Interim Management

Interim management is an ideal way of engaging a highly qualified and skilled individual for a specific project or business problem. The use of interim managers in business is increasing along with the recognition that great interim managers can add significant value to a business for a defined period of time. They deal with the challenges set them in a uniquely effective way and are able to view a company’s landscape from a different perspective.

Not to be confused with temporary workers or consultants, interim managers have created a defined space for themselves in UK industry.

Some tangible reasons to hire an interim manager:

• To keep permanent headcount down during periods of cost reduction or business uncertainty;
• To drive a specific project, the outcome of which is handed over to the normal business operation;
• To accelerate change (often where there is a very broad scope of work to be done, perhaps even starting with defining the vision and scope, and with significant stakeholder management required both across and outside the company);
• To manage corporate projects such as a merger or acquisition, re-organisation, start-up, spin-out or turnaround;
• To cover an urgent or short-term increase in workload;
• To bridge a personnel gap while a permanent employee is found, or to cover unexpected absence;
• To replace a management consultancy that has previously been employed to advise on a specific project, normally costing significantly more than an interim manager.

Some of the more intangible reasons to hire an interim manager:

• An interim manager is focused on providing the best solution for their client – career interims know that their performance is critical to their long-term career and to be recommended for other roles;
• An interim manager’s sole interest is in delivering the required business benefits;
• An interim will take delivery responsibility and stimulate activity;
• An interim contributes from day one, and provides a comprehensive handover on exit;
• An interim operates in a can-do and ego-less manner, sensitive to the political landscape but not constrained by it.

Red Moon Executive Search works across most functions in your business (see Functions and Roles). If you have an interim need, please call us on 01993-864757.