Interim Leaders for Transformation
ACHIEFERS is an innovative premium interim management provider. We provide top-class temporary managers for critical transformation projects with chief level relevance and thus help company managers achieve goals.
Paving the way for your company's success
Our mission is to successfully guide companies with transformation needs through turbulent times and to provide you with the best interim managers for this purpose. For a competitive business location that also ensures prosperity for future generations.
Interim as a quality hub
Our goal is to establish interim management as an effective tool for increasing quality and efficiency in complex projects — as natural as going to a professional for toothache.
Strengthen SMEs and family businesses
Family-run companies and medium-sized businesses form the robust foundation of our economy. Many of them are world market leaders or hidden champions, yet they too are struggling with lack of managers and capacity limits for project initiatives. Interim management is often a game changer here in particular.
Mastering transformation. With passion and expertise
Whether it's business transformation, digital transformation, development of new business models, turnaround or restructuring — we understand the challenges that can cause headaches for management.
ACHIEFERS value proposition
We are so convinced of the skills of our carefully selected interim managers that we also offer a performance-based compensation component — because your success is our motivation.
Interim project management
We specialize in interim management to support successful transformation projects. Whether it's dealing with capacity bottlenecks, the urgent need for specific expertise or the need for results-oriented and neutral project management. Our ACHIEFERS ensure that your transformation project is implemented effectively and in a results-oriented manner.
Interim line management
Our experienced interim managers assume operational responsibility and help bridge vacancies seamlessly. In this way, our ACHIEFERS ensure continuity and stability in your core business processes.
Executive Search
Our executive search services complement our offering. We specialize in recruiting top executives and advisory boards for critical business phases such as transformations, M&A or carve-outs, particularly for private equity portfolio companies. We are the right partner for you, whenever speed and quality are important and interim managers are also an option.
Our motivation, your success!
ACHIEFERS - Our name says it all
ACHIEFERS stands for our central promise: to perform in order to achieve. Our interim managers and customers — mostly C-level decision makers — share this understanding and together make the company's success possible.
Our values
We embody commitment and high quality, paired with trust and humanity. Our interim leaders are characterized by a “can-do” mentality and the ability to sustainably strengthen companies and lead them into a competitive and successful future.
Success experts for your projects
We specialize in providing you with experienced interim managers for critical projects, particularly in the areas of digitization, software implementation, portfolio optimization, efficiency improvements, RE organizations and post-merger integrations.
Chief-level expertise in your team
Many of our hand-picked interim managers have held chief level positions themselves and now contribute their hands-on experience to projects — as reliable team players and on equal footing with management.
Selected network of excellence
With many years of experience in premium interim management and with renowned implementation consultants, we have a personal network of top achiefers who focus on achieving your ambitious corporate goals in the long term. In order to be able to offer you the best possible solution, we work with cooperation partners as required.
ACHIEFERS
Michael Lichtinger brings over 15 years of hands-on project and management practice.
After learning retail from scratch and working there as a sales manager for many years, he moved to a renowned management consultancy. There, he supported various family businesses and DAX40 companies in managing complex transformation and optimization projects.
For the past five years, Michael Lichtinger worked for the market-leading premium interim management provider in Germany.
With the aim of bringing together the best minds & makers for the transformation of the German economy and his enthusiasm for entrepreneurship and innovation, he founded ACHIEFERS. So that we can continue to benefit from a competitive business location in the future.
Our Advisory Partners
Our advisors provide ACHIEFERS with targeted support for strategic issues through their specialist expertise and extensive network.
What customers say about us
I'd love to go back.”
Dennis Lindhorst
CIO - BMW Financial Services Switzerland
Dr. H.P.
CPO - Fashion Company
Mr. T.
CEO of a leading cosmetics & cleaning manufacturer
On request, we would be happy to offer you a reference interview with former customers and managers who can tell you about our high quality and excellent service.
News, media & blog
News and insights: Stay up to date with ACHIEFERS.
FAQ´s
Frequently asked questions about our services. If you have any further questions, please write to us or call us directly. We are looking forward to your request.
Interim management stands for the temporary transfer of management responsibility to experienced managers for clearly defined tasks and projects. These “temporary managers” are characterized by their extensive professional experience and project management skills. With excellent communication skills, you can quickly gain the trust of management and the workforce.
This basis of trust is essential to overcome demanding and often complex challenges. After they have completed their assignment — usually after around 6 - 18 months — interim managers leave the company, whether after the successful completion of the project or when a permanent manager takes on the role.
Challenging projects: When special skills are restructured for one-off projects, such as the introduction of SAP S/4HANA or a business unit, an experienced interim manager with the right knowledge can take on this task, for example as a program or project manager, without the company having to provide this expertise on a permanent basis.
Bridging vacancies: Interim managers hold their position while the search for the ideal permanent appointment is ongoing or the designated position holder is not yet available. Even in cases where managers have to be released at short notice due to misconduct, for example, interim managers can alleviate the situation. In addition, necessary but unpopular decisions can be made at such a time.
Parental leave and replacement of illness: Interim Management offers a solution to avoid disrupting the hierarchy when a manager takes a break or fails due to illness. The existing structures and the expectation of a return remain untouched.
Unclear requirements: If the future profile of a position has not yet been determined, such as when there is uncertainty about the future of a subsidiary, an interim manager provides the necessary flexibility.
1. Initial contact and needs analysis
Focus on your needs: Together, we analyse the required competency profile for your project.
2. Selection process for interim managers
Targeted network search: We identify and contact qualified ACHIEFERS who best meet your requirements.
3. Presentation of candidate profiles
Personal presentation: Get to know our selected interim managers in a video call or in person — just as you wish.
4. Customer decision
Your choice, our commitment: Choose the ideal interim manager and we will work together to conclude a legally secure contract.
5. Project support
Accompanied success: Both the manager and our team are at your side throughout the project to ensure your success.
Practical implementation
ACHIEFERS offer power implementation instead of PowerPoint
Commitment to your success
ACHIEFERS operate independently of internal company policies or sales goals, with the primary focus on the success of your project.
Exclusive network of experts
ACHIEFERS bring 'partner level experience' paired with practical implementation skills to best meet your requirements.
Specializing in change
ACHIEFERS provide targeted support during transformation and restructuring and moves on as soon as the goals have been achieved.
Perfect synergy
Implementation consulting and interim managementDigital transformation requires teamwork. The best possible implementation of your projects is often achieved through the cooperation of internal sponsors and project managers, supported by an interim manager as an independent expert and sparring partner, as well as the responsible project management of the implementation partner.
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Non-binding consultation
We are looking forward to your inquiry and challenge. Please write to us or give us a call.
