Not only Goods and services flow around the world, managers increasingly work in a limited time for companies around the world. For your Expertise and your experience, there are no limits.
Leadership for a couple of months – so it was, when 63-year-old engineering Manager, Andreas von Bandemer from Frankfurt (Oder). Two years ago he received from the French group Imerys, the offer to direct a production plant for the paint industry. The former managing Director had left the Board, the Manager fell ill.
Andreas von Bandemer signed and started within a week of using the work. He motivated the 40-strong workforce re-thought production and delivery to maintain a SAP System and integrated the manufacturing facility piece by piece in the group. The production capacity was increased by 15 percent, the short-term costs of 150,000 Euro, the long-term to a Million euros reduced.
“Want to do anything else”
For Andreas von Bandemer fire inserts are “” normal – he earned his money as an Interim Manager. Four, six, or nine months, and longer, he comes as a leader in a company, to bridge personnel vacancies or to contribute its experience. The work is done, he leaves the operation and hires the next. 14 projects similar to the one for Imerys has implemented Bandemer since 2007. “I would like nothing more,” he says. Most of all he works across country borders.
Andreas of Bandmer
The Job for Imerys have given him a French and a German personnel service providers. Both are members of the WIL Group, which has a Pool of 38,000 Interim managers in the world. Imerys had asked the local recruiter X-PM France, to find a transition Manager for a factory. The found in the Pool of his German partner Andreas von Bandemer. Then everything went quickly.
Global networking of value chains
That Interim managers are increasingly in other countries, is because of the growing global networking of the economy. Germany is exporting in 2018, according to the foreign trade Association BGA Goods and services to the value of around 1.3 trillion euros, as much as never before. Also, the volume of investment by German companies abroad is expected to reach this year a new record amount, according to the German chambers of industry and Commerce (DIHK).
German Interim Manager, working for a few months in a company as a freelancer, and then go back, are in demand abroad. These nomads help German companies to unknown fields as well as in the case of Imerys – foreign companies, the German Management experience.
Not only German products are exported, also the German Manager
The business of the Interimer works in all directions. A Finnish automotive supplier will borrow a Danish Manager for a project for process optimization, a Brazilian energy company, hopes to be assisted by a Swiss expert, successful in staff recruitment.
1.100 Euro a day
On average € 1,100 on the day you have to pay for a German Top-Manager, as the working group Interim Management Provider has calculated. But the man – or the woman does not have to be incorporated, also, is immediately ready for use and does not generate any social cost, because the majority of Interim managers are freelancers.
As an intermediary between the company and the Interimer Provider, such as Atreus, GroNova, and Management Angels act. The latter has co-founded four years ago, the WIL Group. “This was overdue,” says Stephan Martini, for a decade, as a time Manager for medium-sized German companies from Denmark to China. Through the merger of the companies could now operate from a much larger Pool of managers.
A company in Asia guide – Interim managers are often “a firefighter and a consultant in personnel Union”
While international corporations can use a lot of Manpower and capital to their foreign prepare activities, am a “rather shirt-sleeved” medium-sized company in a foreign country are often helpless in front of the legal and linguistic hurdles. Who have no solid Knowledge about the local market, no idea about the national labour law, business and employment culture, need a Manager who has this Expertise. The company could learn-in-chief: “For smaller companies, an Interim Manager is currently abroad, a firefighter and a consultant in personal Union,” said Martini.
The demand is rising in Eastern Europe
The three countries from which the WIL Group members currently get most of the requests are England, France, and Germany. Strong demand from Eastern Europe is rising: “In countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic the economy is booming, unemployment rates are low, experienced Manager,” says Ricky Stewart that holds the agent Management Angels the contacts to the WIL Group is missing. In Eastern Europe one search currently plant Manager.
The majority of foreign requests according to German Interim managers coming from the automotive industry and mechanical engineering: “German executives will be happy to come because you expect them virtues such as punctuality and diligence. Such managers are true export hit.”
Recruiter Ricky Stewart
Many German Interimer like to go for a couple of months abroad, “apart from crisis areas”, as Stewart emphasized. Even specialists in Saudi Arabia he has to offer.
And how Interim managers from Asia, or North America against German companies? “Generally open,” says Stewart. “It depends very much on the competence and communication skills. I know medium-sized companies that would like to hire Chinese managers for some time, in order to learn from them, for example, in the area of Artificial intelligence, or Mobile Payment.”
The WIL Group has also taught a French automotive supplier, a freelancer from Luxembourg, with the consent of the French works Council. “In our industry, there are actually no borders between countries,” says Stewart.
Be paid to the professional Manager in accordance with the terms and conditions in the home country. To currently have relatively cheap British managers are on time, their daily rates, to 20 per cent below those of their colleagues from Switzerland, “because in England the supply of Interim managers is great,” as Stewart says. He is certain that this gap will converge over time, “Brexit, Brexit”.