Efficiency And Savings Identification Consultant

Sammons Recruitment is collaborating with Staffordshire Police to find an Efficiency and Savings Identification Consultant. The role is a temporary placement lasting 6–10 weeks and focuses on identifying substantial efficiency savings, productivity improvements, and cost avoidance within a large public sector organisation.

• Job type:
  Full-time, office based, temporary
• Location:
  
  Staffordshire Police Headquarters
• Salary:
  Starting from £500 per day
• Duration: 6–10 weeks

• Conduct a comprehensive review of organisational finances, operating models, and resource allocation.
• Establish a clear baseline of current costs, structures, and operational performance.
• Analyse key cost drivers and identify opportunities for improved efficiency.
• Review workforce structures, operational processes, contracts, estates, technology, and ways of working.
• Develop practical recommendations that improve efficiency without impacting critical service delivery.
• Identify productivity improvements that reduce future cost pressures and demand growth.
• Evaluate opportunities where targeted investment could generate future savings.
• Identify technology, infrastructure, and process improvements to reduce operational costs and risks.
• Develop a phased savings plan, quantifying savings opportunities.
• Assess implementation costs, risks, dependencies, and anticipated benefits to create a programme of efficiency initiatives.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior leadership teams.

• Proven experience delivering large-scale efficiency, savings, transformation, or operational improvement programmes.
• Experience identifying and quantifying cost savings and productivity improvements.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior leaders.
• Experience producing business cases, savings plans, and strategic recommendations.
• Experience with in the public sector, emergency services, local government, or similarly complex organisations.
• Knowledge of workforce planning, organisational design, or service transformation.
• Experience conducting benchmarking and operational reviews.
• Lean, Six Sigma, or Continuous Improvement qualifications desirable.

The successful candidate must be willing to undergo an extensive Level 3 vetting process prior to the start of the assignment.

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