Remploy looks to get more commercial with Duncan
24 May 2013
Major employment services provider Remploy, which has found more than 35,000 jobs for disabled and disadvantaged people in the past two years, will take steps to define its future with the withdrawal of government funding next year.
Fri, 24 May 2013
Major employment services provider Remploy, which has found more than 35,000 jobs for disabled and disadvantaged people in the past two years, will take steps to define its future with the withdrawal of government funding next year.
A non-departmental public body, Remploy has appointed Nick Duncan (pictured) interim commercial director of its Employment Services business. The organisation says that ahead of funding being turned off in March 2014, his role is to “ensure the business has the right strategy and people with the necessary skills to strengthen its commercial capability”.
The plans to sell the business were announced last year, seeing job losses across its factories, leading to strikes. Recruiter.co.uk announced in August that half of its 54 factories were due to close by the end of last year, with a further 18 to be closed or sold by the end of this year.
A spokesperson for Remploy confirms that 27 closures did take place by the end of 2012, as a result of the government’s Sayce Review of specialist disability employment programmes.
Speaking to Recruiter, the spokesperson stressed that no decisions had yet been taken on the future direction of the organisation, and that discussions with the Department for Work and Pensions are ongoing.
Duncan has previously held senior marketing positions with multinational firms including Unilever and Monsanto, as well as interim roles in a number of NHS Trusts, and elsewhere in the public and third sector.
Remploy also works with a number of high profile employers including retailers Poundland and Marks & Spencer, as well as having partnerships with companies such as HR firm Penna and other disability charities including Blind Veterans UK.
Major employment services provider Remploy, which has found more than 35,000 jobs for disabled and disadvantaged people in the past two years, will take steps to define its future with the withdrawal of government funding next year.
A non-departmental public body, Remploy has appointed Nick Duncan (pictured) interim commercial director of its Employment Services business. The organisation says that ahead of funding being turned off in March 2014, his role is to “ensure the business has the right strategy and people with the necessary skills to strengthen its commercial capability”.
The plans to sell the business were announced last year, seeing job losses across its factories, leading to strikes. Recruiter.co.uk announced in August that half of its 54 factories were due to close by the end of last year, with a further 18 to be closed or sold by the end of this year.
A spokesperson for Remploy confirms that 27 closures did take place by the end of 2012, as a result of the government’s Sayce Review of specialist disability employment programmes.
Speaking to Recruiter, the spokesperson stressed that no decisions had yet been taken on the future direction of the organisation, and that discussions with the Department for Work and Pensions are ongoing.
Duncan has previously held senior marketing positions with multinational firms including Unilever and Monsanto, as well as interim roles in a number of NHS Trusts, and elsewhere in the public and third sector.
Remploy also works with a number of high profile employers including retailers Poundland and Marks & Spencer, as well as having partnerships with companies such as HR firm Penna and other disability charities including Blind Veterans UK.
