Case Studies
QINETIQ
Key Project Deliverables
- Onsite teams dedicated to QinetiQ
- All new orders managed to Elan/Trusted Experts
- All supply channels managed under Elan/Trusted Experts
- Development of in house searchable Trusted Expert database
- On going consultancy advice and service improvements
- Consolidated Management Reporting and Invoicing
Business Overview
QinetiQ delivers brilliant solutions to some of the most important problems faced by business, government and society today and tomorrow. In today's world the challenges faced by governments to defend their citizens from defence and security threats are increasingly urgent and unpredictable.
QinetiQ is the world's first top flight national defence laboratory to transition to the private sector and therefore is able to bring to legitimate defence customers an unparalleled resource of intellectual property to create, test and prove responses to pressing needs. In solving defence and security problems we operate at the leading edge of technology which enables us to give commercial customers access to solutions that are often beyond what is available in civil markets.
Key Business Drivers
- Year on year cost savings to QinetiQ
- Risk Management, absorption of employer liability, and associated costs
- Introduction of best practice recruitment process and systems
- Faster and better calibre hires
- Consolidated management information system
- Facilitate Internal Redeployment
The Solution
- Multi million pound cost savings achieved
- Elan team branded as Trusted Experts - the internal resource team
- Elan/Trusted Experts rather than hiring managers responsible for control and management of suppliers
- Improve control of authorisation process
- Redeployment tracker / skills market place checked pre - external search
- Reduced management time in sourcing and contractor management
- Improved candidate quality as measures by KPI's
- Reduced co-employment and taxation risk
- Eliminated direct contractors to QinetiQ
- Introduced a structure PSL on a common fee basis
- Receive one invoice a month instead of 500+
THALES
Key Project Deliverables
- Over 500 Contractors currently onsite
- Onsite teams dedicated to Thales
- All new orders managed through Elan Defence
- All supply channels managed through Elan Defence
- Automated contractor requisition and management functionality
- On going consultancy advice and service improvements
- Consolidated Management Reporting and Invoicing
Business Overview
Thales UK is a major defence, aerospace and electronics company. UK based, UK managed and intent on meeting the needs of our military and industrial customers in the UK and in UK export markets. Our technology, based on dual civil and military capabilities, is world class and our plants and employees in the UK make a significant contribution to the nation's economy, its technical capability and its industrial base. We both draw upon, and contribute to, the technical and business strength of the worldwide Thales Group.
Thales employs 10,000 people - 70% of them in engineering - working across 60 UK sites. And our commitment to excellence has earned us - and our customers - 78 Queen's Awards for Technology and Export
Key Business Drivers
- Measurable year on year cost savings
- Risk Management, absorption of employer liability, and associated costs
- Introduction of best practice recruitment process and systems
- Faster and better calibre hires
- Consolidated management information system
- Contractor visibility and reduction in contractor numbers
The Solution
- Purchase of existing in house recruitment company and TUPE of staff
- Dedicated on site and offsite account and delivery teams
- Co-employment and best practise seminars
- Introduction of strict service SLA's
- Introduction of web based contractor vacancy/recruitment management
- Management of all contractors for all disciplines including IT, Engineering, Finance, Production & Administration
- All supply channels managed by the Elan Defence Recruitment Centre
- Migration of contractors working through non-PSL agencies to Elan Defence
- All new orders managed by Elan Defence
- On going consultancy and advice leading to ongoing cost saving initiatives
- Consolidated Management Reporting and invoicing
Service Evolution
- Creation of offset network leading to strategic partnerships which has led to the securing of new profitable business opportunities for both Thales and Elan Defence
- Efficient Centralisation, management and control of all contract and temporary recruitment for Thales across the UK. Delivered through Elan Defence teams.
- Ongoing contractor transparency leading to reduced contractor numbers interlinked with support to the internal redeployment initiative.
- Elan Defence has negotiated preferential rates with the supply chain, which will both deliver substantial savings and continue to meet the needs of the business.
- Promotion of referrals within Thales as a cost effective alternative to external contractors
- Development of on going initiatives around reducing labour costs
- On going consultancy support in the areas of employment legislation.