The “Business Leader” is the most comprehensive position that one of our team can step in to at any point. Whether it is acting as a Managing Director, Chairman, Commercial Director or Operations Director, these positions are virtually impossible to fill at short notice, often leaving a leadership vacuum in a business at the worst possible time.

Operating to a strict timeline on a temporary basis, a BlackBook Leader will work with you to identify the objectives and goals for your organisation during that timeline, and then use their experience and skillsets to achieve them.

There is a huge difference between a Sales Professional and a Sales Manager. A Sales Professional should be capable of prospecting, opening, delivering and closing sales successfully. A Sales Manager should be able to deliver the Sales Strategy and empower their team of professionals to perform effectively.

A BlackBook Sales Leader will operate to a strict timeline on a temporary basis, to create, implement and succeed with a short to medium-term sales strategy, supporting your business objectives.

This strategy will include provision for targeting & prospecting, sales data analysis, training & mentoring, and key account support.

Marketing is often by far the biggest problem department in most organisations. Not only because it is misunderstood by nearly all Management Teams, but because the expectations of its function and capabilities are so widely variable. A good Marketing function needs a Strategy, with clear Objectives and solid boundaries from the rest of the business. Finding Marketing Leaders capable of delivering this quickly and effectively is virtually impossible.

A BlackBook Marketing Leader has seen and done it all before. The product or service, size of the company, complexity of the market – it’s all irrelevant to an experienced Marketing Professional, because Marketing is Marketing.

Working to a strict timeline, on a temporary basis, your Marketing Leader will provide support on topics like the marketing strategy, marketing procurement, product management, PR and more.

Manufacturing is a carefully cultivated craft. Yet so often it is a craft that is misunderstood, mismanaged and fails to deliver the returns expected. The production process, the standards, and the materials that fuel the activity, they all need to be sustained and curated carefully to maximise efficiency and profit margins.

A BlackBook Manufacturing Leader is an experienced production manager who can help you start, or carry on, in the way that your business needs to for a profitable operation. You will be able to relax, knowing that your manufacturing is in safe, reliable hands.

Working to a strict timeline, on a temporary basis, your manufacturing leader can specify the production plan, maintain your stock requirements, manage your team, and continually improve how you make your products.

A recent trend for many organisations is to take their learning, training and development needs in-house. Often because they cannot find the resource and expertise from a third party supplier, or because it simply cannot be delivered by anyone outside of the organisation.

Then there is the serious decline in general educational standards of the pool of staff available on the general market. The cost of bringing everyone up to the standards that you need can be prohibitive. Thats why a BlackBook Learning Leader is a sensible investment.

Working within a strict timeline, on a temporary basis, your learning leader can create a best in class learning strategy, with all of the resources and infrastructure you need to deliver a best in class learning & development programme.