Service 05
Fractional leadership
A strategy can stall when no senior person owns the work across functions. Hiring permanently may be premature, while an external adviser may not have the authority or operating access to move decisions through procurement, finance, operations and governance. The organisation needs accountable capacity for a defined period.
Start a conversationWhere Enzyme comes in
Enzyme provides founder-led executive and advisory capacity inside an agreed mandate, with direct access to Andrew Cameron.
The role is designed around decisions, governance and implementation rather than a report delivered from outside the organisation.
From the outset, the engagement also defines how knowledge, documents and responsibilities will transfer to the client team.
What an engagement can include
- Mandate, decision rights and executive reporting cadence
- Procurement, sustainability or cross-functional programme leadership
- Board, owner and stakeholder briefing support
- Supplier, adviser and internal-team coordination
- Operating-plan development and implementation oversight
- Capability transfer, recruitment support and handover planning
What you leave with
- Decisions progressed through an agreed governance structure
- A documented operating plan, reporting rhythm and responsibility map
- Working templates and records retained by the organisation
- A handover plan and stronger internal ownership of the mandate
The mandate, time commitment and limits of authority are agreed at the start. Andrew works directly with the relevant executives and functional owners, with decisions and actions recorded in the client’s normal governance rhythm. The assignment can reduce as internal capability grows. Handover is planned rather than left to the final week, so the organisation retains the context behind each document and decision.
How the work is bounded
Each engagement begins with the decision that needs to be made, the people who hold authority and the evidence already available. Scope, responsibilities and review points are agreed before work starts. Where specialist legal, technical, ecological or financial advice is required, Enzyme identifies the interface and works with the client’s appointed advisers rather than presenting that expertise as its own. Recommendations distinguish known facts, working assumptions and matters that still require confirmation. This keeps the work useful for governance, procurement and implementation after the immediate engagement is complete.
Work can be commissioned as a defined project or as part of a longer advisory relationship. In either format, the client retains authority for investment, operating and implementation decisions. Enzyme’s contribution is to connect the relevant questions, make trade-offs explicit and leave a clear record for the teams responsible for what happens next.