As organisations scale, increasing their use of contingent workers has many benefits. A contingent workforce enables organisations to quickly adapt to surges in growth, changing client demands or new market developments.
The additional speed and agility offered by a contingent workforce often means that organisations compromise their hiring strategy to keep pace. As the organisation scales and the contingent workforce grows, those flexible workers become harder to track, manage and govern.
Without the right structure in place, what starts as a flexible hiring model can quickly become fragmented, with different suppliers, processes and systems making it difficult to maintain visibility and control.
If that sounds like a familiar story, you can still change the narrative. Building a structured, scalable continent workforce program depends on finding the right partner, the right technology and the right talent.
The role of a Managed Service Provider (MSP)
A growing contingent workforce needs the right processes, governance and supplier structure to ensure that the contingent workers they hire are compliant with employment legislation and tax regulations, and treated fairly. Appointing a Managed Service Provider helps organisations to:
- Build a high-quality talent supply chain delivering high-quality hires.
- Maintain agency performance and value.
- Ensure compliance and identify cost-savings.
- Improve processes and standardise best practice.
An MSP can also bring consistency to a workforce that may otherwise be managed differently across teams, locations or suppliers. By establishing clear processes and accountability, organisations can create a more controlled approach to contingent hiring while retaining the flexibility that makes contingent talent valuable.
The result is a programme that can scale with demand, rather than requiring organisations to continually adapt their approach as the workforce grows.
Implementing a Vendor Management System (VMS)
Implementing a Vendor Management System can provide the infrastructure to scale your contingent workforce, enabling organisations to gain complete oversight of their talent supply chain and visibility of their contingent workforce, from opportunity through to onboarding, and beyond. Your Managed Service Provider would play an integral role in identifying, recommending and implementing the right VMS for your needs.
As hiring volumes increase, having this infrastructure in place becomes increasingly important. Rather than adding more manual processes to manage a growing workforce, organisations can use technology to create greater consistency, efficiency and control.
A partnership based on innovative thinking
Not every MSP fits with the culture of every hiring organisation. Large scale contingent workforce programs can quickly become transactional – more focused on driving down cost-per-hire rather than adding value.
Organisations that are ready to scale need an MSP that can match their agility and ability to adapt. In an uncertain market, finding the right partner means finding an MSP that can embrace change, deliver bespoke hiring solutions in challenging areas, and help to strengthen your reputation as a place to work.
If you’d like to learn more about how to build a scalable contingent workforce strategy, get in touch with us.