What is Interim Management?

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 three to nine 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 obtain interim management because the role in question is not a permanent position or a permanent executive/manager cannot be found quickly enough.

Whatever the reason, interim managers offer major benefits:

  • Speed – they are available to start in days – with a minimum of recruitment and termination formalities
  • Experience – interim managers are overqualified for the work
  • Results – interim managers 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 – interim managers 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, interim managers will not be constrained by company politics, personalities or protocols
  • Delivery – interim managers can not only act as counsel to the Board – they will roll up their sleeves and deliver the strategy, too
  • Focused – interim managers can be assigned a critical task and their performance measured against it
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