Working with Firth Interim Management

Referrals for interim management services

Although many requests Stuart Firth receives for interim management services come directly from the company involved, his services are solicited in other ways:

• Accountants
• Banks
• Interim agencies
• Legal professionals
• Management consultants
• Other interims
• Recruiters
• Venture capitalists

Accountants

As a respected professional, you often know a great deal about your clients' businesses. You may also be the first to recognise when a company would benefit from outside help - either to help them grow more quickly or to resolve a short-term turnaround situation.

It may be that you've been asked to undertake special projects of a management consultancy nature. You may not have the resources to provide the hands-on general management help that could be the difference between failure and success. Firth Interim Management can help you by supplementing your own resources with a director-level executive who has a track record of profit improvement in sensitive situations.

Banks

You regularly review your client's accounts and will naturally notice changes in their business - which may indicate problems or opportunities. No doubt you will hold regular meetings with the principals of the company to explore how you can help them become even more successful.

From your experience, it is likely that you can suggest new strategies and tactics but will not be in a position to actually help in a direct way. Clearly you have your own financial requirements to meet and interests to protect. Stuart Firth has a long and successful track record of running a wide variety of businesses. To discover how he could help you and your clients please contact him now on 01422 824324.

Interim agencies

As an interim agent, you make your living by fielding the best candidates to your clients. Through Firth Interim Management, Stuart Firth already works with several of the top agencies.

A general manager who specialises in strategic analysis, change management and continuous improvement, he works in engineering, manufacturing and stockholding businesses selling into international markets.

To ensure that his impressive credentials are included on your database please contact him now on 01422 824324 for a speculative meeting.

Legal professionals

Solicitors are often involved when there is major change taking place in a company. This may take the form of an acquisition, disposal or change of ownership. You may be tasked with undertaking due diligence - some of which may be outside your area of expertise.

As a hands-on managing director, with an engineering, manufacturing and stockholding background and operational experience of international markets, Stuart Firth's skills and knowledge could well be complementary to your own. Whatever the corporate change project, Firth Interim Management is sure to be able to help.

Management consultants

You've done all the analysis, recommended the changes, the client endorses the conclusions - but who is actually going to implement them?

Perhaps neither you nor the client currently has the necessary resource in place and any delay may mean that everything 'goes off the boil'. In order to keep things moving, Firth Interim Management can provide that vital stopgap that is the difference between success and failure.

Other interims

There are so many opportunities and applications for interim work that the hardest part is matching supply and demand. It can therefore be in everyone's interest for interim managers to work together to satisfy the needs of the market.

If you are an interim manager operating in the engineering, manufacturing or stockholding sectors, contact Stuart Firth at Firth Interim Management to explore how best we can work together.

Recruiters

You've won the assignment, written the job description and candidate profile and started the hunt. The client is looking for a quality result - and quickly. In reality, you know that to find the right candidate, allow him or her to serve the minimum acceptable notice period and actually start work could take months. And how many times have you had a successful applicant give back-word just before the agreed start date?

Firth Interim Management offers a practical solution. Why not appoint Stuart Firth as an interim manager to bridge the gap? That way you have more time to do a job you can be proud of and can arrange a smooth handover to the permanent candidate.

Venture capitalists

The deal is 'do-able' - but there's a missing ingredient. Perhaps you need some due diligence work doing on an area outside your own speciality. Maybe the management team needs reinforcement for a short duration. It could be that an investment has hit the rails and you need a turnaround specialist.

Whatever the situation, you need to protect your investment. Through Firth Interim Management, Stuart Firth can help in a number of relevant roles; chairman, locum director, non-executive director, project manager, coach / mentor, facilitator. Give him a call now on 01422 824324 to explore the options.

If you're interested in working with Stuart Firth from Firth Interim Management or would like to discover how he could help your organisation please call him now on 01422 824324.