Call Centre Consultancy

Transform your contact centre into a competitive advantage

We help organisations reduce costs, lift satisfaction scores, and retain their best agents — through practical, data-led consultancy that delivers results fast.

23%
Average reduction in average handling time
+18
Average CSAT score improvement (points)
£2.4m
Saved for clients last year through workforce optimisation and process redesign

End-to-end contact centre expertise

Whether you're scaling up, cutting costs, or rebuilding from the ground up — we've done it before.

Operational Audit

A rapid, structured review of your current operation — covering staffing models, technology, processes, and KPIs. A clear priorities roadmap within four weeks.

Workforce Planning

Get the right people in the right seats at the right time. We build or rebuild your WFM practice, from forecasting models through to scheduling and real-time adherence.

Performance & Quality

Design QA frameworks, coaching programmes, and performance dashboards that shift agent behaviour and sustain improvement long after we leave.

Technology Selection

Vendor-neutral guidance across CCaaS, CRM, WFM, and AI tooling. We help you define requirements, run the RFP, and manage implementation risk — without any referral fees.

CX Strategy

Align your contact centre to wider business strategy. We map customer journeys, identify failure demand, and build the case for investment at board level.

Interim Leadership

Experienced call centre directors available on a fractional or full-time interim basis — to cover a gap, lead a transformation, or mentor your existing team.

Simple, transparent, and fast

We don't do endless discovery phases. We move at the speed your business needs.

01

Discovery call

A free 45-minute conversation to understand your situation, challenges, and what success looks like for you.

02

Proposal

A tailored proposal with a fixed scope, fixed fee, and clear deliverables — no vague retainers or hourly ambiguity.

03

Engagement

We embed with your team, gather data, and deliver work in short sprints with regular check-ins and a live progress tracker.

04

Handover

We don't create dependency. Every engagement ends with a clear handover so your team can own the changes independently.

Numbers that matter to your business

Across 40+ engagements in financial services, retail, utilities, and healthcare.

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT AHT CSAT FCR Attrition Before After
23%
Average reduction in average handling time
+18pt
Average improvement in CSAT scores
31%
Average reduction in agent attrition rate
£2.4m
Cost savings delivered for clients last year

Trusted by operations leaders

We work with heads of operations, CX directors, and transformation leads across the UK and Europe.

"MJL completely transformed how we handle first notification of loss calls. Our AHT dropped by 26% and our claims conversion rate improved significantly — all without compromising the customer experience at what is always a stressful moment."

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Claire H.
Operations Director, Accident Management Group

"We brought MJL in to fix a serious problem with our hire car authorisation queue — customers waiting too long at the worst possible moment. Within six weeks they'd redesigned the workflow and trained the team. The difference was night and day."

TW
Tom W.
Head of Customer Experience, Accident & Hire Management

"In accident management, speed and empathy are everything. MJL understood that immediately. They redesigned our quality framework around what actually matters to a customer who's just had a crash — and our satisfaction scores reflect that."

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Rachel M.
VP Operations, National Accident Management

Personal, local service — available anywhere in the world

We're a small, senior team — and that's entirely by design. When you work with MJL Consultants, you deal directly with the people doing the work. No account managers, no junior consultants learning on your time, no calls that get handed off.

At the same time, we've built the capability to work wherever our clients need us. From our base in the UK we serve organisations across Europe, and our track record in Australia demonstrates that our approach travels. We fly to you, embed with your team, and work in your timezone — because good consultancy only works when you're genuinely present.

UK
Headquartered in the UK, serving clients nationwide
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Proven delivery across Australia — NSW, VIC, QLD, WA
EU
European delivery capability across key markets
24h
We respond to every enquiry within one business day

Results that last long after we've left

Most consultancies hand over a report and move on. We measure ourselves differently — by whether the improvements we deliver are still in place six months, twelve months, two years later. Our engagements are designed from day one to transfer capability to your team, not to create a dependency on us.

Our track record bears this out. Clients who worked with us three years ago are still running the workforce planning models we built together. Quality frameworks we redesigned continue to drive improvement without our involvement. That's what genuine knowledge transfer looks like — and it's the standard we hold ourselves to on every engagement.

91%
of clients maintain or improve results 12 months post-engagement
3yr
longest-running client still using our WFM models unchanged
30d
post-handover support included as standard on every engagement

Call Centre Management — delivered from anywhere

For organisations that want the benefit of senior contact centre leadership without the cost of a full-time director, we offer an ongoing Call Centre Management package. We operate as an extension of your leadership team — remotely from our base, or on-site when needed — providing strategic oversight, performance management, and operational guidance on a continuous basis.

This service is fully location-independent. We have delivered remote management for operations in the UK, Australia, and Europe — covering real-time escalation support, weekly performance reviews, hiring and coaching oversight, and technology governance. Wherever your contact centre is, we can manage it.

Weekly performance reviews
Regular structured reviews of KPIs, quality scores, and workforce adherence — with clear actions and accountability.
Team leader coaching & escalation support
Direct support for your team leaders and managers — available for real-time escalation when things get difficult.
Strategic oversight & planning
Capacity planning, technology roadmap input, and board-level reporting — keeping your operation aligned with the business.
Fully remote — or on-site when it matters
Day-to-day management delivered remotely from our base. We travel to you for critical moments — audits, launches, escalations.
Ask about the management package

Practitioners first, consultants second

MJL Consultants was founded by contact centre leaders who spent decades running operations — not advising on them from the outside. We know what it's like to manage 300 agents, navigate a technology migration, or face a board demanding 20% cost reduction with no compromise on quality.

That's why our advice is grounded in reality. We tell you what will work, what won't, and what the trade-offs are — even when that's not what you hoped to hear.

  • 20+ years of combined operational leadership experience
  • Engagements across financial services, retail, utilities, travel, and healthcare
  • No associate networks — you get the same senior people throughout
  • UK-headquartered with delivery capability across Europe
Accreditation

CCXP Certified

Our principals hold Customer Experience Professional certification from the CXPA.

Partnership

UKCCF Member

Active member of the UK Contact Centre Forum — contributing to industry standards and benchmarking research.

Approach

Fixed-fee engagements

All our work is scoped and priced upfront. No surprises, no scope creep billing, no incentive to drag projects out.

Commitment

Outcomes guarantee

If we can't demonstrate meaningful progress against agreed metrics within 90 days, we work for free until we do.

Let's talk about your operation

We respond within one business day

Prefer a call? Use the form to request a time that suits you and we'll send over a calendar invite. No pressure, no sales pitch — just a conversation.

AVAILABLE NOW
Email
michael@mjl-consultants.com
Phone
07375 870146
Location
UK & Australia
Response time
Within 1 business day