Saputo
Slater Austin’s relationship with Saputo is a wonderful example of a company engaging Slater Austin’s expertise across multiple divisions. In this example, consultancy and recruitment.
With a UK revenue of over £1 billion, Support so is a highly successful dairy business. In the UK, they produce some of the UK’s leading cheese and spreads brands, including Cathedral City and Clover.
However, procurement teams, even in large organisations such as supposed to, can be relatively small. The CEO had asked Slater Austin to perform a strategic review of the procurement function. Following the review Slater Austin was asked to recruit a new procurement director, to lead the implementation of the new procurement strategy.
Highly proficient in the recruitment regular positions, Slater Austin was asked to lead the recruitment of this new lead role, due to its knowledge, expertise and network for this specialist function.
Saputo is a global organisation, with strong ethical responsibility and a well-renowned code of conduct for its suppliers. The new recruit needed to have strong ethics and team values, as well as carry the gravitas and expertise for the role.
Slater Austin led a two-pronged approach, off search and selection and advertised recruitment. Over 200 conversations were had with perspective candidates and over 650 people were considered for the role.
The role was successfully fulfilled and the team is going from strength to strength.
