Successfully Selecting the Interim Professionals

Successfully hiring the interim professional

The selection process for hiring an interim professional differs substantially from selecting a permanent employee.

The employee you hire you want to appoint for the position you have vacant now and develop into future positions in line with your strategy.

The interim manager realizes an assignment for you now and brings the skills and knowledge directly. What can you look for when selecting the interim manager?

Formulating the assignment

Outlining the assignment’s result will help you select the interim professional.

You can link an economic value to the result, giving insight into the budget you want to reserve for the interim assignment.

You want to reserve for the interim assignment.

Milestones

Outlining the execution of the assignment yourself will help you estimate milestones and duration.

Obtain internal approval

With the results translated into an economic value and, by extension, the budget and a summary of the project, you have everything you need to convince your management of your plans and the investments required.

From the assignment flows:

– Required expertise

– Is the assignment a project for which the interim manager needs project management experience

– Does your organization need (temporary) expertise to support a team – department, or product/service

– What change do you want to implement in your organization?

Of course, it can be a combination. In that case, it is still essential to consider the assignment’s focus.

Compiling the interim manager profile: are you looking for a specialist or a generalist?

Experience in the healthcare & life sciences industry, indication area, technology, or service.

To what extent will the experience contribute to the result, or will the experience accelerate the completion of the assignment?

The interim manager is decisive in all phases of the project and activities of the organization.

Under all circumstances, the interim manager can conclude the assignment successfully.

Even if the organization is not doing well, the interim professional has often managed a project.

Therefore the interim professional has a balanced and decisive personality.

During the selection interviews, you can ask how the manager has managed a project with a previous client.

Environmental orientation

Self-awareness & agility

Quick at cruising altitude

Working together and building bridges

Professional approach

You invest a large amount of money in the result. You, therefore, want to be convinced of the professional approach of the interim professional to bring your project to a successful conclusion.

– The interim manager knows how to get to the root of your problem

– The interim manager knows how to uncover the underlying problem

– The interim manager knows how to diagnose the problem

– The interim manager identifies the potential risks of executing the project

– The interim manager will know how to define the scope of the project

– The interim manager will draw up a thorough plan with clear agreements and evaluation moments for everyone (interim objectives & KPIs)

– The interim manager concludes the assignment with a summary and recommendations for the future, advice for safeguarding, and transfers their knowledge.