can scale capacity without diluting depth. Every person we put in front of a client is someone we would put on our own name.
How we work
Independent by design. Toombs Consulting has operated as an independent practice since 2010. Our founder’s earlier career ran through PwC and IBM, so the delivery norms of large SI shops are familiar to us, not foreign.
Practitioner-first. In-the-weeds depth, not advisory from a deck. We are still configuring tenants today.
Built to last. Every engagement is filtered through one question: will this hold up across half-yearly releases, M&A activity, and team turnover? That is the throughline of every recommendation we make.
Brandon Toombs — Founder & Principal Consultant
Brandon founded Toombs Consulting in 2010. More than 25 years in SAP HR technologies and over a decade focused on Employee Central, following earlier roles at PwC and IBM. He leads the practice and remains hands-on in delivery.
- Three-time SAP PRESS author — SuccessFactors Employee Central (2021, co-authored with Rebecca Murray and Luke Marson), SAP Self-Services (2014), HCM Processes and Forms (2011)
- SuccessFactors Confidants member — one of approximately 20 consultants worldwide who meet quarterly with SAP SuccessFactors leadership to provide input on solution direction
- Co-author of two SAP-published Implementation Design Principles — Employee Central Organizational Design Considerations For SAP Core Hybrid and Employee Central Core Hybrid: Data and Process Distribution Details
- SuccessFactors Employee Central Professional Certification — held 9+ years; the certification requires three customer-validated EC lead engagements and is held by fewer than 5% of SF EC consultants
- Co-host and founding member — SAP HCM Insights podcast (averaging 800–1,000 listeners per episode)
- Creator — Employee Central YouTube channel, 3,700+ subscribers, monthly EC deep-dives
Selected experience
30+ Employee Central engagements across manufacturing, energy, financial services, transportation, technology, public sector, retail, and life sciences. Recent flagships include a 30-country core hybrid implementation for Arthrex, Inc. and a 49-country global EC + SAP HR core hybrid implementation for Milliken and Company. Active or recent partner relationships include PwC and NEBCO. Reference list available on request.
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