Onsite People & Talent Growth Architect

Onodrim Industries; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Onodrim Industries is building Europe's largest defence and industrial platform. Forward Deployed Operators embed inside acquired companies to map the organisation, design retention and compensation schemes, and lead the people workstream through the first year of integration across Europe.

This role focuses on negotiating with works councils, modelling retirement and knowledge transfer, and ensuring hiring and compensation structures align with plant needs while maintaining compliance.

Qualifications

• A degree in business, economics, law, psychology, engineering or a closely related discipline.
• 5+ years in HR, people operations or human-capital consulting, with at least 2 years as a generalist or HR business partner inside a manufacturing or industrial company – you have worked with shift patterns, wage grades and a works council, not only with knowledge workers.
• Hands-on experience with compensation: structuring pay grades, benchmarking against the market, designing bonus and retention schemes, and modelling what they cost.
• Working knowledge of employment law and collective bargaining in at least one European jurisdiction, and the judgement to know when local counsel is needed in another.
• Experience hiring for industrial and technical roles – operators, technicians, engineers, plant management – in tight labour markets.
• Strong analytical skills: comfortable building the workforce picture from payroll exports, contracts and HRIS data in Excel or similar, and presenting it to a managing director in numbers.
• Credibility across the whole organisation – you can hold a difficult conversation with a union representative in the morning and with the owner-manager in the afternoon.
• Clear, direct communication in English, written and spoken.
• Willingness to travel extensively and spend extended periods on site at portfolio companies across Europe.
• Right to work in the UK, Switzerland or the EU.

Responsibilities

• Map the organisation.
• Retain key talent by designing and negotiating retention and incentive arrangements for critical people.
• Review all compensation: analyse salaries, wage grades, bonuses and benefits against agreements and market.
• Work with unions and works councils to understand co-determination rights and build relationships.
• Plan for the ageing workforce with retirements, succession and knowledge transfer initiatives.
• Set the hiring strategy and build a pipeline for growth.
• Review policies and benefits for legal exposure, cost and fit.
• Lead the people workstream in integration through the first year after acquisition.
• Support due diligence by assessing the target's workforce and risks.
• Build local capability by leaving a functioning people team at each portfolio company.

Skills

HR strategy

Talent retention

Compensation design

Labor relations

Data analysis

English communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

HRIS/HR software

Payroll systems

Excel

Job description

Onodrim Industries is building Europe's largest defence and industrial platform. Forward Deployed Operators embed inside acquired companies to map the organisation, design retention and compensation schemes, and lead the people workstream through the first year of integration across Europe.

This role focuses on negotiating with works councils, modelling retirement and knowledge transfer, and ensuring hiring and compensation structures align with plant needs while maintaining compliance.