Jobs in support functions

Support functions job family

Strategy

Vision and tasks

Strategy teams help the Executive Committee to analyse the industry and competition in order to define and formalise the Group’s global strategy. They coordinate relations with the subsidiaries, including mergers and acquisitions, in close collaboration with legal, finance, operations and programme teams. They oversee and manage relations with the shareholders and parent companies, and communicate corporate strategy across company departments.

Role and responsibilities

• Monitoring and analysing competitiveness and performance of ArianeGroup’s different business activities, in collaboration with the departments concerned
• Preparing corporate strategies in order to help the Executive Committee to make decisions

Jobs

• Economic intelligence and analysis
• Strategic analysis

Human resources

Vision and tasks

Human resources teams are a fundamental support for the business to meet current and future challenges by assisting company teams to manage change, integration and transformation. HR teams work closely with employees across departments to ensure that people feel fulfilled in their jobs, and have the proper tools to perform them. They foster employee engagement, promote upskilling through training, and oversee mobility within the Group.

Role and responsibilities

• Determining HR policy and processes to do with salaries, administrative management, social policy, recruitment, training, mobility and career management
• Implementing and applying HR policy and processes in close collaboration with operational teams
• Managing workforce supply and demand and skills gaps

Jobs

• Business partner
• Human resources development
• Compensation and benefits
• Personnel administration
• Social policy and relations

Legal, ethics, compliance and institutional relations

Vision and tasks

Legal teams are in charge of ethics, compliance and institutional relations, and manage all legal, contractual and governance issues. They promote, safeguard and defend ArianeGroup’s legal interests. They uphold a corporate culture based on ethics and integrity, and ensure that issues that do not comply with legal obligations or commercial regulations are prevented, identified and resolved. They develop and maintain efficient relations with institutional customers and the different stakeholder groups (shareholders, partners, customers and suppliers).

Role and responsibilities

• Managing all legal aspects of the company and its subsidiaries
• Managing relationships and regulations with governments and stakeholder organisations
• Managing patent filing
• Helping to draft complex long-term contracts

Jobs

• Intellectual property
• Legal
• Data protection and archiving
• Ethics and compliance
• Export control
• Institutional relations

Continuous improvement and change management

Vision and tasks

Teams in charge of continuous improvement support project leaders, managers and their teams in implementing projects that target optimising costs, lead times and quality (OCOTOQ). For this, they use  Lean Six Sigma  tools and methodologies, as well as tools for overseeing change management. As part of the company’s transformation plan, these teams also provide staff Lean Management training (White Belt, Green Belt, Manager Belt, Black Belt).

Role and responsibilities

• Setting up optimised processes, determining tools and methods
• Helping roll out of  Lean Six Sigma  across all directorates
• Overseeing change management for improvement-focused projects

Jobs

• Continuous improvement and change management

Communication

Vision and tasks

Communication teams support recognition of ArianeGroup’s position as a leading player for space launchers and defence, working to build up the company’s audience reach and reputation. They communicate the Group’s challenges, strategy and objectives to staff. They also help strengthen corporate culture and shared values based on a ‘One ArianeGroup’ spirit, and involve staff in the company’s transformation.

Role and responsibilities

• Defining the communication strategy of the company and its subsidiaries
• Designing and implementing internal and external communication campaigns within a framework plan, and measuring effectiveness
• Managing external service providers

Jobs

• Internal and external communication
• Media relations
• Editorial communication
• Digital communication
• Events communication
• Trade fairs and exhibitions
• Local communication

Finance

Vision and tasks

Finance teams make sure that financial information is transparent, complete, exact and consistent. They provide timely advice to operational management. They are responsible for overseeing financial processes and ensuring that appropriate internal controls are in place. They protect ArianeGroup assets by ensuring risk management, compliance, and veracity and integrity of financial data.

Role and responsibilities

• Setting financial goals
• Overseeing support for formulation of financial bids by forecasting a given project’s profitability and cash flow generated
• Scrutinising results contributions compared to budget
• Supporting decision making by providing necessary financial information
• Negotiating contracts, monitoring financial and return-on-investment (ROI) goals
• Assessing financial risk and programme and sales campaign opportunities
• Managing and supporting merger and acquisition (M&A) projects

Jobs

• General accounting and analytics
• Consolidation
• Programme management control
• Operations management control
• Central management control
• Treasury
• Financial strategy
• Internal control and risk management
• Insurance
• Taxes

Information system management

Vision and tasks

Teams in charge of information systems (IS) management determine the IS strategies and provide advice for their development. They make arbitrage recommendations according to project portfolio priorities. They are also responsible for monitoring and roll-out of projects, and for guaranteeing the quality of post-production services. They have goals regarding key Group transformation and integration projects. They ensure that internal customers are satisfied, measuring satisfaction levels and optimising the resources deployed to improve them.

Role and responsibilities

• Ensuring service quality of information systems in terms of availability and responsiveness
• Ensuring that information systems comply with legal and safety regulations, particularly with regards to defence and data protection

Jobs

• IT project management
• Information systems organisation and change management
• Application life cycles
• Technical architecture
• IT infrastructure maintenance
• User support and assistance
• Methods and tools – quality and safety
• Data management

Health, safety & environment

Vision and tasks

Health, safety & environment (HSE) teams oversee risk mitigation and control approaches at every site. They provide technical expertise to assess risk and ensure implementation of appropriate control processes, in particular regarding chemical and pyrotechnical risks. They are involved in optimising risk prevention measures and guaranteeing a robust environmental framework. They set goals, ensure resource compliance and carry out regulatory monitoring.

Role and responsibilities

• Coordinating development and update of occupational risk assessment at every Group site
• Ensuring compliance with training and certification regulations
• Reporting accidents/incidents and ensuring surveys and analyses are carried out
• Liaising with administrative authorities
• Maintaining dialogue with staff representative bodies regarding HSE matters
• Sharing HSE best practices

Jobs

• Security
• Health
• Environment
• Pyrotechnic safety
• Chemical safety