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In the current economic climate, retailers are not only facing falling sales but also a continuing increase in labour costs which is further impacting on margins and profitability. Whilst consumers are undoubtedly spending less, they are also spending more selectively, demanding better value and higher standards of service. Managing your staff more efficiently has never been so crucial to success.
What’s more, customer demand can vary from season to season and even week by week, adding even more pressure to maintain optimum staff levels. Implementing a comprehensive workforce management (WFM) strategy can help alleviate the problem by giving you the insight to ensure that staff with the right skills and knowledge are where you need them, when you need them. It can also help with short and long-term planning giving you greater control over payroll costs and resulting in significant savings.
An effective WFM solution can also improve staff morale and job satisfaction, leading to higher levels of customer service and ultimately, profitability.
Find out how strategic staffing could help you cut costs and improve service.
Retail Choice
RetailChoice.com is the UK’s largest and fastest growing recruitment website for the retail sector. Advertising on RetailChoice.com is quick, easy and flexible and puts the control firmly into your hands. We have a range of the most effective and practical tools to help solve any recruitment need however large or small.
RetailChoice.com takes the hard work out of finding the right candidate for you. You have the flexibility to advertise any number of jobs, search for candidates yourself, email them direct or develop an entire advertising campaign that will solve all your recruitment needs. We’ll help you find the right person quickly and cost effectively, and our Customer Service Team and Account Managers will be there to support you every step of the way.
With 5 years experience at the cutting edge of online recruitment in the UK, RetailChoice.com has a unique understanding of the market and of UK retail jobseekers. We put the jobseeker at the heart of our business and continuously analyse the behaviour of our audience.
We believe in sharing our knowledge. RetailChoice.com provides meaningful industry surveys and reports, networking events and tips on the most effective online advertising techniques to help you create the best recruitment campaign.
RetailChoice.com delivers over 312,000 active jobseekers, who generate over 190,000 applications to our recruiters’ vacancies every month. For the past 5 years, more retail jobseekers have visited and searched for jobs on RetailChoice.com than any other retail recruitment website.
www.retailchoice.com
MidlandHR
MidlandHR is a leading supplier of HR, payroll, talent management and workforce planning solutions. With a wealth of industry experience, our solutions support some of the largest and most successful commercial and public sector organisations in the UK. MidlandHR’s success lies in delivering value for your organisation through your people.
Whether you require an in-house solution, HR and payroll outsourcing services, or a hosted application service, MidlandHR’s strength lies in its cutting edge iTrent technology and a commitment to providing the highest quality strategic service to meet your business needs.
- Single integrated solution
- Streamlines HR and payroll processes
- Enhances performance through workforce planning, talent & performance management
- Delivers high levels of return on investment
iTrent helps you to align your people to your business goals, develop and nurture talent to support future requirements and realise the true value of your people. Essentially, iTrent presents you with the visibility of information needed to identify which people strategies have the greatest impact on organisational performance.
Customers include: Friends Provident, Severn Trent Water, QVC, TK Maxx, Liverpool Football Club, Laing O’Rourke, Sytner, Skanska, Brighton and Hove Council, Law Offices Departments, Chesterfield NHS, Cambridge University, Humberside Police, The Salvation Army and more.
In-house Software| Hosted Applications Services| HR and Payroll Outsourcing Services| Strategic HR Consultancy| Implementation Services
For more information c 0115 9457712 e info@midlandhr.com w www.midlandhr.com/i
Ceridian
Ceridian is a market-leading provider of HR outsourcing services that helps its customers maximise the power of their people, lower their costs and focus on what they do best. Globally, the company serves more than 25 million employees with a range of HR, payroll, employee assistance programmes (EAP) and funds transfer services, making it one of the few providers delivering services both locally and internationally.
Ceridian is one of the leading providers to the Retail Sector; we currently work in partnership with 14% of the high street including ASDA, River Island Clothing, Whitbread and World Design & Trade.
Workforce management is one of the solutions that drives further business efficiency through payroll accuracy, control, and business intelligence. In some examples business performance improvements have reached levels as high as 8% of company salary costs.
In the UK, Ceridian serves one in eight people employed in the private sector and delivers multinational services in over 50 countries. At the heart of its winning approach is a unique combination of innovative technology, customer service and HR expertise, designed to enable HR to make a real commercial impact.
Hammonds LLP
Hammonds is a leading commercial law firm with offices throughout the UK in Leeds, Manchester, London, Leeds and Birmingham as well as in Europe and in Asia. The firm employs over 1100 people, including 170 partners, working out of 10 offices in 6 countries.
Hammonds advises over 30 FTSE 100 companies, and their subsidiaries, and over 90 FTSE All Share companies, together with governments and financiers on all aspects of local and international law.
The firm has extensive experience of working with clients who are major players within the retail sector, including major household names, and also the related aspects of distribution and warehousing.
Many of the UK's retailers trust us to support them in the provision of employment law advice. We are extremely proud both of our client base within the sector generally, and also the fact that leading retailers such as Tesco rely on our support on a daily basis. Our reputation within the retail sector is down to our team of best in class specialists who understand the particular challenges faced by today’s retailers.
Snapshot of relevant retail employment experience:
- Handling several hundred employment tribunal claims for a number of household name retailers each year;
- Head office reorganisation and store management restructuring for well known retailer employing over 14,000 employees;
- Advising on industrial action arising out of the closure and relocation of a distribution centre;
- Successfully defending a claim by a Muslim employee alleging race discrimination because he was required to handle alcohol at work;
- Advising several retailers on appropriate protections against illegally employing migrant labour.
A selection of our retail clients include: Claire’s Accessories, Dolland & Atchison, Game, Savers, Superdrug, Tesco, The Perfume Shop, TJ Hughes.
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