Efficiency and Savings Consultant

Description:

Efficiency & Savings Consultant  
   
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Scope of Work: Force-wide Efficiency & Savings Identification Consultancy  
  
1. Purpose of Engagement  Staffordshire Police requires a short, targeted consultancy engagement to identify cashable efficiency savings and productivity-led cost avoidance opportunities across all Commands and business areas. The work will support the identification of:  

£9m of savings deliverable in the next financial year, and •        £20m of savings over the following four years,   while protecting frontline policing capability and taking full account of transformation activity already underway.  
  
2. Scope of Activities   
Workstream 
Key Activities 
Outputs 
Financial & Operating Baseline
Review Force-wide financial position, cost base, and MTFP - Understand current operating models and resource
  
Indentify key cost drivers and;
Agreed Force-wide cost and operating baseline
Cashable Efficiency Identification
Identify opportunities for cashable efficiency savings across all business areas
Longlist of cashable efficiency savings

Focus on non-officer workforce, processes, contracts, estates, ICT, and ways of working
  
Ensure police officer numbers remain ringfenced
Productivity & Cost
Avoidance Opportunities
Identify productivity improvements that reduce future cost growth or demand
Productivity and cost-avoidance opportunity set
Identify capital investments required to deliver future efficiency savings, minimise technical debt, and avoid downstream operational, maintenance, risk, and change-related costs
Future Investments
Assess opportunities for reinvestment rather than officer reduction
  
Best Practice & Benchmarking
Align productivity gains to operational priorities
Best practice insights and benchmarking evidence 
 Bring proven approaches from other areas of UK policing - Benchmark Staffordshire Police against comparable forces where appropriate
Identify transferable models and lessons learned
Integration with Existing
Programmes
Take account of work already in progress (e.g. ERP, admin review, digital change)
Integrated and de-duplicated savings pipeline 
 Avoid duplication and double counting of savings
Identify interdependencies and sequencing requirements
  
Savings Quantification & Phasing
Quantify savings values and confidence levels
Fully costed, phased savings plan 
Phase savings into Year 1 (£9m) and Years 2–4 (£20m)
Identify costs of change and investment requirements
Options Appraisal & Delivery Planning
Assess speed and complexity of delivery for each option
Prioritised multi year savings programme
 Identify benefits, risks, and internal/external dependencies
Group opportunities into coherent delivery packages
Leadership Decision Support
Prepare concise, decision-focused materials
Executive options paper and presentation 
Present findings, options, and trade-offs to senior leaders
Support agreement on preferred approach 
  
 Key Deliverables 
Force-wide cost and operating baseline
Longlist and prioritised shortlist of savings opportunities
Quantified savings plan (£9m Year 1; £20m over 4 years)
Assessment of delivery speed, complexity, risks, and dependencies
Multi-year savings and productivity programme
Visual Road map   4. Timescale 
Short, intensive engagement, typically 6–10 weeks, subject to data availability and stakeholder access