Interim Management

A relatively new phenomenon; interim management can be defined as the usually short-term hiring or leasing of a specialist executive to address short-term tactical or strategic challenges, without any ongoing obligations involved with employing executives on permanent employment contracts.

If you need to flex your team and want good generalists, use a good generalist interim management agency. But if you want to deliver breakthrough supply chain performance and you don't want to take risks, then we can give you access to the best executive interim supply chain managers in the UK - now.

Specialists in Supply Chain Executive Interim Management

Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice specialises in providing outstanding supply chain interim management services; not simply by offering our clients good generalists, but by providing the best executive interim managers available in the UK for individual supply chain disciplines. Talk to Julia Hadley in our West Midlands if you're looking for an:

• Interim Operations Manager
• Interim Supply Chain Manager
• Manufacturing Interim Manager
• Purchasing Interim Manager
• Interim Logistics Manager
• Interim Purchasing Managers

Other Interim Management Articles

For further background, below are some introductory articles and case studies:

• Interim Management Introduction - Welcome to Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice, specialists in the provision of purchasing, logistics, operations & lean manufacturing interim managers and Big Four consultants.
• This article offers a definition, and argues that although the roles of interim manager and consultant are, in some ways, significantly different, they nevertheless share some common ground. Interim Management - A Maturing Discipline
• Interim Management & Supply Chain Consultants - the specialist focus of Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice is the provision of supply chain interim managers and consultants.
• Growth rates for interim Management in the UK are typically up to 20% year on year
• Interim Management Case Study 1 is a pan-European purchasing case study for a global petrochemicals giant across a range of packaging sub-categories. Assignment delivered savings of between 11%-50%.
• A post acquisition integration Interim Management Case Study 2 for an assignment with a commodity chemicals manufacturer. Agreements were in place to deliver targeted synergies after only 12 weeks and raw material savings of 20% above the client's annual target were delivered.
• A complicated supply chain post-merger integration which delivered synergies of £15m for the financial services client is Interim Management Case Study 3
• A transport management turnaround for a major domestic appliance manufacturer, is our Interim Management Case Study 4. The assignment eliminated large and unpredicted contract overspends.
• Cost of Interim Managers - this article provides an overview of some of the drivers of interim managers' costs.
• Typical Interim Management Jobs - this page gives details of a number of example assignments that our interim managers have undertaken..

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