Tag: Royal Mail

Bernard Hodes Group bags Royal Mail group recruitment marketing contract (UK)

Posted by | Jun 11, 2008 | |

After a fiercely contested pitch process, Bernard Hodes Group will continue as Royal Mail Group’s recruitment marketing partner. The team presented alongside two other agencies in the final stage after a competitive tender from eight agencies.

Bernard Hodes Group will largely focus on recruitment communications, web development, candidate management and Royal Mail’s overarching employer brand.

The account will span the entire Royal Mail Group including Letters, Parcelforce and Post Office Ltd, and will look to attract and engage posties and other frontline staff, management, graduates, apprentices, seasonal staff and specialist hires.

Cassie Sissons, Head of Client Services at Bernard Hodes Group said, “ Royal Mail is on a journey to become a more flexible and diverse employer and we are thrilled to to continue our work with such a hugely important and exciting business. After 4 years together, we’re very clear about their vision and look forward to helping them continue to achieve this.”

Alison Hodgson, Director of Talent and Resourcing said: “This tender decision for Royal Mail is a business critical milestone. I am delighted that Hodes have been re-appointed and am confident that we have arrived at the right decision for the organisation. We very much look forward to continuing along the journey of transformation together with Hodes.

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Post Office Ltd (UK) rules out more closures

Posted by | Jun 10, 2008 | |

The Post Office has moved to stem fears that thousands more branches could be closed on top of the 2,500 scheduled to shut, claiming it has “no plan or desire” to shrink the network further.

The reassurance follows speculation that the Government’s closure plan would need to be extended by cutting another 4,000 post offices. Post Office executives said today they had the funding to maintain branch levels for at least the next three years.

The controversial plan by Royal Mail to close 2,500 branches to save GBP 500,000 a day, will take the network down to 11,500. Until now, further reductions had not been ruled out.

Speaking before the Commons Enterprise committee yesterday, Alan Cook, the Post Office managing director, said: “We must be clear about this. We strongly maintain a desire to keep the network at 11,500 plus.”

He added: “We do have to work within government funding and policy, but we would oppose further plans to shrink the size of the network.”

However, Mr Cook admitted the pledge could only be kept if his company won the government’s post office card account, through which millions of people are paid state benefits.

Ministers have put the card account contract out to tender and are understood to have received rival offers. The National Federation of SubPostmasters has warned that up to 3,000 post offices could be forced to close if the network loses the card account contract. The government is due to make a decision later this summer. Yesterday, Mr Cook said he was confident that the Post Office would win the contract.

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