Site director, production, supply chain, procurement, QHSE, CIO: access high-impact leadership assignments, presented by a firm that speaks your language.
Only leadership assignments in industry — turnaround, ramp-up, interim management. No consulting assignments in disguise.
Considering this career but not sure where to start? Our guide Becoming a Transition Manager details the career path, status options (employee, independent, umbrella company), and the skills expected.
You talk directly with Mounir Telkass, not with a platform. Precise briefs, real on-site context, clear terms before you commit.
Scoping, regular check-ins, support if difficulties arise: you're not left alone on site once the contract is signed.
An industrial executive who calls us is almost never, in reality, looking for an impressive CV on paper or a prestigious career path — they're looking for someone able to be operational from the first week, with no learning curve on the sector fundamentals. That's why hands-on shop-floor experience, not just consulting-firm experience, matters more than the prestige of the initial education. The profiles we present most readily have held an equivalent position directly, in the same sector or a sector very close to it, and have already handled at least one comparable high-pressure situation — restructuring, ramp-up, supplier crisis, leadership vacancy. In every candidate, we also look for a specific kind of mental readiness particular to transition work: accepting that you'll arrive in a team that doesn't know you, earning legitimacy in weeks rather than months, and stepping back once the assignment is complete without seeking to settle permanently into the role.
On compensation, the daily rate offered varies in practice with the level of responsibility, the industry sector, and how urgent the assignment is — we discuss this openly from the first conversation, with no gray areas. On legal status, the large majority of our managers work through an umbrella company (portage salarial) or their own structure (EURL, SASU); we don't impose a single status and we'll help guide you if needed. On average assignment length, it ranges from a few weeks for a crisis management assignment to more than twelve months for a site creation, averaging around six months across all situations. On geographic availability, we require genuine on-site presence during the assignment — housing and travel logistics are worked out with you before signing, not after. On support during the assignment, you're never left alone to face a difficulty: a regular check-in with MT-Transition, and direct support from Mounir Telkass if a serious deadlock arises with the client.
Generalist matchmaking platforms typically process a large volume of profiles with human contact reduced to the strict minimum — an algorithm matches CV keywords against assignment keywords, without ever checking whether the real context actually fits. MT-Transition works the opposite way: every profile is read personally by Mounir Telkass, the firm's founder and himself a former industrial operator, before it's ever sent to a client. This human review changes your experience in two concrete ways. First, you're never presented on an assignment that doesn't match your real expertise just "to see" — every profile sent is targeted, which avoids interviews that go nowhere and preserves your credibility with clients over time. Second, the brief you receive before accepting an assignment describes the real context on site — not a watered-down version meant to make signing easier. We'd rather lose you on an assignment if the context doesn't suit you than have you discover the on-the-ground reality after signing.
Once the assignment is definitively signed by both parties, MT-Transition remains present and available throughout the assignment that follows — not just at the point of the initial introduction. A regular check-in is scheduled with you, generally every two to three weeks depending on the nature of the assignment, to surface any difficulties before they get worse. If tension arises with the client — scope creep, expectations that weren't properly framed at the outset, decisions stalled for lack of arbitration — we step in directly to clarify the situation, rather than leaving you to handle alone a disagreement that could jeopardize the assignment. This behind-the-scenes presence is, in our view, what distinguishes a transition management firm from a simple one-off matchmaking platform: we remain responsible for the quality of the assignment through to its end, not just up to the signing of the contract.
The managers we deploy have, in the large majority of cases, between fifteen and thirty years of hands-on industrial experience, including several years in a leadership role before moving into transition management. Some come from a classic career within an industrial group, holding several successive leadership positions in different contexts; others already have transition or interim management experience gained through another firm or directly. What matters most, beyond the number of years, is the real diversity of contexts they've been through: an industrial director who has only ever known one site for twenty years brings less immediate value, on a transition assignment, than a profile who has already handled five different situations in five distinct contexts. We therefore value the variety of experience as much as raw seniority.
For the detail of what is expected — experience, seniority, technical and behavioural skills — see the transition manager profile and skills.
Once you submit your CV on this page, you will very systematically receive a personal reply — never silence, even if there's no matching assignment right now. If your profile matches a current or likely short-term need, a roughly thirty-minute phone conversation is used to precisely map out your background, the sectors and situations you genuinely master, your geographic mobility, and your availability. This conversation is neither a classic recruitment interview nor a simple acknowledgment of receipt: it serves to build, together with you, a profile precise enough to be put forward directly as soon as a matching assignment comes up. Your profile then stays active in our network, reviewed for every new assignment matching your criteria, without you needing to follow up regularly to stay visible.
If you're still hesitant to submit your CV because you don't have a specific assignment in mind, don't let that hold you back: most profiles join our network well before a matching assignment appears, sometimes several months in advance. It's this pool of qualified profiles, built continuously, that then lets us offer clients 3 targeted profiles within 72 hours — a turnaround that wouldn't be feasible if we had to search for a candidate for every new assignment rather than drawing on a network that's already built and already known.
Whether you're already on assignment elsewhere, considering a shift into transition management, or simply curious to find out what this way of working actually involves day to day, submitting your CV commits you to nothing: it's the starting point of a conversation, not an application for a single, dated position.
Your profile is read by Mounir — not by an algorithm. A response every time, confidentiality guaranteed.
Background, sectors, situations you've mastered, mobility, availability: we map out together what you're looking for.
You're only put forward for assignments that match your expertise — never sent "just to see."
CV in PDF or Word format (10 MB max). Your data stays confidential: it is never shared without your explicit consent, assignment by assignment.
"I read every CV. If your background fits what our industrial clients are asking for, we'll talk."
Mounir Telkass — founder
Mindset, assignment scoping, the first 100 days: a programme designed by practising managers, to move from an executive role to transition assignments.
