Business & Finance Operations Team Leader

Onodrim is building Europe's largest defence and industrial platform. A company that is buying manufacturers, launching products, entering new countries and growing its own team at the same time generates problems faster than any function can own them. The Business Operations and Strategy Lead is the person who takes those problems. You'll work across the whole business – with the leadership team, the deal team, engineering, finance, legal and the people running our portfolio companies – to get things done: design how something new should work, stand it up, unblock what is stuck, and use the company's own data to decide how it should run. Designing the operating model for a new market or region launch Building workforce and capacity models to keep pace with rapid growth Standing up an operational team for a new product line Using internal data to inform key decisions about how the company runs Take the problem nobody owns. Pick up the cross‐functional questions that fall between teams – a new entity, a new process, a decision that has stalled – and drive them to a result. Design how new things work. Define the operating model for a new region, product line, function or partnership: who does what, how it is governed, what it costs, what has to be true for it to work. Turn the design into a running operation – hire or assign the people, set up the process and tools, run it through the first months, and hand it over. Find where decisions, approvals, handoffs and tools slow the company down; Build the models. Workforce and capacity plans, scenario models for growth and integration, unit economics for a new line – built from the company's own data and used to make real decisions. Lead or support negotiations with partners, suppliers and counterparties where the arrangement has no template – and work with legal and finance to get it signed and working. Support the leadership team's planning and review cycle – objectives, metrics, business reviews – so the company knows how it is doing and decides quickly. Bring data to decisions. Pull together internal data from finance, operations, people and the portfolio companies into analyses the leadership team can act on, and make the data easier to get next time. Take cross‐functional workstreams in the integration of acquired companies – entity set‐up, shared services, reporting – where no single function owns them. A degree in business, economics, engineering or a closely related discipline. 5+ years in roles where you made things happen across an organisation: business operations, chief of staff, strategy and operations at a scale‐up, management consulting with real implementation, or operations leadership inside a growing company. A track record of standing something up from nothing – a team, a function, a process, an entity – and leaving it running. Strong analytical

skills:
you build the model yourself, in Excel or SQL, and present the one number that decides the question. Comfort with ambiguity: you have been handed a one‐line brief and turned it into a plan and a result, more than once. The ability to work across functions and levels without formal authority – with engineers, finance, legal, plant managers and executives – and to get them to decide. Clear, direct communication in English, written and spoken – a one‐page memo over a thirty‐page deck. We operate our business in English; knowledge of a European language other than English is beneficial. Experience in a PE‐backed or acquisitive company, including post‐merger integration workstreams. Exposure to manufacturing, defence or another industrial sector where operations are physical and regulated. Experience setting up operations in a new country – entity, payroll, compliance, local team – or launching a product line. Familiarity with modern data tooling (SQL, BI tools, data platforms) and with using LLM‐based tools to get analysis done faster. Experience negotiating commercial or partnership agreements with legal and finance support. Clearance in at least one of our operating countries.