Job 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