Transition Management
The methods of transition management allow a company to benefit from all the expertise and experience of an established manager in a specified time frame (usually less than one year), which will require strong personal commitment from an experienced manager in order to cope with what are frequently demanding situations. These individuals will for the most part fill Top Management positions: chief financial officer, HR or profit centre management. Alhambra utilises all its expertise in its search and selection of the best managerial profiles, with a view to proposing an offer of transition management.
Experienced people for exceptional situations
Transition Management assignments are often linked to periods of restructuring, even if more often than not, transition management is appealed to in order to respond to more traditional operational demands: the running of a particular project, outsourcing, and optimising outsourcing contracts, or in order to deal with the sudden departure of a manager. ...
Whatever the circumstances, this type of assignment reflects an evolution of management roles, whereby outside managers are called into a company and do not have the intention of joining it permanently. These particular positions can prove to be extremely profitable in so far as they can bring a new perspective and point of view to a business which is entirely dissociated from worries that may arise from future career prospects within a firm.
This type of assignment allows companies of all sizes access to the experience, the expertise and above all the operational qualities of top-level professionals, unlike traditional consulting assignments for example.
The specific character of transition management assignments
Responsiveness appears more and more to be at the heart of our preoccupations when it comes to transition management: the objectives in terms of a deadline is usually around 2 to 3 weeks from the time the request is made by the client to the hiring of the manager. This speed requires a process which differs from that used in traditional recruitment scenarios. The objective is no longer to identify several possible candidates, but to select the one whose skills and expectations best match the client’s requirements. ...
A transition manager will have previously been met by our team and will have regular contact with the firm in order to follow his/her professional progress. These steps are taken in order to facilitate an eventual compatibility between the candidate’s aspirations and expertise, and our assignment as quickly as possible.