Join the FRP Transition community of Interim Managers

If you are an established Interim Manager undertaking line management assignments at Board or Head of Function level, we’d love to hear from you.  If your specialism is more Programme Leadership or Programme Management assignments in relation to change programmes that engage at Board level, we’d also like to get to know you. Please follow this link which will take you through our registration process.

If you have most recently been in permanent employment operating at the levels mentioned and are contemplating a change in career direction to interim, we’d be happy to talk to you about the challenges and opportunities in the interim market and discuss with you not just whether your skills and experience point the way to a successful interim career, but whether you are temperamentally suited to it as well.  Both are important.

Interim Management does not suit everyone and a successful permanent career is not necessarily a platform for a successful interim career.   Something to bear in mind is that interim management is not a place where you get promoted, so a Finance Director with ambitions to be a Managing Director for example, is unlikely to realise them in the interim market.  Buyers in the interim market are looking to make a low risk purchase. They are not making a judgment about someone’s ability to perform in a bigger role; they want to hire someone who already has the breadth and depth of experience and the comfort with scale they need to give the buyer the assurance of successful delivery.

It can be frustrating if you are trying to become an Interim Manager that the market only seems to want to hire experienced interims.   For some this barrier to entry can seem quite high especially as there is a general reluctance amongst Interim Management Providers to give budding Interim Managers their first assignment.  This re-inforces the need to build and maintain a strong personal network and it is no coincidence that the vast majority of Interim Managers win their first assignment through personal contacts who have direct knowledge and experience of the individual’s capabilities.

Learn more about our interim manager assignments, read our tips on CV writing and register your details.