Employer Services
Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Our clients have seen an average reduction of 19% in costs, combined with an improvement in quality and efficiency. Find out how Reed Managed Services could help your organisation achieve the same results.
Reed Managed Services is at the forefront of the development and delivery of HR management solutions to the public and private sector throughout the UK and Ireland.
Our range of services can help your organisation:
- reduce the cost of volume temporary and permanent staff recruitment
- increase process control and efficiency
- increase the quality of service and staff
- increase visibility of recruitment costs, and access to other associated management information
- develop best practice and thereby reduce the potential risks to your organisation associated with using temporary staff
- continue to support local suppliers, while making the most of your purchasing power
Why use Reed Managed Services?
Request our information pack today to find out how Reed Managed Services can help solve your organisation's recruitment management challenges
- Phone: 020 8274 4396
- Email: reed.managedservices@reed.co.uk
Why use a managed service for your recruitment?
- What are the options for recruitment management?
- What is a managed service
- Why use a managed service?
- What is the best solution for my organisation?
What are the options for recruitment management?
While few organisations use a 'pure' version of these recruitment management options, the following table provides an overview of those available.
| Recruitment Management Model | Description | Pros | Cons | Mainly used by... |
| Sole Supplier | - A single recruitment agency used to fulfil all requirements | - Easy to contact and manage - Can negotiate keener rates |
- May not be able to fulfil all requirements | ...organisations with relatively low staffing requirements |
| Preferred Supplier List (PSL) |
- A number of pre-approved recruitment agencies used to fulfil all requirements | - More likely to fulfil requirements - More time-consuming to contact and manage |
- Can be more expensive than sole supplier rates | ...organisations that require temporary staff with varied skills and are content with current efficiency and process control |
| Master Vendor (MV) |
- One main recruitment agency used, with support agencies used where the main agency cannot fill the requirement | - More likely to fulfil requirements - May only have to use one point of contact for majority of time |
- Can take longer to recruit due to lag time when MV cannot fulfil the order | ...organisations that require high volumes of a few disciplines of temporary staff; most can be supplied by one agency |
| (Vendor Neutral) Managed Service Provider (VN)MSP |
- A single point of contact which liases with a panel of pre-agreed agencies on a PSL or MV basis | - Most likely to fulfil requirements - High level of control as single point of contact |
- Longer implementation time required | ...organisations with large, complex temporary staffing needs, who wish to increase efficiency and process control |
What is a managed service?
A managed service provider handles all stages of the administration of volume recruitment on your behalf, leaving you free to focus on your core projects.
Agreements can be put in place whatever your requirements - from large volume clerical and industrial temporary staff, to executive and managerial positions, and specialist permanent, contract and temporary posts such as social care.
The managed service provider offers a single point of contact for your company's recruitment needs - so your staff do not have to contact a number of agencies to fill vacancies - and also can handle the management of supply agency relationships, best practice implementation, auditing, invoice consolidation and MI provision.
The supply agency arrangement beneath this neutral 'managed service' layer can take many different formats, depending on your specific requirements. For example, this may mean you have sole suppliers for specific disciplines, or a neutral vendor arrangement across the board with many supply agencies.
Why use a managed service?
By appointing a managed service provider to manage your temporary staff supply chain, you can:
- reduce actual costs and improve efficiency, due to the purchasing power of increased economies of scale
- reduce administration costs with a streamlined invoicing process, and potentially just one invoice a month
- integrate the recruitment IT system with your e-procurement system
- increase process control due to improved and consistent management information
- improve service levels by setting up a common SLA with all suppliers, if required
- reduce risk, as vetting and referencing becomes an auditable and standardised process
- mitigate the risk of not filling even the more difficult vacancies
- find the right people for the posts, by co-ordinating your search across the most relevant agencies
- continue to support local suppliers, while making the most of your purchasing power
What is the best solution for your organisation?
From sole supplier, to a fully managed service, Reed can provide you with advice, support and expertise to tailor the solution that best fits your needs.
We are currently offering a recruitment 'Health Check' - request further details via the contact details below, or download the PDF information pack here.
Why use Reed Managed Services?
- Who are Reed Managed Services?
- Why use Reed Managed Services?
- What are the Reed Managed Services pricing options?
Who are Reed Managed Services?
As one of the UK's leading providers of outsourced staff HR management solutions, Reed Managed Services can provide you with advice, support and expertise to tailor the solution that fits your needs.
And with the Reed name behind us, you can be assured of quality, professionalism and innovation in every aspect of our service.
- We take a partnership approach to our client and supplier relationships, which means that we are constantly managing and developing our service in your best interests. Reed Managed Services are recognised as being innovators within the managed service arena, both in service delivery and in the software solutions that support this.
- Our team of Account Managers works with your purchasing and HR teams to agree and maintain service level standards. By getting to know your organisation and its requirements, Reed Managed Services can deliver a service that not only meets your needs but also develops to support them on an ongoing basis.
- Our teams of Account Co-ordinators are skilled in ensuring your staffing orders are handled efficiently, providing a level of customer service to your ordering managers that is second to none.
Why use Reed Managed Services?
You benefit from:
- our proven expertise, and intellectual property from over 40 years' recruitment and HR industry experience, and from running managed service solutions, including a 24/7 contract supplying over 500,000 hours of temporary labour every month across 7,000 UK sites
- fulfilment of your staffing requirements, thanks to our established network of Reed and third party suppliers, covering a range of disciplines such as clerical, finance, social care and light industrial. We can also provide 'neutral vendor' services with no bias towards other Reed companies
- dedicated account management, tailored to suit your requirements
- best practice throughout the recruitment process, audited by our team of Agency Managers
- no capital outlay, thanks to our proprietary online order management software - and as we host it, we also look after the back-up, administration, updates and security, which means you will not be hit by expensive upgrades or system support costs
- a variety of secure online and offline time-capture and invoicing methods
- 24/7 support and booking across the country
- our socially responsible ethos, with complementary regulatory, environmental, and diversity policies
- vendor neutral supplier management, or supply from sister companies within the Reed family of companies
- tailored to your requirements
What are the Reed Managed Services pricing options?
Reed Managed Services offers a number of pricing models - fixed, transactional and gain-share - depending on the scale and level of service you require. Our modular service is tailored to your organisation's specific requirements, and pricing is developed accordingly. This means you get the level of service you need, without paying for functions that you would not use.
Our fixed and transactional models are best suited to organisations with lower staff recruitment levels, and offer a range of competitive fixed management fees and/or transactional costs.
With our gain-share model, the managed service is funded by a percentage of the savings you will gain as a result of the more cost efficient process. This is of particular benefit to organisations that have a temporary staff expenditure of over �1 million.
