HR Program Manager

Ontic; England; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Ontic is seeking an HR Program Manager to lead a critical HR transformation effort within the company. This role offers a unique opportunity to build foundational HR practices as part of a multi-year strategy, working closely with executives and project teams in a dynamic environment. The position allows for remote work with some travel, reporting to the Global Director of Talent Acquisition.

Benefits

Up to 29 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

10 hours paid volunteering time

Annual goal share bonus scheme for all employees

24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex HR transformation programs.
• Proven track record in job architecture and organizational design.
• Strong management skills in a global environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop program governance and manage multiple project workstreams.
• Lead the design and delivery of HR foundational projects.
• Collaborate with HR teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment.

Skills

Program Management

Stakeholder Engagement

HR Transformation

Education

Degree in Human Resources or related field

Tools

MS Project

Smartsheet

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Ontic, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineering parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, are now recruiting for a HR Program Manager to join our Human Resources team where you'll support us with one of the most important HR transformations in our company’s history — and we’re looking for a bold, strategic, and hands-on leader to help us shape it from the ground up. As we prepare to scale our people systems and practices globally, we are launching a multi-year transformation program anchored in an Integrated Talent Model (ITM). This role offers a rare opportunity to be the first hire into the program — laying its foundation, shaping its governance, and personally delivering the earliest and most critical workstreams. If you're excited by the challenge of leading both delivery and design, building a team around you, and setting a new global standard for how Ontic attracts, enables, and retains top talent, this is your moment. This role will be based at our Staverton site but is fully remote with some travel required. It is a fixed-term position for 18 months with potential extension. It reports to the Global Director of Talent Acquisition.

Ontic is a more than just a business, we're a community of innovators who pride ourselves on fostering a culture where talent thrives, ideas flourish, and careers are built. We're committed to excellence, driving us to continuously improve and adapt, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of our industry.

The Role

ITM Program Management

• Stand up program-level governance, steering cadence, and cross-pillar delivery rhythm
• Build and maintain the master transformation roadmap covering 4 project pillars and 36 core elements
• Act as the central link between HR leadership, business sponsors, and workstream owners
• Prepare and present executive reporting packs and decision-making materials for the ITM Steering Committee
• Track program-level KPIs, interdependencies, risks, and value realization
• Future Team Building
• Design the ITM project delivery org structure and define role profiles for incoming team members
• Lead hiring and onboarding of four project managers (one per pillar) and relevant project specialists
• Build a high-performance team culture with a shared delivery cadence and operating model
  
  

Talent Foundations Delivery

• Lead project delivery of all core components under Pillar 1: job architecture and leveling, skills and competency frameworks, org design, and rewards strategy
• Manage detailed project planning, timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder engagement
• Collaborate closely with HR SMEs, sponsors, and partner teams to drive alignment and implementation
• Produce robust project documentation: RAID logs, risk registers, change plans, stakeholder comms
  
  

About You

At Ontic, our culture is integral to making sure we enjoy our work and deliver for our customers. While we look for the right skillset, we're also looking for someone who will thrive within our recognition and empowerment culture.

To be successful in this role you'll need to have a proven track record in leading complex, multi-year HR or people transformation programs. Deep experience in managing foundational HR projects is required: job architecture, competency models, total rewards, organizational design. You’ll need to demonstrate strong program and portfolio management skills across multi-workstream initiatives, ideally in a global/matrixed environment. We are looking for someone that has experience engaging executive sponsors, cross-functional stakeholders, and change partners across regions. Proficiency in building and using project management tooling (MS Project, Smartsheet, or equivalent) is a must. You must have demonstrated success in operating independently to deliver outcomes while establishing structure from the ground up.

Benefits

At Ontic we care about your financial, physical, and mental wellness so we offer a range of benefits to support this, we care about what matters to you and have a valued culture of recognition and empowerment, accompanied by benefits that support work/life balance.

Our Benefits Package Highlights Include

• Up to 29 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• 10 hours paid volunteering time
• Annual goal share bonus scheme for all employees
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounts and offers from a range of retailers
  
  

Best place to work

We are more than the sum of our parts. And we’ve been recognised internally and externally for being so:

• We were ranked #9 in Best Companies’ Q3 leaderboard for Best Manufacturing Company based on our employee feedback
• 72.5% of employees who took part in our 2023 employee satisfaction survey said they are proud to work at Ontic
  
  

No day is the same at Ontic; we have doubled in size over the last couple of years and are still in rapid growth. We attribute our success to empowering colleagues to create the opportunity, fostering an environment of autonomy where we ask for forgiveness, not permission.

Our values

Our Values Are Intrinsic To Everything We Do

• We share a common sense - we’re a global family of specialists with a shared passion for precision.
• We have the freedom to choose - we’re challengers and innovators with the freedom to think differently and challenge the status quo.
• We create the opportunity - we’re change-makers with a clear direction and can-do spirit.
  
  

We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you'll enjoy a career with us!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing

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