Interim Solutions

Flexibility and specialisation:

Interim professionals offer businesses the flexibility to be able to attend to specific project requirements without assuming lasting obligations. They can be deployed for projects requiring specialised skills, enabling businesses to react fast to changing market requirements.

Access to broad expertise:

Interim professionals often bring with them a wealth of experience with a variety of projects and organisations. Consequently businesses can take advantage of their broad expertise, innovative ideas and best practices, which leads to effective problem solving and maximum performance.

Cost efficiency:

Temporarily hiring an interim professional can be more cost effective than taking on fixed employees. Businesses avoid long-term obligations in respect of salary and other benefits, resulting in cost savings.

Project management and execution:

For special projects that need to be executed in the short term and for which internal resources or skills are lacking, engaging an interim professional with the right skills and experience can be a valuable addition.

Restructuring and change management:

With major changes such as mergers, takeovers or restructuring operations, an interim professional with specific expertise can help in managing these processes successfully and carrying out the necessary adjustments.

Crisis management:

In crisis situations, such as financial difficulties, reputational damage or legal challenges, an experienced interim professional may be able to stabilise the situation and develop a strategy for a desired outcome.

We accompany you throughout the project process, from defining your project requirements through finding the right interim professional, ensuring that the expert starts on time, to offering continuous support during the project. You’ll receive a short list of suitable interim professionals from us within 48 hours.

Create clarity, define project requirements

Our consultants carry out an in-depth briefing with you in order to understand your challenges and needs. Together, we determine:

• the necessary skills within the team;
• the project experience that you expect;
• the professional profiles that best fit with your project structure.

In seeking interim managers we make use of our worldwide network to present you with a selection of suitable experts.

Selection of interim professionals 

In face-to-face or virtual interviews we assess both candidates’ skills and their compatibility with your business culture. We prepare the interview together with you, so that you can take the right decisions.

Making the right offer

We take account of the budget, the interim professional’s expertise and the market demands, to enable you to make the best offer. Thanks to our knowledge of the sector and of candidates, we know what is important for interim professionals.

Our IT interim professionals are specialists in their fields, with in-depth knowledge of the market and expertise that sets them apart. The following is an overview of their experience and the types of project in which they excel:

Examples of projects:

• Implementation or migration of ERP systems such as SAP, MS Dynamics, Oracle, Exact and NetSuite.
• Design and implementation of IT landscapes.
• Setting up BI dashboards with tools such as PowerBI, Tableau and QlikView.
• Leading change projects in collaboration with various stakeholders.

Areas of expertise of our IT interim managers:

Leadership/Management:

• CIO/CTO/IT Manager
• IT Management (architecture, infrastructure, cloud, applications, support, service, maintenance)
• IT Operations Manager
• IT Coordinator

Project/Programme Management:

• Project implementation
• Project migration
• Change/Transformation Projects

BI & Data specialists:

• IT Business Analyst
• BI Analyst
• Data Analyst
• Data Engineer
• Data Steward
• Data Scientist
• Data Architect
• Data Manager
• Chief Data Officer

IT Security:

• Information security
• Cybersecurity
• IT audits
• Data protection

Thanks to our network of many years’ standing and the lasting relationships we have built up with our IT interim managers, we can quickly select suitable candidates. This enables us, together with you, to successfully cover the assignments within your organisation. Furthermore we can support your organisation internationally. We’d be happy to put you in touch with our local colleagues in the country concerned.

Additional information:

• Interim projects can come about for various reasons such as sickness, leave, the need for external knowledge, backfill, project execution or bridging to permanent solutions.
• Every year we act as intermediary for about 250 IT positions and we have a network of 15,000 IT interim managers, with over 45 years’ experience in the market.
• We have recently worked together with various clients and supported them in facing challenges such as [example of challenge] by [Michael Page solution].

For further information and to discuss your needs, please contact us. We stand ready to support you with our specialised interim solutions.