My Job is at risk - advice please.....

Scuttsy

Hi I am just after some advice.

The company I work for is in the position of making a number of people across different sites redundant. I received a letter today stating the headcount for my job role is being reduced by one. The current structure of my job consists of a senior manager for our site. A senior Sales Executive and 2 sales executives(one of which is me). The new proposed structure is to make the senior manager redundant, create a sales manager role and continue with 2 sales executives.

My confusion stems from the fact that the senior sales executive is being considered as a sales executive not as a different role. Consequently 3 people will be considered for 2 roles. The senior sales executive has lots more time with the company than either of the sales executives and is likely to be secure against any selection criteria. Am I right to think they are only comparing him as a sales executive to secure his role?

To further complicate this until Nov 2008 the structure of our department was a senior manager, sales controller and 4 sales executives(inc your truly). The company at that point made 2 sales executives redundant, made the sales controller role redundant and created the senior sales position. At that time the senior sales role was clearly not a comparable role to the sales exec role otherwise they would have only made 1 sales person redundant and the sales controller role. It seems to me they are deciding whether the senior sales job is classified as a sales executive position in order to protect this 1 persons role within the company.

Can anyone advise is this fair and if not (as I suspect) what do I do about it at this point.

Any help appreciated thanks

LindsayO

sorry to hear you are in this postion.
I can't really advise you but I'm a bit confused. I'm not sure how classing the the senior sales exec as a sales exec protects his role, doesn't this mean he is in the pool of people being considered for redundancy, and doesn't this mean he is more at risk.

sorry if I'm being dense

Scuttsy

No good question and one i am not sure of the answer to. I think though as the role of senior sales exec is not in the new structure that job has been made redundant, just leaving 2 sales executives. As we already have 2 sales executives classing him as a sales executive means he is then compared to us against selection criteria such as length of service which he will be strong at. By changing this criteria they seem to be manipulating job roles to protect him at our expense. Does this make sense?

aloiseb

It sounds all too likely, unfortunately for one of you. Might it be possible to suggest that they keep two sales executives, but doing fewer hours each? Advantages to the company: they keep the team they know, they can cover holidays sickness etc better, etc.....
I know that would mean less money (if they agreed to it) but that might be better than no job at all. HTH and good luck with it all, whichever way things go.

LindsayO

Scuttsy wrote: »

No good question and one i am not sure of the answer to. I think though as the role of senior sales exec is not in the new structure that job has been made redundant, just leaving 2 sales executives. As we already have 2 sales executives classing him as a sales executive means he is then compared to us against selection criteria such as length of service which he will be strong at. By changing this criteria they seem to be manipulating job roles to protect him at our expense. Does this make sense?

Yes it does make sense, he is being compared with you but he has all the advantages.
I wonder why they don't just come right out and say the two sales exec jobs are at risk.

CFC

LindsayO wrote: »

Yes it does make sense, he is being compared with you but he has all the advantages.
I wonder why they don't just come right out and say the two sales exec jobs are at risk.

Because in effect they are downgrading his salary when they keep him on?

Scuttsy

Just to add some better news to this forum. We had the consultation today and my points scoring was good enough to make my position safe. Not so good for a collegue who is also a good friend though.