Director of a transitional industrial site, Frédéric Pernod testifies

What does Transition Management bring you?

Interim Management is the guarantee of a variety in the missions, the environments. This variety associated with shorter durations than that of employees increases the scope of experience and therefore of skills. It’s the impression of living your professional life at accelerated speed.

What are the constraints and advantages of this job?

First of all, the Transition Manager is integrated into the company . It is fully operational unlike a consultant. He is not constrained by the political games of influence within the company where he operates, in the sense that he works only for the success of his mission and not for his own professional career in the company. The difference is significant and therefore gives him a certain freedom of speech and a different listening on the part of the president.

Constraints are more private and related to the geographical impact of missions or the interval between missions.

How do you present your job to those around you?

It is a response to a specific need of a company, looking for specific skills. For the company, it combines flexibility by not being constrained by the social regulations of the workforce, and the ability to access skills that it does not necessarily need on a long-term basis.

What do you like about Reactive Executive?

It’s all summed up in the name itself. Both close to clients and managers for whom it knows how to bend over backwards, Reactive Executive delivers top-of-the-range services, always focused on client satisfaction.

What qualities are needed to be successful?

You must first be an expert in your trade, resolutely operational. The interim manager must both love challenges and resist stress. The typology of the missions entrusted today is oriented towards “entrepreneurs”, having the ability to “take risks”, to go beyond the framework.