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The Right Ingredients - Episode 11 - Restructuring, Redundancy and Rebuilding Teams

Welcome to the Aston Chambers podcast, “The Right Ingredients”, hosted by Aston Chambers. We are a specialist executive search firm focused on the flavours, fragrances, and speciality ingredients industries. In each episode, we dive deep into the world of recruitment, offering expert advice to both candidates and hiring managers. We cover everything from interview preparation and standing out in a competitive market to providing an exceptional candidate experience. In this episode, we take a clear, honest look at one of the most difficult and often mishandled realities in the speciality ingredients world: restructuring, redundancy and what it really takes to rebuild teams with intention. These moments are usually framed as strategic necessities, but the human impact and long-term consequences are frequently underestimated. I’m joined by Beat Calabretti, a Senior HR and transformation leader with more than 25 years of global experience across life sciences, FMCG, chemicals, agribusiness and food manufacturing. Beat has worked at the heart of large-scale restructures, leadership transitions and cultural change, partnering closely with boards, CEOs and executive teams during periods of significant disruption. Together, we unpack why organisations actually restructure, where things most commonly go wrong, and how decisions made at the top land across the rest of the business. We discuss what employees really need in the first days and weeks after an announcement, how to handle redundancies with dignity, and why the people who remain are often the most overlooked group during change. We also explore rebuilding teams post-restructure, avoiding panic hiring, aligning roles to the future rather than the past, and the leadership behaviours that separate well-managed transformations from failed ones. This conversation offers a grounded, practical view into how companies navigate change and how individuals experience it on both sides of the table. Whether you’re a CEO leading a transformation, a hiring manager rebuilding a team, or a professional reassessing your career after a restructure, this episode provides clear insight into how to handle change more thoughtfully and more effectively. Don’t forget to like, comment, share, and subscribe for more recruitment-focused conversations from The Right Ingredients. 👉 www.aston-chambers.com