When a senior interim is in role and the operational work around them needs to happen at pace, we provide it. The conversation that starts the engagement comes from the interim themselves, or from the portfolio manager or board that placed them. Either way, the host business contracts the work and the support runs alongside the assignment.
On assignment support
We built this service because the same problems arise on every interim assignment: people need to be recruited, structures need to be reshaped, costs need to be brought back into proportion. The interim has the experience to handle all three but rarely the time, and the host business often does not have the right resource sitting alongside them. We provide that resource, configured to assignment pace, and step out cleanly when the engagement ends.
Recruitment support
Every interim assignment involves recruitment. Every hire made has the interim’s name on it, and we work accordingly.
We are researchers, not recruiters. We define the search properly, build a credible long list from real research and direct outreach, screen it down to people who genuinely fit, and hand over a shortlist that can go straight into interview. No volume, no keyword matching, no CVs that have clearly missed the brief.
The service is fast to deploy. We are operational within days of a conversation, and the work is fixed-fee wherever it can be, so the cost is known before it begins.
Restructuring support
When a business needs to be restructured, the operational evidence behind the plan matters as much as the financial case. The decisions that hold up under board scrutiny are the ones supported by independent analysis: what is genuinely surplus, what is load-bearing, and what looks like cost but is actually the connective tissue holding delivery together.
We work alongside the interim or the portfolio team to provide that analysis. The output is a restructuring plan with operational evidence behind every decision, written in a register that stands up to the board, the finance function, and the wider team without becoming an internal political document.
Operational right-sizing
Right-sizing picks up where restructuring leaves off. Restructuring asks what the shape of the business should be; right-sizing asks how to design and execute the change without breaking the operation in the process.
The work is practical: assessing where capacity can come out cleanly, where it cannot without consequence, and how to sequence the change so that delivery continues through it. The output is a right-sizing plan that is honest about what is removable and what is not, and a process that protects the business from cuts that look defensible on paper but cause problems in delivery.
How an engagement works
The first conversation is short. We are from the same world as the people we work with, and we read shorthand that other firms need explaining. A senior interim does not have to write us a brief: a quick conversation about the assignment and what is needed is enough to get going. The same is true for portfolio managers and boards.
The work begins quickly. Once the brief is clear we are operational within days, not weeks. Reporting lines, decision rights, and the relationship with the existing executive team are agreed upfront so the work carries proper authority from day one.
We work as operators, not as advisers. On restructuring particularly, we are there to help the interim or the portfolio team make hard decisions stick, not to explain why those decisions might be uncomfortable. The interim is running the assignment. The decisions are theirs. We bring evidence, judgement, and execution capacity to the work they have already decided needs doing.
The engagement ends when the assignment ends, or when the specific piece of work is complete. There is no nudge to extend. We would rather a clean handover than a relationship that drifts.
Fees
Recruitment support is charged on a fixed-fee basis wherever possible, agreed at the briefing stage and tied to the seniority and complexity of the role.
Restructuring and right-sizing engagements are charged on a day-rate basis, scoped at the briefing stage, with a clear estimate of the total work before it begins.
We do not work on success fees, contingency, or upside-linked structures. The commercial relationship is straightforward and stated upfront.
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