OAMPS Insurance Brokers has retrenched its entire marketing team as the company seeks to “better align” head office functions with its 28 Australian branches.

National Manager Marketing Nick Hill is among six staff to depart the OAMPS Shared Services division.

Wesfarmers Insurance Communications Manager Robert Swinton this morning confirmed the departure of three marketing staff among the six redundancies, which he says is part of a restructuring in the OAMPS headquarters in east Melbourne.

OAMPS said in a statement the changes are designed to “improve the range and quality of support services provided to the branch network” under a new structure called OAMPS Central.

The company has established new roles including Head of Partnerships & Marketing, Head of Claims and Head of Commercial. Insurer and Partnerships Manager Brian O’Sullivan continues in his existing role.

“This project will involve some retrenchments and there will be some new roles among the changes,” Mr Swinton told insuranceNEWS.com.au. He said the company will recruit 11 new staff “in the coming weeks”.

OAMPS incoming CEO Keith McIvor says the changes will strengthen the leadership team. He takes over the top job from Peter Blackmore on Wednesday