Electronics

Interim Management in the Electronics Industry

MANAGERIM provides you with transition managers who are experts in the electronics sector to help you meet your transformation challenges

The electronics industry brings together all the players involved in the manufacturing of electronic circuits, components and devices.

One of the major challenges of this industry is to provide the industrial base necessary for the digital revolution and energy transition, which requires mastering key and complementary technologies:

• smart sensors to collect data
• connected objects (IoT) to process, transmit and develop related services
• power electronics to support the energy transition and the development of electric mobility

To meet these challenges, companies in the sector are accelerating their transformation and must, in particular:

• Strengthen research & development and innovation efforts (R&D&I) and accelerate time-to-market
• Continue efforts to transform their production facilities to make them more competitive, flexible and scalable
• Accelerate the digital transformation of their tools, methods and processes across the entire chain
• Boosting continuous performance improvement initiatives in the search for ever lower production costs
• Rethink the Supply Chain

• Stimulate HR management policy, training, talent management and retention

• Optimize resource mobilization (energy in particular) and reduce the environmental impact of their activities

MANAGERIM, your interim management firm, expert in the electronics industry

Our interim managers are experienced managers and executives, all of whom have previous experience in leading transformation projects in the electronics sector.

They have developed in-depth knowledge of the processes and challenges of the various industrial sectors:

• Production of electronic components, connectors or printed / circuit boards,
• Design and assembly of electronic boards and electronic sub-assemblies,
• Distribution or editing of embedded software and software tools for electronic systems design…

They accompany our clients -companies of all sizes, in a very operational way, for a temporary period (4 to 12 months) in:

• emergency managerial situations:
  • temporary replacement of a manager (CEO, HR, CFO, plant manager, production, maintenance and new works, technical, R&D quality, HSE, purchasing, supply chain, marketing, etc.)
  • temporary reinforcement of a team
  • crisis management
• piloting a transformation project
• steering performance improvement projects in the areas of finance, controlling, HR, IS (ERP implementation, etc.)
• managing complex projects (launch, capacity increase, industrial transfer or site closure, crisis management, etc.)
• reorganization, restructuring, turnaround, merger or acquisition (M&A) programs
• specialized and specific expertise in:
  • Quality and/or Health, Safety and Environment – QHSE / HSE
  • Maintenance
  • Technical aspects
  • R&D
  • Social relations management
  • CSR
  • Communication
  • Payroll and HRIS
  • Legal aspects
  • Digitalization
  • PMO
  • …

Examples of functions held by our interim managers

Here are a few examples of the rapid and targeted provision of interim managers:

• Interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for an SME in the electronics sector: turnaround of the company in serious financial difficulties, restoration of performance (gross margin), cost reduction, restoration of shareholder confidence
• Interim Plant Manager for an electronic card manufacturer: management of the site, rationalization of production schedules and range times, strengthening of operational performance
• Interim Supply Chain Manager for an electronic equipment supplier: management of the Supply Chain and Logistics teams in relay management and redesign of the Site Planning (implementation of the S&OP)
• Interim Chief Operating Officer (COO) for a leader in the electronics and measurement instruments sector: management of a complex industrial transfer project
• Interim Technical & Quality Manager in charge of reorganizing the Maintenance in Operational Condition activities of electronic assemblies for a leader in the electronics sector