Interim Management

We know that when you have an immediate need for a senior leader, you want access to high-quality individuals who are adaptable, high energy and make an impact. From business transformation to crisis management, our experienced team, integrated interim and search practices, and accelerated search process finds you the senior leaders needed to drive fundamental change.

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Major Change Programmes

Big hitting programme directors, with a track record of delivering major change programmes.

Board/CEO/COO

Turnaround and crisis management, senior interims skilled at steadying the ship and building positive momentum.

Finance Transformation

Transforming the Finance function and associated systems.

Commercial Transformation

Bringing structure, process, and systems to organises going through rapid growth or a period of change.

HR Transformation

Bringing transformative thinking and approaches to organisations, teams and people.

Digital & Technology

As businesses continue to digitise their operations, experienced programme leaders are needed for defined periods of time.

Our established Interim Management practice has a strong track record of senior level searches, including interim CEO and board placements, programme directors, Financial transformation, HR transformation, Digital transformation and Commercial transformation.

More than 200 senior interim placements in the last three years
70% repeat business
Only the best interim managers: our dedicated research team individually screens each applicant
Access to candidates not on the radar of other firms

We provide the dedication and personal attention of a boutique, with the reach and capability of a global firm.

Top Tier

We focus exclusively on roles at very senior levels within client organisations, and we work only with a hand-selected pool of Interim Managers that we know, trust and consider to be in the top ten percent of candidates on the market.

A Single Partner Team Globally

Global capability with the consistency of having a single partner contact worldwide, wherever your role is based.

Partner Led and Personal

Partners at Savannah conduct the work rather than oversee it and as such, are fully involved in the searches we run. You will receive our undivided attention from the start of the assignment through to successful completion.

Fully Integrated

One of the only firms where Executive Search and Interim Management teams work collaboratively together. Around 20% of our candidates come from individuals originally headhunted for an executive search.

Simon Gough has had a successful career of 10 years in interim executive search. Clients in the private equity and venture capital markets which are experiencing transformational change programmes and turnarounds turn to Simon when their portfolio companies, particularly at the pre and post-deal stages, require interim executive talent spanning the C-suite and board of directors.

Mike Faull has over 16 years’ interim management experience. He is highly skilled in recruiting senior finance specialists and programme leads to support clients through periods of transition. Clients with complex integration and delivery requirements, particularly in post-acquisition, call on Mike to deliver top Chief Financial Officers as well as Transformation and Programme Directors.

Kersty is the newest partner to Savannah and the Interim team. She has over 14 years experience in the executive search industry with a focus on Technology. At Savannah, Kersty will be looking to recruit interim managers within the Digital and Technology leaders practice.

Chris has over 6 years’ interim management experience, focusing on the executive end throughout. His specialism is within the field of HR, covering CHRO/HRDs and generalists, as well as transformation and HR vertical experts. He typically operates with organisations that are looking to renew or transform their HR function and how SHRM is applied to support business strategy.

Nick is an experienced interim executive recruiter. He has spent the past eleven years placing senior executives across a broad range of sectors and industries. Nick has made numerous senior executive placements including permanent and interim Chief Executives, Chief Finance Officers, HR Directors, and Transformational/Programme Leaders.

Paul has over 10 years’ experience placing senior interim managers into a diverse portfolio of clients. Through his network, Paul helps clients overcome a number of business challenges that tend to be centred around, growth, transformation, M&A, raising finance and turnaround scenarios.

Lucy Berkhout provides expert leadership to our research and support team. She has been with the company for nearly 10 years, and has a 20-year background in executive search. She has had broad exposure to a range of industries and roles at senior management and board levels. Focused on delivering the best talent, Lucy builds solid long-term relationships with candidates and clients.

Dan Porter is an integral part of our Interim Management team in London. As a Researcher, he provides intelligence that is essential to our candidate search process. Dan handles a broad range of appointments for clients ranging from SMEs to FTSE 100 businesses. He also helps ensure that our clients’ needs are met efficiently by managing our network of high-performing interim executives.

Our consultants have on average more than 15 years of search experience within each of their specialised areas, bringing unparalleled levels of expertise, credibility and trust among clients and candidates alike.

Savannah Interim Management works across a range of Key Sectors and Functions specialising in the most senior roles at the top end of the market, with the daily rate for an Interim Manager’s services averaging at £1000+. We are always looking for highly motivated executives to join our portfolio of Interim Managers.

Have provided our international leadership team with insight on where the best talent sits. Always extremely responsive, easy to deal with and a pleasure to work with.

Gabriel Carvalho, UK Head of Finance, Supply, Operations and HR

Tenacious and persistent in approach, brave enough to challenge our thinking to get a better result.

Simon Ramskill, CIO

Through their quick ability to understand my needs Savannah helped me re-build my senior HR Team quickly allowing me to focus on delivering the Business Agenda. Great service, great pace!

Karen Myers , Group Human Resources Director

We’re in the market everyday talking to clients and interim managers, so when a change or transformation brief comes up, we often instinctively know two or three candidates who we think would be a good fit.

Rather than stopping there, our dedicated research team then runs an accelerated headhunting search for interims who have the right background and experience, as well as collaborating with our permanent search colleagues. Perfecting this integrated approach with search means that around 20% of our interim placements come from candidates that have been headhunted for other roles and simply wouldn’t be on the radar of other firms.

Our conversations with Private Equity houses often start with a problem within a portfolio company that either an interim or consultancy solution can resolve. Usually, the transformation required precedes a permanent hire, something our businesses can work hand in hand on.

We offer a comprehensive range of services to PE across the whole investment lifecycle. We can support you with high caliber individuals to help from the pre- investment stage, to assisting your teams during the transformation and value creation stage.

An essential component of our hiring process is to understand what success looks like over a 3, 6, 9 and 12 month duration.

Our Partners will always want to discuss the value the interim manager can bring and what we can do to ensure we bring the right skill sets to the assignment.

As a high percentage of our work is derived from problems within portfolio companies we have to be able to work fast. Our typical turnaround from briefing to shortlist is between one and four days, usually with two to three individuals to consider. Duration for a typical interim hire can be anything from three to eighteen months.

We are one of the only firms to have a truly integrated search and interim offering, able to provide short term tactical and long term strategic hiring solutions. This provides clients access to the human capital resources they need right now, whatever maturity stage your business is in.