Our Sectors
PRIVATE
The drive for profit constantly requires private sector organisations to look for ways to maintain or increase margins, especially when the markets are challenging, and this creates an imperative for all HR functions to operate as leanly and efficiently as possible. Yet, coupled with this downward pressure on resources comes a demand for HR to be more strategically involved in the running of the organisation and its commercial success. Orion Partners understand the importance of economic profit and believe passionately in the contribution a strategic and commercially-focused, efficient HR function can make to the bottom line of the enterprise.
Our clients represent excellence in their fields across the whole private sector: financial services and insurance; professional services; high street to luxury retail; construction; manufacturing and engineering; and consumer goods. In spite of our clients' diversity, they all share a common desire to have their HR functions operating at a more strategic level in their companies, while improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their service delivery, and have chosen to work with us for our dedicated specialisation in this work.
Our business experience and our commitment to commercialising HR particularly enable us to help private sector clients fulfil their potential contribution to their companies' success.
PUBLIC AND NOT-FOR-PROFIT
It has always been a fundamental responsibility of public sector and not-for-profit organisations to demonstrate value for money performance and seek constant improvements in operational efficiency. Recent government initiatives have highlighted this responsibility, provoking reforms across the public sector, and HR functions are playing their part in looking for ways to deliver more and better for less.
Orion Partners have helped a wide range of organisations find such opportunities and achieve highly effective results, from city and county councils to central government departments, the police to the prison service, and international charities to national funding bodies. We have worked with groups of public organisations to help them implement true shared service solutions across their organisational boundaries, despite all the political difficulties involved in attempting this. We have worked with single organisations to help professionalise their HR functions, and we have frequently been called upon to advise on best practice in HR and how to apply it in government contexts.
The next generation of HR in government and not-for-profit organisations will be more professional, better trained and more able to manage the workforce creatively and flexibly. As the only consultancy specialising solely in helping HR organisations transform themselves, we are in a unique position to advise our public and not-for-profit clients on rising to this challenge. No other consultancy offers our range of expertise in HR transformation, from its conception to the final delivery of its results to the organisation, or our depth of understanding of the pressure on our clients to respond.