Encore announces major restructure
Encore Personnel has introduced a new senior structure to drive the next phase of growth.
The recruitment firm provides temporary and permanent staff to the driving sector across the UK, placing 4,000 to 5,000 workers each week.
Current managing director and co-founder, Greg Latham, will continue to serve in a strategic capacity in a newly created role, group chief executive officer. He will be supported by Pete Taylor, promoted from operations director to managing director. In addition, a new senior leadership team has been established and Cindy Gunn has been promoted to HR director and Louise Bragg and Andy Lewis to operations directors.
The new structure will allow Encore Personnel to capture opportunities in a challenging market.
Greg Latham, group chief executive, Encore Personnel, said, ‘The current skills crisis means that where once temporary workers would clamour for positions, today’s employers are crying out for recruits. Consequently, we need to be increasingly agile, tailored and move even faster to deliver a quality workforce for our customers at exactly the right time for their business. Our new shape will allow us to react to these challenges accordingly with trust, integrity and credibility.
‘The restructure of the senior management team will allow Encore to add value to its customer base by growing the consultancy arm of the business, providing one on one advice to optimise for uncertainty within the market, but also reviewing customer approaches to candidate journeys and experience, including greater options for flexible working where appropriate for a client’s business.
]We are also committed to investing in people, enhancing candidate journey and experience with the latest technology. Encore Personnel has recently incorporated the use of a new smartphone app designed to streamline the temporary worker experience with direct messaging functions to keep in touch, time and attendance recording, online availability and pay information including payslips. This will be rolled out across all Encore Personnel divisions shortly.’
