Challenges & benefits

Everything becomes more flexible: Corporations have to react to new market forces increasingly fast and precisely and therefore pave the way for a cumulative flexibilisation of work. The opportunities for freelance interim managers are better than ever.

The benefits of interim life:

 

Recognition

As Interim Managers are called in where clients have identified a lack of capable people in-house, your professional skills will have been recognised before you even start an assignment. As you begin to apply them, you can be confident your achievements will be appreciated – and any kudos that is attached to the successful delivery of a project will be yours

Accountability

Reporting directly to the client – often at Board level – and working almost always in a senior executive role, you'll be personally and often solely responsible for delivering your assignments on time and on budget.

Flexibility-Work-life-Balance

Interim projects last typically from 3 - 6 months, so you are very unlikely to be going to the same place of work day after day, year after year. You may, however, need to work away from home (usually on weekdays only) from time to time. Flexibility life and work the chance for an individual “work-life-balance”.  Interim managers can decide where, for whom and for how long they want to work.

Absence of politics

Interim Managers need to be objective at all times . They work independently of corporate-policy constellations and obstacles.

The challenges of interim life:

Working as an Interim Manager can present some challenges. The chance, possibly for the first time, to actively exert influence on one’s career. Interim managers rely on a successful career in a comparable field and continuously develop their professional skills. Additionally they possess the ability to rapidly adjust to various different environments.

Satisfaction and enjoyment

Being your own boss is seldom straightforward but being in greater control of your own destiny is the greatest reward of all.
In Germany only few interim mandates are procured by providers such as the Management Angels. So even if providers constitute an important sales channel, personal networks nevertheless are not to be disregarded.