Our work with a large food manufacturing operation

The Situation

Our client is a well-know food manufacturing operation based in the Midlands. They were experiencing poor financial results. And as a result, were failing to attract enough people to work for them. In addition, they had quite major staff retention problems. And this resulted in low productivity and very low staff morale.

The Challenge for the Food Manufacturing Client

Their initial challenge was to improve the attraction and retention of staff. This was to cover both temporary and permanent positions. In addition, they also needed to increase productivity of their workforce. Therefore resulting in an improvement in financial performance.

Our Solution

Sometimes clients need something beyond a simple recruitment solution. They need supporting across attraction, retention and more. This is where our Total Managed Service really adds value for our clients. We provide a service that not only manages your temporary and permanent recruitment. It also develops you staff to have higher levels of productivity and value. We deliver this through our vocation training provision that ranges from improving literacy through to industry apprenticeships. This tried and tested strategy is also proven to deliver additional benefits in workforce attraction and retention. It was the perfect solution for this food manufacturing client.

What we did

• We successfully managed the recruitment of up to 100 temporary General Operatives
• We successfully managed the permanent recruitment of key roles through our permanent division, PSi Talent
• An initial cohort of 40 FTE’s enrolled on a relevant apprenticeship programme
• An initial 50 FTE’s enrolled on a literacy training programme

The Results Experienced by the Food Manufacturing Client

• Candidate attraction increased by 400%
• Key roles were filled by suitably qualified and motivated candidates
• Staff retention improvements from 60% to 91%
• Marked improvements in communication due to additional literacy training
• Increased productivity resulting in increased capacity to fulfil new products and additional volume output
• The site now records record profits

What our client had to say –

“With the skills crisis and shrinking talent pool in the UK, we had concerns about our ability to attract the right number of people with the right skills. We understood that candidates had so much choice in the market that it was hard to stand out and attract strong people. Working with CSP changed all that.

By utilising CSPs vocational training offering, we have been able to continue to attract great people, and the improvements in retention and continuity have been excellent. Working with CSP has enabled us to not only achieve our headcount and retention targets, but to also upskill our current team too. The personal development plans, for temps and our own employees, are giving our teams more skills to do the job and this is resulting in increased productivity.

We’ve become an Employer of Choice thanks to the innovative approach from CSP.”

About CSP

Since launching over a decade ago, we have established ourselves as the benchmark across our client base. Our ‘supply partnerships’ allow us to deliver industry bashing performance across all they metrics. This has seen us become one of the fastest growing independent recruitment agencies in the UK.

We are helping businesses meet their production targets with our unique staffing solutions. Isn’t it time you talked to our team?

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