Why Interim Manager?

Interim Management is the solution for temporary projects and once-only, extraordinary operations which, according to industry experts, will become more and more accepted. This is proven by current growth figures of Interim Management in all traditional branches of industry. Your Interim Manager, who is an expert, is immediately at your disposal, wherever and as long as you require.

There is no risk of a delay for your project: Whilst your Interim Manager is working for you and enhancing your project, you can take your time and find the right candidate to fill the vacancy long-term. Together with the Interim Manager, you will then hand over an already established, structured and functioning workplace to the new staff member.

And if required and requested, an Interim Manager will be at your disposal to train a candidate even after such handover.

„Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.“

Henry Ford

Advantages of an Interim Manager:

For many companies, the use of Interim Managers is more than just gap management. Today, handing over managerial functions together with profit responsibility to a temporary external manager is more than bridging sudden human capital gaps.

The focus lies on procuring external know-how, optimizing structures and processes or securing professional project management. Below you will find a list of the most important advantages of Interim Management:

Usually, the Interim Manager is at your disposal within 24 hours from conclusion of contract. He can take on the new task swiftly and efficiently with only very little familiarization.

With the use of Interim Managers, companies can obtain exactly the experience and problem-solving expertise which is needed at that very time – for as long as required. Whether custom-fit qualifications or deliberate use of a temporary over-qualification: Interim Managers bring fast solutions for existing urgencies and bottlenecks in business processes.

Due to the vast experience of Interim Managers in answerable positions, companies obtain “mature” personalities with extensive authority and integrity who always act entrepreneurially.

Interim Managers are neutral / objective respectively not biased from a business political viewpoint and work without interests in status or power. They are focused and result-oriented on their tasks which are clearly defined at the start. Once the mandate is completed, there are no problems arising out of the manager leaving, social implications can be prevented to the greatest possible extent.

Furthermore, due to companies hiring Interim Managers, they are highly flexible in controlling personnel and management resources and can strengthen their own resources at short notice and on a temporary base. Interim mandates can be carried out on a full-time or part-time base and can easily be adapted during the course of the project.

With the use of Interim Managers, fixed personnel costs turn into variable project expenditure with a transparent cost budget. Pay-as-you-use: No social contributions, no vacation pay, no company car, only effectively delivered services per day at work (person-days) are invoiced. Due to appropriate contractual obligations and cost control with a very high cost-benefit ratio, existing mandates can also be extended or cancelled as required.
Know-how and best practices are brought into the company by coordinated teams and by making use of the Interim Managers’ contact network. Apart from their own qualities, Interim Managers also provide further options and important strategic impulses in order to solve existing priorities within the company.