Interim

An interim man­ager is some­one with exten­sive expe­ri­ence who has the spe­cific skills needed for a par­tic­u­lar project and can add value from day one. Impor­tantly for organ­i­sa­tions, interim man­agers won’t con­tinue to cost the com­pany money when the job is done. They bring expe­ri­ence and abil­ity to short-term projects and can ful­fil a wide range of oper­a­tional and strate­gic roles.

Interim man­age­ment is now a pop­u­lar choice for com­pa­nies look­ing to recruit for short spells and can­di­dates look­ing for an alter­na­tive to the more tra­di­tional company-based route. In the cur­rent eco­nomic cli­mate man­agers increas­ingly find they have bud­get but no addi­tional head­count; employ­ing a man­ager on an interim basis, instead of a per­ma­nent con­tract, means get­ting the job done with­out hav­ing to recruit a per­ma­nent mem­ber of the team.

Com­mon rea­sons for interim assign­ments that we have seen include replac­ing a project man­ager, fill­ing a gap until a per­ma­nent hire can be brought in, change and tran­si­tion man­age­ment, busi­ness devel­op­ment, cri­sis man­age­ment, turn­around, deal­ing with rapid growth and M&A activity.

Today’s employ­ment mar­ket needs flex­i­ble resourc­ing mod­els and, when it comes to sur­vival of the fittest, interim man­agers are def­i­nitely part of the solution.

It takes very lit­tle time to bring an interim man­ager on board. We can pro­vide a short­list of can­di­dates just a few days after final­is­ing a recruit­ment brief and can­di­dates are usu­ally able to start imme­di­ately and with­out lengthy notice peri­ods to complete.