
In today's fast-paced business environment, companies often face the challenge of adapting to changes in market conditions, stakeholder expectations, economic fluctuations, and competitive pressures. To thrive in such a dynamic landscape, organizations must periodically review and realign their strategies.
Leaders are aware of the uncertainties ahead and seek strategies that minimize costs and risks while maintaining the potential for growth. Traditional downsizing methods, while sometimes necessary, can have negative consequences such as losing vital talent, eroding specialized knowledge and customer relationships, and damaging the brand, which can hinder future recruitment efforts.
Our approach equips clients with the necessary tools to restructure and streamline their operations effectively, reducing these risks and preparing them for sustainable growth. Importantly, our model also allows organizations to scale their capacity and resources flexibly in response to unpredictable market conditions.
Our expertise lies in coordinating comprehensive restructuring initiatives from start to finish. We assist business leaders in formulating strategies, developing new organizational structures, negotiating with unions and works councils, planning workforce transitions in compliance with local laws, managing large-scale exit dialogues, and creating outplacement strategies for displaced staff. At every stage, we prioritize securing the engagement and support of the workforce, which we believe is crucial to the success of any restructuring effort.
Diensten
Relocate and redesign the central distribution centre to a new world-class distribution centre in Belgium.
I led the HR workstream of the relocation, including organizational redesign and workforce transition streams. We developed and rolled out a relocation plan to minimize the social impact on our employees and installed change management practices to help the workforce transition.
I set up and led the transition team, which was staffed internally and supported to track and measure benefits.
In parallel with running the transition mechanics, we designed the operational model for the new distribution centre.
Meanwhile, working in close partnership with the integration teams, we facilitated subtle negotiations with and between management and works councils /unions to clear bottlenecks and address limiting issues early, enabling the process to operate at pace.
Benadering
Context
As part of the global distribution footprint discussion, the board decided to build a new state-of-the-art distribution centre to manage growth for the next ten years.
The closing of the existing distribution centre and the relocation of the people to a new organizational design and new systems and technologies were key to the success of the investments.
Landed complex organizational redesign of global distribution footprint, facilitating the establishment of the group’s now iconic distribution centre in Belgium.
Headed worker's council and union negotiations to achieve favourable outcomes regarding relocating all employees, mitigating severe financial and reputational risk.
Impact
Relocate and organizational re-design of global distribution footprint, including managing the social impact.
Adapt to Changes in a fast paced environment