What is Interim Management?
Interim Management can be described as high calibre talent, available at short notice, (usually days), applied today as much to Professional Services and Middle Management as it is to Executive levels.
They are cost effective, make an immediate impact and leave when the job is finished. Available at short notice and highly experienced, they are results focused, objective, totally independant and have no corporate baggage. They are are a known cost, no indiect or hidden costs such as cars, benefits, pensions. Convenient and flexible expertise.
The best interim managers are characterised by certain qualities, such as their ability to make an immediate difference, their objectivity, their wealth of experience, communication and people skills.
- Our Interim Managers are highly experienced, with strong people skills that can immediately add value
Flexibility and agility. - Proven subject matter expertise when you need it and for only as long as you need. Freeing internal resources, knowing that the right person with the experience and expertise is in place.
Our Clients have gained major benefits:
- Initiatives and strategic projects successfully delivered, that would otherwise be resource constrained, ensuring operational and strategic objectives are delivered on plan
- Delivering the Return on Investment and Benefits through specialist knowledge and independent viewpoint, achieving profit and revenue targets
- Cover planned leave, bridge and enable organisation changes, enabling business continuity
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Interim Managers are not consultants, they are "Doer's". A key characteristic of our interim managers is that they are able to grasp strategy yet also bring to bear specialist deployment skills and realise the benefits.
Typically interim's will be overqualified for the role envisaged. They will have a wealth of experience enabling them to 'hit the ground running' and rapidly establish relationships with stakeholders. It is about chemistry at the end of the day and an interim manager enjoys the challenge of different organisations, engagements and lifestyle.
At Cream our proven process identifies at an early stage the personal characteristics of the individual and ensures that we only register those who meet our criteria and our candidate matching process ensures that we present the right people to our clients.
Our Interim Managers:
- Are happy to 'get their hands dirty'
- Are 'can-doers', communicate well at all levels and have the temperament to manage high profile roles
- Demonstrate sensitivity to client issues
- Are honest, up-front, and work in the clients best interests
- Speak from a position of experience with strong credentials
- Are concise, discrete and objective
- Are enthusiastic and exhibit strong leadership attributes
If you are a Client or an experienced Interim Manager and would like to know more about Cream Interim Management call 020 7559 6767 for an informal discussion or email info@creaminterim.co.uk
