Recommended interim service providers

We are delighted to publish summaries supplied by the leading interim service providers which work closely with the Interim Hub

1st Executive

1st Executive is the UK’s leading recruitment specialist within the Purchasing and Supply Chain market. In the 7 years since our inception we have demonstrated our dominance within this sector, outperforming our competitors by delivering innovative solutions to Europe’s most prestigious private and public sector organisations including 60% of the FTSE 100. A dedicated Account Director, Account Manager and Resource structure ensures that above all we deliver consistent results, from single appointments through to large scale campaigns. We source the absolute top tier of the procurement market, with an unsurpassed talent network of the brightest and most sought after candidates on the market.

Buyer to CPO
Permanent Recruitment
Interim & Payroll Solutions
Advertised Selection
Executive Search
Industry Wide Expertise

Alpine Resourcing

A privately owned company based in Fleet Street, London. Formed in 2003 to provide strategic interim management to Government and wider public sector, Alpine recently expanded its mandate to include Health and Life Sciences.

Underpinning everything Alpine does, are their founding values of Transparency and Integrity.

Alpines interims operate across a range of disciplines including Board Executives, Programme and Project Management experts, Commercial Management, HR and IT Management, Transformation and Transition. They will help you solve organisational issues that you may not have the capability or capacity to deal with, are ‘day one deliverers’ who are outcome focused and will, in accordance with our quality statement – ‘leave you better equipped….’

Burden Dare

Burden Dare provides interim managers capable of working within the top four tiers of large organisations where day rates are in excess of £500 to the interim manager or an equivalent permanent salary would be in excess of £80K p.a.. We cover all job functions from project or departmental manager up to Senior Executive and Director and pride ourselves in providing a personalised service finding the right people for roles that may sometimes be difficult to fill. We have a broad base of loyal clients which means that about 85% of our business is either repeat or referral by them.

Capita Resourcing

With extensive experience in the recruitment of experienced interim professionals, Capita Resourcing Interim Management is well placed to find you your next interim management assignment. Working across a wide range of specialist disciplines, our long established relationships with a number of public and private sector clients throughout the UK means we have a varied and regularly updated database of jobs on offer. Our experienced Consultants believe in working in partnership with their interims and understand the importance of keeping in regular touch, giving effective feedback and providing a good level of aftercare service once we they have secured you an assignment.

Curzon Interim Management

An affiliate of leading Executive Search firm, The Curzon Partnership LLP, Curzon Interim offers a pool of senior talent which is broader than most.

Our Interim Leaders are:

Calm in a crisis
Immediately available
Rigorously selected
More than qualified for the interim roles they take

We work across all business sectors. Our Cadre of professional interims include CEO's; Finance, Marketing, HR, Business Development and Operations Directors; and specialists in Mergers, Acquisitions, Restructuring and other Corporate Transactions as well as professionals in Tax & Treasury, Project Finance, Petroleum Engineering, Geology and Geophysics, Bid Management and Construction Project Management

We work at the top end of the Interim market. The calibre of Leader we offer is unlikely to be available at less than £1000 per day.

Digby Morgan

Established 22 years ago, Digby Morgan is the London-based international leader in HR recruitment services. Employing around 100 staff globally, the company is extremely well established and respected with a reputation for excellence and quality in customer service and industry knowledge. It has won Recruiter magazine’s accolade of ‘HR Recruitment Consultancy of the Year’ for both of the years that it has been awarded and also featured prominently in Recruiter’s ‘Hot 100’ with an impressive debut entry at number six – the only specialist HR recruiter in the rankings.

We are a recognised leader in the provision of HR experts for short or long-term assignments. Whether you require a business orientated generalist, a highly qualified consultant or specialist for a specific project, we have unparalleled access to first-class HR professionals who can make an immediate impact to your business. The strength of our interim and temporary register comes from the quality of the HR professionals we represent.

