Benefits of outsourcing
Strategic
- Managing launch planning uncertainties.
- Market access, market intelligence and market mapping.
- Establishing a UK presence and infrastructure from scratch.
- Moving away from a distributor partnership model.
- Piloting new initiatives.
- Managing significant commercial risk.
- Planning for Loss of Exclusivity.
- Reinvigorating heritage brands.
- Innovative deal structure – risk, reward, and performance incentivisation.
Operational
- Total flexibility – sales growth is rarely a linear and predictable process, so deploying a flexible team can help manage the uncertainties of expansion and contraction.
- More time focused on what matters most – less time filling vacant territories and more time on selling.
- Expert project management – takes the hassle of employer responsibilities away from Managers, leaving them free to focus on driving performance.
- Unrivalled recruitment competency – a network of regionally based consultants with an average tenure of more than 10 years.
- Managing long term vacancies – sickness, maternity, secondments, and promotions.
Financial
- Minimised indirect costs – the true cost of in-house sales force support is frequently underestimated – training, recruitment, technology provision, fleet and admin.
- CHASE has the experience to handle these matters, leaving you to focus on your business priorities.
- Predictability in an uncertain world – in an ever-changing volatile environment being able to tie down fixed costs for a 12-24 month period is a real benefit.
- Costs of leaving vacancies unfilled – leading to a drain on sales and profitability.
Common myth debunked
“Outsourcing is very expensive and costs a lot more than employing directly”
Most resourcing costs are the same – headcount or outsourced.
- Direct salary and benefits costs (base salary, NI, pension, apprenticeship levy, private medical insurance, personal accident and sickness).
- Other employment costs (car, car insurance, business fuel, smartphone, laptop and software, employee assistance).
- Management costs (payroll, finance, expenses, fleet, HR, legal, training, governance).
- Recruitment costs.
It is hard to specifically allocate out actual costs and notoriously difficult to estimate the true cost of employing and recruiting.
The opportunity cost for unfilled vacancies is huge, as is the cost of training and on-boarding.
Common myth debunked