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# **A critical phase to manage? You need an interim manager.**
**Sudden departure, transformation, crisis, ramp-up: we introduce you to experienced, immediately available executives within 72 hours. The mission can start within the week.**
[**Describe my situation**](https://www.actualgroup.com/entreprises/contact) [**Discover our solutions**](https://www.actualgroup.com/entreprises/solutions/skipper-by-actual)
**+32 000 entreprises font déjà confiance à Actual**
**Your challenges**
## **These situations have two things in common: they can't wait, and they are unforgiving.**
A Chief Financial Officer leaving overnight. A post-acquisition integration losing momentum. A facility that needs to double its output. Cash flow under pressure. Each time, the same equation: the role is critical, the timeline is immediate, and any mistake would be costly.
Recruiting an executive takes six to nine months, which you don't have. Promoting in a rush means adding risk to risk. What you need is someone who has already navigated your situation: operational from week one, with no career stakes within your company, fully focused on the mission.
That is exactly what an interim manager is. And that is exactly who we introduce you to.
[Describe your situation](https://skipper.actual-talent.com/client/need)
**72h**
to receive 3 qualified interim managers
**7 days**
The mission can start in 1 week
**1**
dedicated consultant, bound by confidentiality
**0**
friction: contract & invoicing fully managed
## **Four situations where interim management is the right answer.**
**Short-notice replacement**
### **Our executive left overnight.**
CFO, HRD, site director: the position cannot remain vacant during a recruitment process. An interim manager holds the fort, secures the essentials, and lets you recruit their successor with peace of mind.
**Transformation**
### **This transformation is beyond our teams' scope.**
Reorganisation, digitisation, new model: your teams know their job, but not how to manage this specific change. An executive who has already led it elsewhere will drive it for you and pass on the methodology.
**Sensitive situation**
### **We are going through a turbulent period.**
Cash flow under pressure, tense labour relations, partners to reassure: a crisis demands an experienced hand and an objective outside perspective, free from internal politics.
**Growth & structuring**
### **We are growing faster than our organisation.**
External growth, ramp-up, structuring a function: success creates urgency. An interim manager sets up the structure needed to absorb it.
## **We cover all executive positions**
Industry, finance, healthcare, tech, retail, public sector... Executives who know your industry, not just their job.
### **CEO, MD, BU Director, Finance Department**
### **CFO, cash management, financial restructuring**
### **BU Director**
### **Operations management, industrial management, site, supply chain**
### **Sales & Marketing management, sales management, development**
### **Technology Management, CIO, CTO, digital transformation**
### **People & Talents Management, HRD, labour relations, integration**
[**You describe the situation, in complete confidentiality.**
The challenge, the context, the timeline. By phone or online, it stays between us.](https://www.actualgroup.com/en/entreprises/contact)
### **You receive profiles of people who have already experienced your situation.**
Within 72 hours: seasoned leaders with verified experience, available immediately. Not just promising CVs, but comparable situations already successfully navigated.
### **A senior consultant calls you back within the day.**
They define the scope of the mission with you: the exact mandate, the expected results, the duration. They will support you from start to finish.
[**The mission begins, the consultant stays.**
Start of the assignment possible within the week. Regular progress reviews, adjusted mandate if the situation evolves, contract and billing fully handled. And from day one, the manager prepares their exit: the handover is part of the mission.](https://www.actualgroup.com/en/entreprises/contact)
## **Three critical situations, Three managed missions**
### **Interim CFO · Association**
Sudden departure of the financial director, cash flow under pressure. The mission: secure short-term cash flow, make reporting reliable, and reassure banking partners to guarantee business continuity.
### **Interim HRD · Healthcare mid-cap**
External growth: integrating a new entity while stabilising labour relations. The mission: harmonising cultures and structures under cross-functional HR leadership, while supervising the existing teams.
### **Interim Site Director · Aeronautics Industry**
Sharp increase in orders, ramp-up to be secured. The mission: steer operational acceleration while mastering recruitment, procurement, and labor relations.
### **Testimonial from Sophie M. • CEO, Industrial Mid-cap**
"To replace our CFO urgently, we were presented with three qualified interim managers within 72 hours. The mission started within the week."
**FAQ**
## **The questions you have. And our straightforward answers.**
It’s often quite the opposite: with no career stakes or internal politics, the interim manager is judged on one thing alone: their competence. Their experience in similar situations does the rest.
Your situation is only shared with the candidates you agree to meet, under a confidentiality agreement. With us, it doesn't circulate: one consultant, one file.
A good interim manager works to make themselves redundant. The handover to the teams, or to the leader you recruit, is integrated into the mandate from day one. You keep the organization, the tools, and the expertise.
## **Need expertise to produce, rather than a leader to steer?**
A project to accelerate, a specialized skill to mobilize within a specific scope: you don't need an interim manager, you need a freelancer.
[Learn more](https://www.actualgroup.com/en/companies/needs/freelance)
## Critical phases leave no room for improvisation
**Our interim managers do not improvise. They have already been in your situation.**
Describe your situation to us in complete confidence. A senior consultant will call you back within the day and present you within 72 hours with leaders who have already been through what you are experiencing.
[Request a callback](https://www.actualgroup.com/en/entreprises/contact)
**Let's talk about your needs**
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