Executives Online Interim Management

Interim provider Executives Online harnesses the Internet to accelerate search. We deliver exactly the right candidates quickly, for any executive role, in order to redress loss of competence, maintain agility and protect competitive advantage.

What makes Executives Online different is our award-winning online talent acquisition engine which is deployed instantly, worldwide, saving you time and money. Each search of our Global Talent Bank we undertake is individual and specific to our clients’ requirements to ensure we deliver exactly the right candidates, every time.

We access talent online and globally – but our client service is personal and local, via our growing network of international offices.

Ezek

Ezek Talent Management is a boutique business offering a range of services including search, talent strategies and interim management. Our clients are Life, Pension and Investment companies, banks, lenders, intermediaries and industry associated businesses.

The interim division focuses on providing senior level talent for short or long term assignments across a range of industry specialist skills.

The Ezek partners have considerable personal experience of our chosen market, together with many years working on resourcing assignments.

Our values, unchanged in 16 years, are to be honest and to handle people's careers, and our relationships with clients, with real care.

Farrer Barnes

Farrer Barnes is an accountancy, executive and HR recruitment expert with a wide range of blue-chip and SME clients and a presence throughout Kent, Sussex and the South East.

We're now in our 18th year and from the very start we challenged just about every recruitment 'convention'. We'll never stop searching for innovative ways to improve our service to you.

Like most business services companies, the quality of our customer relationships dictates the profitability of our business. But that's not why we place service on a pedestal - no, it's just something we are naturally passionate about.

FRP Transition

FRP Transition provides senior level interim executives to work across the whole economic lifecycle of the business. The focus is on businesses ‘in transition’, a definition covering start up, change of ownership , growth, entry to new markets, operational and organisational redesign and restructuring.

Our network of interims covers a wide spectrum of industry sectors providing executive support in virtually all senior management and non-executive roles, ensuring the right skills and industry experience are applied to every situation.

FRP Transition has an excellent understanding of business both operationally and financially and is in an ideal position to understand company needs.

Gatehouse Resourcing

Gatehouse Resourcing is a resourcing and recruitment provider within the internal communications sector. We work with FTSE 100 clients to provide them with internal communicators on an interim basis. Our knowledgeable consultants source suitable positions for professional communicators and take pride in matching the right candidate to the right role.

What makes Gatehouse genuinely different is that we are part of Gatehouse Group - www.gatehousegroup.co.uk – a specialist employee communications consultancy, therefore, we work with consultants and clients everyday and understand their individual requirements. We are often first to hear of vacancies that occur due to our relationships with clients and take a genuine interest in all of our candidates, delivering a comprehensive personal service that other recruitment firms simply cannot match.

Green Park

Green Park is one of the UK's fastest growing suppliers of interim management across the Private and Public sectors. In 2008, Business XL Magazine named Green Park the 38th Fastest Growing entrepreneurial business in the UK, and we have achieved official recognition in the National Business Awards, Minority Supplier Development Awards, and the London and South East Recruitment Awards. In addition, members of our leadership team have been shortlisted as finalists in the Lloyd’s TSB Asian Jewel Awards, and the Recruitment & Employment Confederation Business Leader of the Year Awards, and longlisted for the Stelios Awards for Disabled Entrepreneurs.

We are a Minority Owned Business (MOB), Stonewall Diversity Champions, Positive About Disabled People Employers, and we are fully ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14000:2001 accredited, underpinning our commitment to quality and the environment.

Higher Talent Interim HR

Led by Jim Cressey, Higher Talent Interim (hti) is dedicated to finding and filling interim HR jobs and HR fixed term contracts. Our clients and candidates enjoy the support of our dedicated Interim HR team which has over 30 years’ industrial experience in the HR field.

We provide a collaborative, sincere and tailored approach working with clients and candidates to understand business needs and career aspirations to find the best fit all round. Integrity and honesty are key features of our service and are reflected in Higher Talent’s core values.

