Restructuring Support: Independent reviews, best practice & strategic guidance

During restructuring, we provide independent service reviews, best practice advice, and a critical friend approach to drive change.

Our expertise covers every aspect of the service review process, including business case development, costed model structures, job design, stakeholder mapping, developing costed model structures, equality impact assessments, and one-to-one consultation support—ensuring a strategic, fair, and effective transformation.

The service is provided by our core team of Principal Consultants as well as our network of highly experienced Associate Consultants who have a diverse range of organisational backgrounds. Offering independent support with formal employee consultation, assimilation, ring fencing and redundancy processes, equal pay audits, internal appointments or voluntary leaver arrangements, TUPE transfer processes etc.

What are the benefits?

We offer independent support with a flexible approach tailored to what you want to manage in house, where you require additional resource or want to outsource completely. An external viewpoint is free from preconceptions, leading to more impartial assessments and recommendations.

Organisation Restructuring

Support with changing the structure or operating model of your organisation to improve efficiency, adapt to new business goals, or respond to external challenges.

What are the benefits?

  • An independent, robust and critical friend to support you with change.
  • Support with streamlining operations to improve performance or implement cost saving efficiencies.

Service / Structure Review

Support with reviewing the structure of specific services or functions within your organisation.

What are the benefits?

  • Expertise to help you shape your service.
  • A critical friend to support you on your change journey.
  • Consideration of alternative service delivery models.

Job Design

Support with defining roles and responsibilities within your organisation.

What are the benefits?

  • Clarifies roles, responsibilities and reporting lines.
  • Aligning roles to new business objectives to improve performance.
  • Ensuring fair and transparent pay and grading.

We wanted a holistic people strategy for the county council that serves our values. It's about being proactive, encouraging personal responsibility, equipping managers to lead their teams well and creating a really positive and inclusive environment. The support from WME have been invaluable. They have a really well-rounded consultancy offer. They're very responsive, they know the challenge of local government, understand the region and they have got a really well-established associate pool to drawn upon. For such an important restructure, I needed someone independent that I could trust.

Sarah Getley, Staffordshire County Council



The support we received from WME was most helpful. Their team provided practical advice and guidance, which was instrumental in navigating a particularly complex restructure within our organisation.

Their expertise and thoughtful approach helped us find a way forward, ensuring that we addressed the issue with the utmost care and professionalism.

Andy Begley CEO Shropshire Council

How we can help

Get in touch to explore how we can support your team's growth and development.

Chloe Herrmann

Principal Consultant Resourcing