Finnish meat processor HKScan has said it will introduce its new group-wide operating model on 1 January.
The new model is said to be “an integral part of the company’s turnaround programme”.
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And the company, which flagged possible job losses in October, has said eight employees in Finland will be made redundant following an assessment of the efficiency of its operations there.
The company said it has completed the country-specific preparation processes initiated in October concerning the new group-wide operating model.
It reported it will move from a matrix organisation to a model based on country-specific business units where Finland, Sweden, the Baltics and Denmark form the reporting units.
HKScan said the operating model renewal mainly concerns the changes in reporting lines of white-collar workers and that these changes “have no material impact” on the number of the group’s employees or employment terms.
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By GlobalDataCEO Tero Hemmilä said: “The renewal of the group-level operating model has a central role in the implementation of the three-year turnaround programme launched last spring and the group’s new strategy published in November.
“The renewal strengthens and clarifies market-area level profit responsibility and day-to-day management. With the renewal, we also aim to reinforce our customer- and consumer-driven way of operating.”
HKScan said most of the “personnel impacts” estimated at the beginning of the negotiations will be addressed through reorganisation of tasks but it added that the number of employees of the beef units in Outokumpu and Paimio will be “adjusted to the market situation” through temporary layoffs on dates to be specified in 2020.
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