Market Leaders Xchanging and Alexander Mann Solutions Form HR Excellence Alliance
Alliance between market leaders in BPO and recruitment process outsourcing will allow organizations to benefit from a portfolio of robust, cost effective HR Services
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CHICAGO—July 29, 2009 — Xchanging plc, the global business processor, and Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS), the market leader in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), have today announced they will be forming a strategic alliance for the delivery of end-to-end HR services. The innovative partnership will enable organizations to access a broad portfolio of separate or “bundled” HR services. These services will be competitively priced, allowing organizations to drive efficiencies and lower operational costs, while benefitting from a high degree of expertise, flexibility and choice.
“This is an interesting development for the HR outsourcing marketplace, offering customers a single point of contact for a broader range of HR services. This is proving to be a key sourcing consideration for some organizations given the current economic circumstances as buyers look to reduce operating costs and internal management overheads by consolidating HRO supply,” said Helen Neale, Head of HRO practice at NelsonHall, the BPO experts.
The alliance will deliver a suite of solutions spanning the full HR lifecycle to clients globally. The solutions will include the global HR spend management expertise and learning and development, HR advice and administration, payroll and data reporting, immigration and reward services of Xchanging, combined with the comprehensive recruitment process outsourcing offerings from Alexander Mann Solutions. These cover outsourced permanent, contingent and graduate recruitment solutions and a range of high-value professional services, such as employer branding, business intelligence and technology consulting.
The partnership will leverage the network of high performance service centers of both organizations, and the combination of expertise, infrastructure and resources from both companies will offer clients new efficiencies in systems, processes, speed and quality of services.
“Without doubt, organizations across the world today are looking for greater cost efficiencies in their HR operations, and the ability to remove fixed costs from within their businesses,” commented AMS’s CEO Rosaleen Blair. “However, they continue to seek excellence and want to realize even greater value from investments they do make. Through bringing together the expertise of Xchanging and AMS, we can make sure they achieve both these aims. I believe the partnership is a real reflection of our commitment to provide the best people, processes and technology to meet current and future needs of our clients.”
David Andrews, Xchanging CEO said: “This is a winning combination. Alexander Mann Solutions brings rich experience and breadth of RPO solutions and Xchanging, an established track record as a HR business processor. This makes it a compelling proposition to maximize the value and services we provide to our respective customers globally. Xchanging is aggressively pursuing the vision to be the global business processor of choice for customers globally. This alliance represents a further step forward in our progress towards that goal.”
About Xchanging
Xchanging is a fast growing, pure play global business processor with blue chip customers. We provide complex industry specific processing services to the banking and insurance industries as well as procurement, finance and accounting, and human resources services across industries.
About AMS
Founded in 1996 by Rosaleen Blair, the Veuve Clicquot 2007 Business Woman of the Year, Alexander Mann Solutions is a global leader in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO). A December 2007 management buyout was backed by Graphite Capital, and in February 2008, the company acquired Capital Consulting, a leading RPO player operating in Europe and Asia Pacific.
AMS builds world-class talent functions for its clients that cover permanent, contingent, internal mobility, graduate and talent resourcing programmes. The company acts as a trusted advisor to its clients, building partnerships that usually span between five and ten years. AMS has over 1,000 professionals working across more than 60 countries, and its people are based in the company’s global network of client services centres or work alongside client teams, embedded in their organisations and working under their brands.
In 2008, the company recruited over 50,000 permanent hires and made 205,000 contingent transactions on behalf of its clients. In addition to pure play RPO solutions, AMS also offers a range of high-value Professional Services in areas such as employer branding, assessment and selection and recruitment technology consultancy. It also offers an instant RPO solution, AMS OnDemand, designed for organisations that want the advantages of a world-class recruitment function but don’t have the resources or recruitment volumes.
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