A leadership gap
Maintain operating direction and decision ownership while you recruit, reorganize or establish the permanent leadership team.
Transitional Executive Support
Experienced leadership for the work that needs to happen now.
When a leadership gap, production ramp or major change needs someone to carry it forward, VOR can take an agreed operating mandate and work as part of your leadership team.
Discuss a leadership needA DEFINED MANDATE
Lead the work. Build capability. Transfer ownership.
WHEN TO BRING US IN
Support through a consequential transition.
A change that needs an owner
Lead an agreed transformation, integration or manufacturing improvement effort across functions and through execution.
A business preparing to scale
Connect engineering, production, quality and planning around the operating capabilities required for the next stage of growth.
FROM THE DECISION TO EXECUTION
Take responsibility for moving the work forward.
The mandate defines what Liam will lead, how he will work with your team and where decision authority sits. The engagement can begin directly or follow an assessment.
Establish the operating priorities
Translate the mandate into a practical sequence of decisions, work and measures that the team can use.
Lead across functions
Resolve the interfaces between engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain and business systems.
Create a working management cadence
Make progress, constraints, decisions and ownership visible so the team can act on what matters.
Build the permanent team's capability
Develop owners, document the operating approach and prepare a deliberate transfer of responsibility.
THE ROLE FITS THE NEED
An agreed level of responsibility.
Choose the leadership or execution support your situation calls for, with clear responsibilities across your team.
Interim or fractional leadership
An agreed operations or COO-level mandate, with decision rights and time commitment matched to the business need.
Transformation leadership
A defined responsibility for carrying a manufacturing, systems or organizational change through execution.
Implementation support
Focused support to the existing leadership team as it tests hypotheses, selects solutions and puts changes into practice.
HOW THE ENGAGEMENT WORKS
A mandate with a planned handoff.
Agree the mandate
Define the outcome, sponsor, authority, scope and measures of progress.
Set the priorities
Establish the operating picture and choose the work that deserves attention first.
Lead the work
Make decisions, coordinate execution and adapt as operating evidence develops.
Transfer ownership
Hand over responsibilities, routines and open decisions to the permanent team.
Scope, time commitment, duration, fees and travel are agreed for the mandate. The Phase Zero assessment fee applies only to that separately scoped assessment.
BUILD CAPABILITY
Leave the team able to carry the work forward.
The permanent team needs the ownership, routines and operating knowledge to sustain progress. We build those into the engagement and agree how responsibilities will transfer.
Liam brings experience as an Amazon Director and Microsoft General Manager, alongside technical development, manufacturing systems and operational transformation work.
Liam’s operating experienceQuestions about executive support
Do we need to start with Phase Zero?
No. Phase Zero is useful when the operating question or scope needs clarification. If the leadership need is already clear, we can define the mandate and scope executive support directly.
Can you work alongside our existing COO or operating partner?
Yes. The role can support the existing executive team or take direct responsibility for a defined operating mandate. We agree the sponsor, decision rights and interfaces before work begins.
Is this an interim role or a fractional engagement?
The structure follows the need. We agree time commitment, onsite and remote work, expected duration and review points as part of the scope.
How are fees set?
Executive and implementation support are scoped separately from the $15,000–$25,000 single-site Phase Zero investigation. Fees reflect the mandate, time commitment, duration and travel requirements.
What does the handoff include?
The handoff identifies ongoing owners, management routines, documented decisions and any remaining work. Transfer of responsibility is part of the engagement from the outset.
START A CONVERSATION
What needs to happen next?
Tell us the outcome you need, the decision or leadership challenge facing your team, and your timing. We will identify where an assessment, implementation support or executive leadership can help.
Discuss your prioritiesliam@vorsolutions.com