Hitchenor Wakeford Executive Interim

Hitchenor Wakeford Executive Interim provides experienced and talented interim and change management executives to PLCs, private companies, SMEs and private equity backed organisations for assignments in the UK and overseas.

Working alongside the Executive Search business we adhere to the same principles and high standards, enabling us to source the ideal interim to match our clients' needs. Our extensive database of interim executives has been carefully selected, thoroughly vetted and referenced so we can be certain they will be well matched to the challenges and culture of the client.

Hutchinson Consultancy

Hutchinson Consultancy has focussed exclusively on the Food and Drink industry and we are now one of the leading interim management providers of this sector. We have successfully completed hundreds of assignments and can draw upon over 15 year’s of successful recruitment within this sector.

Our network of handpicked individuals represent the best interim managers within the food industry - all our interims come highly recommended and have a proven track record of success within their various fields.

Our specialist areas are Operations, Engineering, Technical, NPD, Supply Chain and Commercial Sales.

Interea

Interea works exclusively within the life sciences sector, and is a leading provider of middle to senior level interim management to a large number of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and related companies. Established in 1998, we handle all functions, UK & Europe, full and part-time. Clients and Interim Managers tell us they have a high regard for our professional, yet personal approach to doing business.

INTERIMCONNECT

INTERIMCONNECT is the free to join network for skilled and experienced professional interim managers to network and find interim assignments. Since the network was formed in 2002 we have had held regular regional meetings for interims to network.

Originally set up as a resource of interim managers to other members of the network now Companies and other organisations have instant access to all of the 1500 members through the interactive web site and search facility

What makes the Interimconnect network different from an interim provider?

It is an “enabled network”. By that we mean it has an “embedded” fast and selection process to quickly deliver the right interim manager to the hirer.
Being a network it provides a no charge service to companies and organisations who engage an interim manager.
It is the largest interim network in the UK with a unique grouping covering every management function in both business and Public sectors. We have worked with organisations as diverse as the NHS and Baxters Food Group.

By offering such an exceptional service with rigorous selection procedures and preliminary vetting INTERIMCONNECT offers the best connections and the best value to all concerned.

Macallam Interim

Macallam Interim is a leading supplier of interim executives with many years experience successfully working across a number of sectors including Manufacturing, FM and Support Services, Industrial, Financial Services, Energy, Power and Utilities. It has an extensive pre-vetted register of interims covering most sectors and disciplines and maintains an in-house research function so it is well placed when faced with a particularly challenging assignment.

Macallam Interim helps clients going through Change, Restructuring, and Projects/Programmes and for a shortfall in Management expertise including Board, General Management, Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Operations, Manufacturing, Business Development, Marketing and IT.

Marble Hill Partners

Marble Hill Partners is an interim management and executive search consultancy which specialises in working with private equity backed businesses in the UK and Germany. We introduce executive level interim managers across all functions to manage periods of change throughout the investment cycle of management buyouts.

Michael Page Executive Interim

Michael Page Executive Interim is a market leader in the selection and placement of “professional” interim executives – proven heavyweights who specialise in resolving issues of this magnitude on a project by project basis.

We’ve placed 2000+ professionals with leading businesses worldwide in the last five years alone.

Working in close partnership with our colleagues in Michael Page Executive Search, we major in providing an interim solution that is as unique as you are. Whatever your assignment might be, however big or small your organisation or the task at hand, we can find the individual capable of realising your business vision.

Multilingual Executives

Multilingual Executives specialises in finding Senior Executives, Managers and Directors for roles where foreign language skills are a critical part of the search brief.

We work on behalf of executive search firms, interim Management providers and other recruiters.

With a unique database of multilingual executives based in the UK and globally, all of our registered candidates are proficient at doing business in more than one language including English.

We cover all industry sectors, in key functions such as general management, sales and marketing, finance, IT, operations, logistics and HR, for both permanent and interim roles.

