Project management, support your transformation without losing your teams

28% of our assignments are project management missions. Our managers leverage methodology, leadership, and agility to achieve your objectives within the given timelines and budgets.

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Definition

Project management in interim management involves mobilising an experienced executive to lead a high-stakes strategic project – such as site openings, digital transformation, or industrial deployment – with clear cost, deadline, and quality constraints.

Use cases

When to call on an interim manager?

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New site
opening

A site opening project concentrates all the risks of a complex project within a few months: contractual deadlines, coordination of multiple stakeholders, recruitment, compliance. The interim manager takes operational leadership of the project from the outset, manages critical milestones, and ensures delivery within defined timelines and budgets. They mobilise internal and external resources, manage unforeseen events, and guarantee a controlled operational launch.

Digital transformation

Digital transformation is not just about technological deployment: it involves process revision, active change management, and aligning teams with new ways of working. A Project Director assigned by Delville Management ensures end-to-end program management, from needs definition to production launch, integrating business constraints, adoption risks, and quality requirements.

Industrial deployment

Launching a new production line, industrial transfer, multi-site ERP deployment: these projects demand simultaneous mastery of technical, human, and financial constraints. The interim manager acts as a senior project manager, coordinates operational teams and service providers, monitors key performance indicators (KPIs), and keeps focus on cost, deadline, and quality objectives, even under pressure or technical uncertainties.

Process
restructuring

Streamlining an organisation, redesigning a business process, or optimising a value chain are structural undertakings that engage the entire company. Engaging in interim management provides a proven method for diagnosis, planning, and execution. The interim manager identifies efficiency levers, brings teams on board, and secures the transition to new operations without business disruption and with measurable short-term results.

Delville process

How does a project management assignment work?

Implementing project management follows a structured process, ensuring the company benefits from a solution tailored to its specific needs. Here are the main steps of a typical project management assignment:

Step 1

Scoping and assessment

Before any assignment begins, our teams carry out an in-depth analysis of the project to be managed: scope, strategic challenges, time and budget constraints, stakeholders involved, and identified risks. This initial scoping is crucial. It determines the choice of manager, the roadmap, and the conditions for the assignment’s success.

Step 2

Selection of interim managers

Based on the assessment, Delville Management selects and presents to you, within 72 hours, interim managers whose profiles precisely match the project’s requirements: sector-specific experience, mastery of project management methodologies (V-model, Agile, hybrid methods), and the ability to take on immediate operational responsibilities.

Step 3

Launch and handover

The interim project manager joins your organisation and takes operational charge of the project from day one. They establish or consolidate governance, formalise the project plan, structure the teams and set monitoring indicators (KPIs, milestones, dashboards). The aim: to create the conditions for controlled execution from the outset.

Step 4

Project management and contingency planning

Throughout the assignment, the interim manager ensures rigorous project management: monitoring progress, adhering to deadlines and budgets, managing risks and unforeseen events, and coordinating internal and external stakeholders. They are supported by the Delville Management teams, with regular progress reviews to adjust the approach should project conditions change.

Step 5

Closure and handover

At the end of the project, the interim manager organises a structured closure: a review of the assignment, capturing lessons learnt, documenting processes and transferring responsibilities to the permanent teams. This stage ensures that the results achieved are sustainable and that your organisation has everything it needs to ensure continuity.

Testimonial

François Denis

GENERAL MANAGER - GEOTAB

Delville is an excellent interim management firm. The team is highly professional and excels at accurately understanding the precise needs of its client companies.

Pierre Magro

CEO - BABYMOOV GROUP

Professional, high-quality, and efficient team, even under pressure.

Nicolas Péjout

CEO - EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL

The benefit of the mission was immediate. Sylvie, the interim manager, successfully laid the foundation for a smooth, human-centric, and rigorous transition.

Matthieu Lambeaux

CEO - AGRIBIOTHERS

A highly professional team capable of finding the right candidates who match the expressed needs.

Jérôme Delanoë

PRODUCTION DIRECTOR - SFERIS

Interim management seemed like a good solution, and it proved to be.

Eric Gauthier

HEAD OF OPERATIONS EUROPE - WINDROSE

I needed people who had already worked with Chinese people or in China, because that helps culturally. [...] We were lucky to have two managers from Delville Management, who did an excellent job and helped us.

Guillaume Ferrand

INTERIM CEO - VALDUNES

Thanks to a methodical and people-centred approach, Valdunes has managed to overcome its immediate challenges.