Why MT-Transition: what the big firms don’t give you.

Four concrete differences: a 100% industry scope, direct access to the founder (no account manager), responsiveness commitments we actually keep (callback within 2 business hours, 3 targeted profiles within 72 hours) and managers who have already held the role, not converted consultants. The rest is talk; here is how it holds up.

Callback within 2 business hours · 3 targeted profiles within 72 hours · 100% industry

100% industry, no exceptions

We don’t do banking, retail, or services. That’s a commercial cost, and a huge benefit for you: the brief happens in factory-floor language, candidates are qualified against your specific field, and no one “discovers” your business mid-assignment. A generalist firm offers you a pool; we offer you peers.

You talk to the founder, not an account manager

At large firms, your file passes from sales rep to consultant, from consultant to “delivery manager”. At MT-Transition, from the first call to the handover, your contact is Mounir Telkass. Commitments hold because they don’t depend on anyone else, and assignment decisions get made in a single call, not a committee.

Numbered commitments, not slogans

A callback from an expert within 2 business hours. 3 targeted profiles within 72 hours. Start within one to two weeks. These figures appear on every page of this site because they structure how we operate. And every assignment is tracked against operational indicators (OEE, service rate, OTIF, cash) with a measured result at the end.

Executives, not consultants

The managers we present have run sites, production plants, supply chains. Many have worked with Mounir or been recommended by peers. They don’t produce recommendations: they take the role, decide, execute, and hand over.

Frequently asked questions

Compared to what? The alternatives executives consider

Before finally calling us, most industrial executives have already considered, and sometimes tried: at least one other option on the market. A large generalist consulting firm, first: solid on methodology, but rarely able to put an operator on the ground before several weeks of scoping. A traditional recruitment firm, next: effective for a stable position with no urgency, but poorly suited to a leadership vacancy that can’t wait five months for a process. An accelerated internal promotion, sometimes: appealing on paper, but often deprives the site of the outside perspective it needs at the exact moment that perspective would make the difference. A generalist matching platform, finally: fast in appearance, but treats an industrial leadership role like any other position, with no real sector filter. MT-Transition doesn’t try to be better on absolutely every criterion at once: we are deliberately narrower (industry only, operational leadership roles only) to be significantly faster and more relevant within that specific scope.

For more on these distinctions: transition management vs consulting and transition management vs interim management.

Still deciding between several firms? See how to choose a transition management firm: the criteria that really make the difference.

What “100% industry” concretely changes about the brief

This strict specialization is not just a commercial argument featured on this site: it materially and concretely changes how we qualify your need from the very first call. When you describe, on the phone, a degraded OEE, an OTIF failure, or a failed IATF audit, we understand the real stakes immediately and precisely, with no need for prior explanation of what these terms mean or why they matter. This immediate understanding saves considerable time in the qualification phase: often the slowest step at a generalist firm, which first has to learn the basics of your sector before proposing a relevant candidate. It also carries through directly to the quality of candidates put forward: a transition manager who has already handled a comparable situation in the same sector needs no ramp-up period before becoming fully operational at your site.

Why our numbered commitments aren’t a marketing trick

A guaranteed callback within 2 business hours and 3 targeted profiles within 72 hours are only achievable at all because MT-Transition’s entire structure is deliberately built around these exact constraints, not bolted on afterward for marketing purposes. Concretely, this means a single point of contact (Mounir Telkass) handles every incoming request directly, with no sales queue or intermediate hierarchical approval. It also means a pool of qualified transition managers, already vetted in advance, exists continuously rather than being assembled assignment by assignment: it’s this already-built base that makes it possible to propose 3 targeted profiles within 72 hours, a timeframe that would be impossible to hit if every search started from zero. These two fundamental structural choices (a single point of contact and a permanent, already-built pool) are exactly what a larger firm always ends up losing as it grows, and what we deliberately refuse to sacrifice.

What you risk by choosing the wrong option

The real cost of choosing the wrong provider for a vacant industrial leadership role almost always far exceeds the fees themselves, however high they may seem at first glance. A generalist firm that takes eight weeks to identify a relevant candidate leaves the site without a pilot for two additional months, with all the consequences already documented on our pages about the cost of transition management. A transition manager poorly matched to your specific industrial sector often takes several extra weeks to become fully operational: a delay the situation usually can’t afford. A generalist platform with insufficient quality filtering exposes you to the opposite risk: a large volume of candidates, but few genuinely suited to the industrial specifics of your role. These risks aren’t hypothetical: they are the situations we see come back to us after a disappointing first attempt elsewhere, with a site that has lost several precious months before finally getting the right support.

This observation is in no way a gratuitous criticism of other approaches on the market: each has its relevance for other types of needs. A large firm remains well suited to a long-term strategic transformation, a generalist platform is fine for less critical, less urgent roles. Our strict specialization on industrial leadership roles under pressure is not a claim to be better at everything: it’s a deliberate choice to do one thing particularly well, rather than many things averagely.

The best way to verify all of this ultimately remains a direct call rather than more reading on this page: within minutes, you’ll judge for yourself whether the difference described here actually holds up in the conversation.

Test the difference: one call, one expert, 2 hours.

Callback within 2 business hours · 3 targeted profiles within 72 hours · 100% industry

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