Proteus
has been established since 1989 and has helped over 5,000 people
achieve their individual career goals.
Opportunities
arising from our broad network of private and public sector contacts.
The
UK market for interim management services is growing from an estimated
worth in 1995 of around £76 million to around £200
million in the year 2000. Expected worth in 2005 is around £430
million in revenues.
In
today’s business environment flexible and skilled workers
are very attractive to employers. Interims fill this need; the
employer can buy a mix of services for a particular time or project.
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Interim
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Introduction
An interim manager, or “Interim” as they are often
known, is neither a Contractor nor a Consultant.
A Contractor
is usually hired for a particular task like a programmer, tester
or maintenance person and is under the day-to-day direction of
a senior company employee.
A Consultant
is usually an individual or a team of people hired to resolve
one problem within a company that usually turns into many. Timescales
are usually expanded with no real idea of an end date. The result
is usually a binder full of recommendations that someone else
has to implement.
What
is an Interim?
Interims are appointed temporarily to senior managerial positions
within an enterprise, either in a functional role or to undertake
a specific short-term project. They are experienced senior managers
and Directors who have decided, for various reasons, to establish
an independent "portfolio" career as a dedicated interim
manager. An Interim is characterised as an experienced manager
or project specialist, available when needed, for as long as needed,
a doer (not an advisor), an implementer (not a report writer);
a manager (not a consultant); and he or she will be "sensibly
over-qualified" for the task, making for a minimal learning
curve and effectiveness from day one.
An Interim
becomes a part of the client's management team for the time being,
committed to all its objectives, and will quickly gain co-operation
and respect.
He or she
bears the hallmarks of impartiality, honesty and quality, for
the next assignment will depend on the reputation achieved in
the last.
Professional
Interims are senior executives with a lifetime of experience in
many complementary disciplines.
The Interim
typically works within their registered UK service company
So satisfying current employer/employee working directives. The
client (company hiring the Interim), will not need to pay National
Insurance contributions, Income Tax, holiday pay, sick pay, pension
contributions, bonuses, or car allowances as these are paid by
the Interim’s own service company so freeing up any client
liability.
The client will hire an Interim typically for
a 3–9 month contract. Longer periods are not uncommon.
An Interim brings to the client a range of skills
from board room to line management so that the Interim can both
direct and carry out tasks to meet service company agreed objectives.
The client pays the Interim’s service company
a daily rate for his services, via a VAT invoice issued monthly
to the client.
Other advantages an Interim brings to the client:
• Knowledge/experience transfer.
• Raises staff skills.
• Quickly available.
• Speedy delivery.
• Fixed term contract.
• Avoids long-term commitment from the client.
• Satisfies short or long-term skills gap.
• Less costly that a consultancy.
• Hands on approach.
• No overheads.
• Cost effective.
• Impartial…. etc.
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