Penna Executive Interim

We are a leading supplier of executive interim managers across UK, Europe and the Middle East. Our teams focus on individual sectors to provide expert knowledge and high quality candidates. Our consultants match the best candidates for cultural fit as well as by skills and experience. That means you receive a personal, bespoke service. High quality customer service and professionalism is key to everything we do.

PiR Limited

PiR is a brand synonymous with providing innovative senior resourcing solutions to life science organisations. As a result of our exclusive focus on the sector, we have an understanding of many of the issues faced by pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostic and medical device companies in the 21st century.

PiR offer a range of resourcing services, core to these are senior permanent and interim staff.

Permanent Resourcing Solutions
Interim Management Services
Talent Identification
Board Evaluation & HR services

PiR’s expertise is particularly evident across functions in high demand. These include Medical, Regulatory, Programme Management, Supply Chain, Market Access, Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR), Pricing & Reimbursement and senior level Commercial roles.

Randall Resource

Randall Resource is an independent recruitment consultancy specialising in the supply of interim and permanent professionals to both large FCMG manufacturers and smaller niche companies operating within the food and drink industry.

The company covers: technical, new product development, hygiene, quality assurance, operations, supply chain and engineering, supplying from mid-management to Managing Director level.

By focusing on the creation and maintenance of clear and on-going communication links, the objective of Randall Resource is to deliver solutions that are beneficial to all parties.

For more information please call Angela Haines, Founding Director on 07787 961093 or visit www.randallresource.co.uk

SM-J Associates

SM-J Associates offers versatile business support from experienced professional people on a project basis, tailored to the needs of your business. We help any business to meet any challenge by providing the right people, full-time or part-time.

We work with the full range of business size from start-ups to mature quoted companies. Typical projects range from straightforward financial management on a part-time basis up to Board level strategic consulting, IPO, flotation, merger & acquisition.

Our people are experienced in finance, strategy, business planning, treasury, risk management, compliance, sales, marketing, business development, communications, IT, systems, HR, logistics, procurement, and much more.

Transformation Leaders

transformation-leaders.com are the client service division of topinterim.com, a unique invitation membership grouping of around 150 very top board level independents who delight in working with company boards to deliver transition and transformation. Over 10 years now we have demonstrated that the right experienced independent board level skill-sets with the right defined deliverables can significantly reduce the risk of change doing wrong by deputing an already very stretched member of the board to lead that change. Not only that, our unique hiring process halves the cost of using conventional interim agents.

Turnoak

Turnoak, a specialist provider of Interim Managers and supplier of Consultants, been in operation for 13 years with a focus on Information Technology (IT, IS&T or ICT), systems, telecommunications, change management and ecommerce. We also recruit and supply executives from other disciplines such as Human Resources (HR) and finance, provide executive recruitment services for permanent positions and assist organisations with implementing critical ERP and CRM systems. Our clients range from small companies to global organisations across all industry and public sectors. Our interim managers range from project manager and technical specialist up to the most senior directors such as Chief Information Officer (CIO), IT Director, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Programme Director and other functional executives.

Veredus Interim Management

Veredus (a part of Capita) is the UK largest provider (as per IMA data) of senior interim managers in the UK. Veredus has an unrivalled track record in the delivery of senior professional interim managers built up over the last 15 years. We have a large and diverse consultant team of 28, many of whom have operated in the senior recruitment market for over 10 years. The value added by this knowledge and expertise is one of our key strengths. Veredus operates primarily as a generalist within public and private sector senior recruitment and has a large network of senior specialist contractors available to us – around 10,000.

VMA Group

VMA Group is the leading resourcing specialist within corporate communications, HR and change management. For over 30 years VMA Group has built long-term and trusted relationships with its clients and interims ensuring we are delivering the highest quality of service. VMA Interim Performers is our dedicated interim management practice. It established the HR interim management market for several years before expanding into the public sector to provide interim managers to government organisations across the UK. In 2008, VMA Interim Performers merged with VMA Group which enabled VMA Interim Performers to extend its offering to provide interim managers within the corporate communications and change communications market.