The Potential for Contract Management:

“Contract employment solutions” are the quickly rising tide of the future, providing businesses with all the advantages of highly-qualified, pre-screened applicants while eliminating most of the costly liabilities.  Contract employees can be engaged and disengaged at will—based on need or performance—without consequence to the business. And contract employees reduce costs, since they require neither vacation pay nor benefits from their contract employers.

Alternative management staffing strategies are now dawning as the ensuing wave of successful contract employment trends, providing growing or transitioning businesses with access to high level executives in time of need, with few of the expenses or liabilities traditionally associated with upper level employment.

High level, contract management can provide a wide variety of benefits to growing or transitioning businesses:
 

• When a business embarks on a new or critical project or direction, such as ISO 9000 implementation and certification, business process re-engineering, a shift to agile or lean manufacturing, rapid growth, downsizing or a relocation, contract managers can provide the expertise necessary to implement a solid, refined, results-producing system which can be transitioned over to less-expensive/less expert staff once the system has been firmly established.  And contract managers, as experts in their field, can assist in establishing the criteria for new employees in the departments they have helped form, often recruiting proven talent from their pool of experience or helping to asses the qualifications of outside candidates.

• Contract managers are available to work part-time, as needed, further reducing their cost over full-time employees. High-level professionals often require fewer on-site days to implement a stronger system which produces better results than less experienced individuals in their field.  Simultaneously, the high degree of expertise provided by these managers traditionally enables them to provide companies with a dramatic decrease in project implementation time, eliminating additional costs.

• Contract managers provide “out of the box” experience and perspective to existing management teams seeking new avenues, methods, knowledge and solutions.

• Contract management frees up existing management to meet the pressing demands of their specific departments when additional, temporary managerial needs arise within an organization.

• Contract managers can share tested relationships with ISO 9000 registrars, strategic vendors and other service providers—and typically negotiate better rates for an organization—when that organization chooses to move through historically uncharted territory.

Richard C. Randall successfully demonstrates a broad base of experience which qualifies him as a Contract Chief Operating Officer with an additional and impressive background in Quality Management System implementation—proven to reduce costs, rework and waste while increasing customer satisfaction (Mr. Randall recently completed an assignment as a Contract Quality Director for a major international service business).