Bunzl Catering

Background

Utilizing their global purchasing power, Bunzl Catering Supplies source responsibly, ethically manufactured products from the UK and overseas, via trusted supplier partnerships. Consolidating these products in a national network of 7 operating branches and a National Distribution centre in Birch Coppice, Tamworth, BCS deliver to their customers on their own fleet of liveried vehicles.

Cast UK recently completed a large recruitment assignment on our behalf, recruiting all required employees at every level from Operations Manager through to drivers for a newly constructed site in Harlow. They fulfilled all of the project’s requirements within a very tight timescale to a very high standard, which allowed us to get the new operation up & running as efficiently as possible.

Their knowledge of our business & culture alongside their sector specialist expertise make it a pleasure to work with Cast UK

Stuart Fairbairn

Head of HR, Bunzl Catering Services

The Brief

BCS required 42 employees for a completely new site in Harlow, Essex. This included managers, supervisors, administration staff, warehouse operatives as well as drivers.

The Challenges

The lead time of 10 weeks from recruitment to site opening date was very tight.

Our Approach

We met with the senior management to agree a clear brief & timescales.
We assigned a dedicated team consisting to an Account Director and 2 consultants as well as admin support for the project.

We conducted regular review sessions with Bunzl to ensure the project stayed on track.
We worked in partnership with the Bunzl team to ensure a slick interview process & assessment centres organisation.

The Benefits

As BCS decided to use our revolutionary EDGE product, we carried out all of the following on their behalf;

Project plan & timeline
All candidate screening & shortlisting
All candidate first stage video interviews
All candidate 2nd stage interviews
All assessment centre days organisation & implementation

Reference checking
Driver DBS checking
All offers & negotiation
All onboarding
Extended rebate period for all placed candidates

The Result

From site OM down to every driver, we sourced, interviewed & assessed all candidates in partnership with Bunzl. The entire project took 10 weeks from start to the site opening with a final total of 47 roles recruited.

The complete site project that we completed for Bunzl Catering Supplies was challenging, the timescales were extremely tight as there were a minimum of 42 hires to recruit. We started the project with a salary benchmarking exercise to ensure the salary ranges were on point, then all hires were recruited in a specific order to ensure the relevant people were in place as required. As part of our service offering to Bunzl, the Cast UK team facilitated all assessment centres and interview, all the required candidate testing & profiling as well as completing all CRB checks for the candidates as required. The project whilst tough, was thoroughly enjoyable and I was delighted to ensure our delivery of Bunzl’s project on time and in full.

Gary Robinson

Sales Director

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