Forward Deployed Operator - People & Talent
About the role
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Onodrim is building Europe's largest defence and industrial platform. We acquire specialist manufacturers in critical defence and dual-use supply chains, then invest behind their growth with capital, technology and operating know-how.
Forward Deployed Operators are Onodrim's people on the ground. You'll embed inside the companies we acquire – plants, lines and the offices that run them – and own one part of making them grow. For this role, that part is the people.
The manufacturers we buy are often decades old, family- or founder-run, with a workforce that holds the real know-how and is getting older, pay structures that have grown by accretion, and HR practices that live in a spreadsheet and one person's head. The Forward Deployed Operator for People & Talent walks in after an acquisition and builds the full picture: who the key people are and how to keep them, what everyone is paid and whether it makes sense, what the collective agreements and union relationships require, where the next retirements will leave a gap, and what it will take to hire the people growth needs. Then you fix what matters, with the company's own management, and stay until it sticks.
This is not a policy-writing job. One week you'll be sitting with a works council; the next, modelling a retention scheme for twelve critical operators; the next, interviewing for a production manager the plant has needed for two years. It is what a Head of People does for a company, done repeatedly across our portfolio.
What you'll do
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- Map the organisation. In the first weeks on site, build the real org chart – who decides, who knows, who the workforce follows – and identify the people the business cannot afford to lose.
- Retain key talent. Design and negotiate retention and inc...
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