Is your Lyon-based company currently facing a major challenge? Calling on an interim manager in Lyon or elsewhere in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region is a powerful lever for overcoming a decisive period.

WAYDEN is present in the Lyon region and regularly carries out interim management missions in Lyon. It is a very dynamic economic region that we know well, one of our historical partners being from Lyon.

A local practice in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

The capital of France’s second largest region (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes), Lyon enjoys a very strong economic influence, and is considered by more than half of the managers as “the enterprising city of tomorrow”. With a perfect knowledge of the challenges and particularities of the local market, we are regularly called upon to intervene in the region.

For example, one of our clients, the European leader in e-commerce, experienced a managerial crisis at one of its two logistics sites based in the Lyon region and serving the entire south of France. In less than a week, we deployed a system composed of an interim manager and a WAYDEN associate director to straighten out the governance for 6 months.

Issues

Managerial crisis, transformation projects, uncontrolled growth, absence and replacement of a key leader… We know the critical moments that require immediate reinforcement. Check them out.

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Sectors

With more than 100 assignments carried out each year in all major sectors from industry to tech, from finance to retail – WAYDEN has built a multi-sector expertise, which allows us to intervene where the stakes are strategic, with precision and impact.

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Functions

Our interim managers have already experienced similar situations to yours. They will be able to quickly identify the levers to be implemented and act with your teams for measurable results. Discover the functions on which our interim management firm intervenes.

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Your questions about interim management in Lyon

Why use an interim manager in Lyon?

The Lyon market is particularly competitive, with a plethora of talents and companies, so the expertise of an interim manager will be very beneficial in distinguishing you in this competitive market, and strengthening your competitive advantage. Our interim managers, experts in the local market of Lyon and its region, are also able to guide you if you relocate your company to Lyon, or if you wish to open a subsidiary or an industrial site there. Proven in the management of complex projects with major challenges, our interim managers have 15 to 25 years of experience in leading positions in Lyon and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Thanks to this exceptional know-how, combined with unique human and managerial skills and qualities, they will be able to meet all the challenges you are currently facing. They can thus intervene in Lyon and its region to ensure the survival of your organization when an unusual event or situation threatens its sustainability (crisis management, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, decline in activity, etc.). They will also be able to successfully support major change management within your company in Lyon (performance improvement, international development, organizational, commercial, cultural or managerial transformation, etc.). Our interim managers in Lyon and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region can also respond to an emergency situation, such as a crisis, and replace at short notice a manager, manager or other key employee whose position has been left vacant.

In which sectors of activity can you work in Lyon and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes?

At WAYDEN, we are able to offer you multi-sectoral interventions. Thanks to our pool of 8,000 profiles specialized in a very wide range of fields of activity, we identify, after rigorously analyzing your needs and challenges, an interim manager in Lyon who is an expert in your business (industry, retail, banking and insurance, construction and construction, etc.), and specialized in the function targeted by the mission (CFO, HR Director, CIO, Supply Chain and Logistics Director, Purchasing Manager, etc.). Operational as soon as he arrives in your organization in the Lyon region, this high-level expert will set up a relevant action plan, the implementation of which he will rigorously steer, through a methodology oriented towards obtaining measurable and concrete results.

What is your knowledge of Lyon's economic landscape?

Located in Lyon, our EMT WAYDEN has an excellent knowledge of the Lyon market and the challenges faced by the region’s economic players. Appreciated for its very favourable geographical location, less than 2 hours from Paris and at the crossroads between several European countries such as Switzerland and Italy, Lyon is becoming more and more attractive. Indeed, the third largest city in France, the Rhône agglomeration has experienced a demographic increase of 0.9% per year since 2011, and plans to welcome more than 65,300 new inhabitants by 2030. Major economic hubs in France and Europe, the Lyon metropolis and its region are also known to be the second largest industrial employment pool in the country. Lyon’s economy is supported by innovative growth sectors such as:

Clean technologies (around chemicals, the environment and energy);
Life sciences (with numerous research laboratories and the Lyonbiopôle competitiveness cluster);
Digital: Lyon is the 2nd largest digital hub in France:
Industry: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is the leading industrial region in France and the sector accounts for 18% of jobs.
The tertiary sector and business services: this is the most represented field of activity in the region. It brings together nearly 70,000 companies, including more than a hundred international leaders, particularly in the Part-Dieu business district.

Finally, with nearly 500 laboratories and multiple research centers, the capital of the Gauls is the leading center of Research and Higher Education in France.

Is your company based in Lyon and currently facing major challenges? Contact us now and benefit from the sector expertise, unparalleled skills and informed eye of a highly qualified interim manager.

Your contact in Lyon

Your local contact in Saint-Etienne and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region is Rémi DESSERTINE, Partner at WAYDEN.

A graduate in engineering, Rémi first worked in the automotive industry for several years before joining WAYDEN.

He is at your disposal to identify your needs and mobilize an interim manager in Saint-Etienne and the region who is able to respond to your problems. Originally from the region, he has solid expertise in the local market. He is at your disposal, in Lyon, Grenoble and elsewhere in the region, to discuss your needs and identify the interim manager capable of responding to your problems.

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Why WAYDEN?

Like the bird that represents our brand, we are dedicated to spreading our wings to help your company pass a decisive turning point.

Within our vast network of highly qualified managers and interim leaders, we identify professionals specialized in your sector of activity. These natural leaders accompany you at every stage to respond to your problem, whatever it may be: replacing a director at short notice, managing a crisis, making a major change…

We are boldly activating, with operational excellence, dynamism and responsiveness, the levers necessary to achieve tangible results, with lasting impact, within the deadlines defined in advance.