The role of an Interim Manager in the Electronics sector
The electronics industry has experienced real expansion in France in recent years. In this technical, complex and exciting sector, qualified professionals have their place, particularly in supervising the manufacture and distribution of innovative devices.
The use of an Interim Manager particularly experienced in the electronics industry can prove to be a profitable strategy.
Why hire a transition manager in electronics?
In the electronics industry, recourse to interim management can respond to complex issues.
The challenges to be met are indeed sizeable in the electronics sector: we can cite in particular the increasingly aggressive industrial competition on the international level, the rise in the price of raw materials, as well as the environmental constraints which represent a real challenge.
In this context, an Interim Manager can, for example, intervene to respond to complex issues, of which the following are some examples:
- Support for a site to help it develop its industrial performance and increase profitability.
- Automation and robotization of a site: employees are thus freed from tasks with low added value and can devote themselves to more strategic tasks.
- Improved manufacturing and design process. The challenges are to save time and increase efficiency in the manufacture of specific products.
- Environmental issues: work on a site’s waste and implementation of a waste reduction policy.
What positions does an Interim Manager in electronics occupy?
Interim Managers in the electronics industry will be required to perform the following functions in particular:
- The Interim Manager may be required to carry out a management mission for a production site, over the long term or on missions strictly defined in time. He can also be hired temporarily in case of absence on specific missions in an interim logic (pregnancy, maternity leave, retirement). He then manages the site over a sometimes significant period, without losing sight of a results and profitability orientation.
- Often delegated in companies to ensure a mission of supervision of change management, the Transition Manager seeks continuous improvement practices and manufacturing and design processes that allow moving towards automation and robotization.
- The Interim Manager is sometimes delegated to support functions: Director of a finance, marketing, sales team management department. He must then have a perfect knowledge of the specificities of the electronics sector in business economics and the rules of company law.
What profile for a Transition Manager in electronics?
Interim Managers specializing in the electronics industry will have to highlight the following skills;
- Excellent knowledge of business processes, acquired through significant experience.
- Unfailing rigor and a keen sense of priority management.
- On this very field-oriented role, have a sense of contact and teamwork. Management and leadership, ability to federate a team made up of very varied profiles.
- An interim manager specializing in electronics will have to deal with key players in the company, such as members of the works council or union representatives, the director of human resources and other strategic entities. He will be called upon to work in harmony with these stakeholders in order to identify the obstacles to the implementation of the project and thus allow the respect of the execution deadlines of the project.
What price for a Transition Manager in electronics?
The rate for an Interim Manager will be approximately €1,500 per day in electronics. This price obviously varies according to different criteria: the size of the company, the complexity of the project, the duration of the case, etc.
The role of the interim management firm is to put companies in touch with managers suited to their needs, but also to precisely define the prices charged, according to various parameters. The firm therefore plays a cross-functional role, at the interface between a temporary recruitment firm and a consulting firm.