 What drives the need for Interim Management?Studies repeatedly show that providing clients with experienced senior Director-level interim management professionals is a flexible and highly effective way of addressing their business concerns. Interim Management Provides experienced senior directors & executives on a short to medium term contracts, typically 3-9 months Interim Management is effective, fast, flexible, hands-on Interim Management addresses business development and change management issues such as: - Economic conditions and budget pressures
- A major change in business direction or service structure
- Market, cost or competitive pressures
- Cultural change
- Additional management skills to support existing team
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Launching a new product
- Major project resourcing
- Corporate recovery
- System or business process enhancement
- Unexpected illness
- Sudden departure
- Poor performance reports
The positive feedback we receive from clients is testimony to the added value an interim manager can bring to an organisation. The benefits of using an interim manger include: - Best practice
- Low overheads
- Flexible and versatile
- Specific skills when you need them
- No learning curve - self-starter, sensibly over qualified
- Hands-on where necessary - achievers rather than theorists
- Highly motivated resource - interim managers are measured by their achievements
- Costs are lower than consultancy - interim managers implement as well as advise
- No fuss finishing - the interim manager completes the task and leaves with no terminal bonus, no redundancy, no severance
Interim Managers play critical roles in the various phases of an organisations development | Growth | Business Developement | Consolidation | | Flexible | A broad range of operational and functional skills | Fresh skill injections into mature market | | Cost effective | A wealth of experience from a wide variety of sectors | Enhance resource capacity for downsized management teams | | Low risk | Increase chances of success | Manage investment, divestment or integration programmes | | Non-fixed cost solution | Transfer knowledge and experience to emerging management teams | Leveraging consolidated rescue |
All these phases of growth create challenging change management initiatives. Energy 123's professional interim managers who have proven track records in driving successful change management programmes bring a wealth of expertise to both private and public sectors, a broad range of different industries and organisations of varying scales and structures. Interim Managers are freelance business managers and experienced senior executives in their specialist area of knowledge Interim Managers come from all sectors, both Private and Public, with operational and functional skill sets including: - Advertising
- Audit
- Business Development
- Communications
- Compliance
- Executive Management
- Finance
- General Management
- Human Resources
- IT Operations
- IT Strategy and Implementation
- Logistics
- Management Assessment and Development
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- Marketing
- Operations
- Procurement
- Purchasing
- QA and QC
- Risk Management
- Sales
- Strategic Planning
- Supply Chain
- Tax
- Treasury
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Interim managers and Senior Executives registered with Energy 123 have moved into interim management from highly successful corporate, public sector or specialist careers within the energy sector. Aged from early 40's to early 50's, interim managers are typically: - Mobile, able to work flexibly in terms of time and location
- Energetic, task-orientated individuals, with first-class organisational and communication skills
- Experienced implementers with strong diagnostic skills
- Employees of their own independent contracting company
Whilst many interim managers secure their own contracts through their own professional or industry network, clients now increasingly turn to professional interim management providers. Why use a highly specialised recruitment provider such as Energy 123?Business knowledge and linksThe experience and professional network required to quickly and successfully service a client's interim management need. A register of highly accredited interim managersAs an interim management recruitment provider we spend substantial investment in building and maintaining a strong database of experienced interim managers. We spend a considerable amount of time on attracting interim managers, processing CV's, qualifying candidates, referencing and searching for the right candidate to fill the role. At Energy 123, we aim to build strong individual and group relationships with the interim management community. Lower RiskClients will be dealing with a highly professional interim management company who will conduct and perform duties by its professional ethics. Conformance with LegislationThere is a growing set of regulations and requirements covering employment law. Energy 123 has access to employment lawyers and other employment experts to ensure that we are best placed to handle the interests of both our clients and interim managers.
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