Interim management
in Spain. Someone senior leading your entry from day one.
You have decided to enter Spain, or you are about to. Year One Partners takes on a defined interim mandate, led by our Founder & CEO with senior Y1P support where needed, to run it on the ground, coordinating every moving part until your own team is in place.
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The decision is made. Now someone has to own it.
International scale-ups rarely stall in Spain because of a missing form. They lose months because nobody on the ground owns the entry. Headquarters is busy running the core business, the lawyer handles incorporation, the accountant handles filings, a recruiter sends CVs, and the first Spanish customers are waiting for someone who can say yes.
An interim mandate closes that gap. Not an adviser who writes a report and leaves, and not a permanent hire you have to get right before you know what the role really is. A senior Year One Partners lead who takes responsibility for an agreed Spanish launch mandate, with its own scope, deliverables and methods, working alongside your leadership team until the business can stand on its own.
02 / The first months
What an interim mandate covers in Spain.
Every entry is different, so we do not sell a fixed programme. These are the phases an interim mandate typically covers. The order and depth depend on your business.
Book a 30-minute diagnostic callPhase 1
Taking on the mandate on the ground
Understanding what headquarters needs from Spain, who decides what, and what has to be true before the first customer can be served. One accountable person in the market, aligned with your leadership.
Phase 2
Building the local base
Coordinating the specialists you need, including lawyers, tax advisers, banks and, where relevant, regulatory processes, through your advisers, so that the structure, accounts and permissions follow the commercial plan instead of delaying it.
Phase 3
First clients and first hires
Preparing the first conversations with the counterparts that matter, supporting the first commercial discussions and helping you define the profile of the permanent country lead, whom you or your chosen recruiter will select and hire.
Phase 4
Handover to your team
Transferring relationships, context and open decisions to your own team in an orderly way, so the operation keeps moving when the interim role ends.
03 / When interim makes sense
When interim management makes sense.
Instead of hiring a permanent country manager too earlyA permanent hire is a long commitment made before you know what the role really needs. An interim mandate starts the operation and helps define the role with evidence.
Instead of relying only on a lawyer or a gestorThey are essential for the formalities, but they do not run your business. Someone still has to make decisions, sequence the work and talk to customers.
Instead of running Spain from headquartersRemote management works once the operation exists. Getting it started usually needs someone senior, in the time zone and in the room.
04 / What goes wrong
The expensive mistake is not the paperwork. It is entering badly.
The costliest errors are rarely legal. They are about ownership and sequence.
Typical costly mistakes
- 01Nobody senior owns Spain, so every decision goes back to headquarters
- 02Setting up the structure before the commercial plan is clear
- 03Hiring the permanent country manager before the role is understood
- 04Treating a Spanish entity as automatic access to the rest of Europe
- 05Letting advisers work in parallel without anyone coordinating them
Common objections
“We already have a lawyer.”
Good. We coordinate your lawyer, tax adviser and bank. We do not replace them. Our job is to make sure their work serves the business plan and that someone is accountable for the whole.
“We will just hire a country manager.”
You should, at the right time. An interim mandate helps define that role with what actually happened in the market.
05 / Questions
Frequently asked questions.
What is interim management?
Interim management means engaging a firm to lead a specific challenge for a defined period, here the entry into Spain, with real responsibility for an agreed mandate rather than only an advisory role.
What does an interim mandate for entering Spain cover?
Leading the Spanish launch on the ground: coordinating your legal, tax and banking specialists and, where relevant, regulatory processes, through your advisers; supporting the first clients; helping define the profile of your permanent team; and handing over to it.
Do you replace our lawyers or advisers?
No. We are not a law firm, an audit firm or a regulated investment firm, and we do not provide legal, audit or regulated investment services. We coordinate specialists without replacing them.
How are you different from other interim management firms?
We focus on international companies entering Spain, and the first conversation is always with our Founder & CEO. We are not a large network of executives and we do not have a sales structure.
Do you offer interim management in Madrid?
Yes. Year One Partners has its registered office in Madrid and carries out mandates in Madrid and throughout Spain.
How quickly do you reply?
We aim to reply within two business days.
“You have already made the decision. What matters now is execution.”
Year One Partners · Senior Strategic Advisors
06 / Next step
Book a free 30-minute diagnostic call.
A direct conversation with our Founder & CEO about your entry into Spain: where you are, what is blocking you and whether interim management is the right answer. We aim to reply within two business days. We are a small senior firm. Each mandate is a Year One Partners engagement, always led by our Founder & CEO; where the case requires it, he is supported by an independent senior collaborator working for Y1P, coordinated by him. Y1P remains responsible for the scope, the deliverables and how the work is organised.
Email us to book the callWhat to include
Help us prepare the call.
- 01Company name and website
- 02Home country
- 03Sector
- 04Stage (for example Series A, B or C)
- 05Target date for starting in Spain
Send these details by email to office@yearonepartners.com.
Scope
What we are, and what we are not.
Senior strategic advice and interim leadership for entering Spain. We are not a law firm, an audit firm or a regulated investment firm, and we do not provide legal, audit or regulated investment services. We coordinate specialists without replacing them. We do not provide staff, recruitment or placement services. We do not promise outcomes or timelines.