Interim management gives you instant access to a senior ‘heavy-weight yet hands-on’ manager, with a proven track record, matched to your needs.
Interim managers are typically hired for 3 to 12 months and help organisations undergoing major change, trying to implement a critical strategy or looking to plug a critical management gap.
An organisation may choose to pursue the interim management route because the role in question is not a permanent position or a permanent executive/manager cannot be found fast enough.
Whatever the reason, interim managers offer major benefits:
- Speed – they are available to start in days – with the minimum of recruitment or termination formalities
- Experience – interim managers are overqualified for the work
- Results – they are only as good as their last placement – so track record and performance really count. They are used to being judged by results so they know how to deliver
- Knowledge transfer – they will transfer a huge amount of skill, contacts and experience to your team which will remain long after they have left
- Objectivity – while sensitive to the company's ethos, they will not be constrained by company politics, personalities or protocols
- Focused – they can be assigned a critical task and their performance measured against it
- Delivery – yes they can act as counsel to the Board – but then they will roll up their sleeves and deliver the strategy too
Like consultants, interim managers provide:
- The latest thinking
- Short-term access to top management talent
- Strategic capability
- An independent eye
- The ability to fast-track a critical project
Unlike consultants, interim managers are:
- Implementers as well as being strategists, analysts and planners
- Loyal to your business objectives – not their consultancy's objectives
- Flexible to do what you need – not restricted to doing things the way their consultancy prescribes
- Focused on your profitability – not their consultancy's profitability. They are not incentivised to sell in additional services you don't need
- More cost-effective
If you need an interim manager, consider this Resume/CV
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