Shropshire Council services firm ip&e looks to hire bosses
The company being set up to run some Shropshire Council services for profit is preparing to hire a team of senior managers.
Shropshire Council is setting up the company, called ip&e, which is due to take on hundreds of its workers over the next 12 months. The council put in a loan of £500,000 last year to help get the business up and running.
Council leader Keith Barrow had hoped to move the first staff across by the end of last year, but the transfer date was pushed back to April 2013 and is now set for September, when more than 1,300 catering and cleaning staff are due to move from the council's employment to work for ip&e.
Now a draft business plan for ip&e has set out proposals to bring in a number of high-level bosses.
Directors of finance, human resources and customer service are being considered, as is a personal assistant for £80,000-a-year managing director Tom Roehricht. No decision has been made on when such staff would be appointed or what their salaries would be.
But Mr Roehricht said that pay 'would be appropriate to the needs of the business'. Mr Roehricht said: "As the draft ip&e business plan says, consideration will need to be given to the recruitment of key senior roles, when the time is appropriate, and executive directors for areas including finance, human resources and customer service will be appointed as the business demands.
"It is therefore too early to say if and when these roles will be recruited, and what the salaries would be, but any salary would be appropriate to the needs of the business.
"These appointments would be ip&e board appointments."
The business plan will go before Shropshire Council's cabinet on Wednesday.
