Transition Manager

There are several solutions for finding an interim manager. As a general rule, the company that has a need contacts a recruitment firm specializing in the search for interim managers.

There are several forms. Either a firm that has physical premises that only works with this target of managers, or firms that have other vocations (traditional recruitment or hunting for example) and that have a department dedicated to interim management. For several years now, there have also been specialized digital platforms that allow easier and more direct access to interim managers.

Be careful, however, because the majority of these platforms actually work like traditional firms in a digital guise. To date only Manag-in.com is a 100% digital platform for connecting companies and interim managers. It offers the advantage of offering a more efficient service thanks to its “matching” algorithm specifically created for the interim management market, and this at a much more affordable cost than the appropriate firms.

Finally, it is possible to call on your professional or personal network by soliciting your contacts (managers, experts) and asking them if they can recommend someone to you. The latter option is more complex for the company looking for a manager.

To choose an interim manager, it is necessary to have made a brief as precise as possible on:

– On the reason for the mission, its content, its duration
– The technical skills inherent to the function that the TM will perform:
experience, sector, mobility, ADR, hard skills
– The internal or external resources necessary to carry out the mission
– The “soft skills” necessary for the mission environment,
the company’s culture, to the profile of the team
At Manag-in, thanks to our Matching which also includes a behavioural analysis (GRI), we can offer you at least 3 profiles in 6 minutes
matching your brief

An interim manager can help a company in several ways:

– To give the company the benefit of their experience and hindsight.
– Transfer skills to your team.
– Replace an employee at short notice.
– By breathing new life into a project for the company.

The areas of intervention are very broad. First of all, TMs can intervene in the context of the management of a team, but also to support a
manager in his need for personal development (on-boarding), as part of a project management or more simply as a consultant.
The different contexts of intervention are, without being exhaustive, in general the following:

Cash management, Project management, Crisis / turnaround / recovery, Accelerated digitalization, Mergers Acquisitions / MA, Growth management, Change management, Internationalization, Relay management, Industrial revival

It is possible to have an interim manager intervene within 24/48 hours minimum. The time for the recruiting company to be able to have a pre-selection of managers,
to meet the selected profiles (often 3 maximum) in person or videoconference and to offer them the desired framework of intervention concretized by a contract, often called
“assistance agreement”.
Once the manager is in office in the company, the MT is generally operational after a first week of discovery of the company, thanks to
to all the experiences acquired by the MT in a wide variety of sectors, company sizes and contexts. It should also be noted that in order to be operational very quickly, the MT must be oversized in relation to the position or function to be occupied.