Job Description:
Would you like to be part of a small “People” team in Copenhagen, contributing to a large international organization with ambitious growth plans, having colleagues in Germany (Hamburg), China, Singapore, and USA?
Do you live and breathe efficiency? Do you love to turn routines into processes?
Do you perform best in fast-paced environment balancing structure with speed?
If you can answer ‘Yes’ to these questions, perhaps you are the right person to join our local People team in Copenhagen.
We are always ready and willing to help each other and our colleagues with any HR-related topics and we expect you to be ready to do the same!
What the job is …
For our team in Copenhagen, we are looking for an experienced HR professional in project management and process improvement for Satair Copenhagen. In this role, your main mission is to design, optimize, and implement scalable structures, workflows, and HR processes that set our organization up for long-term success. You will bridge the gap between corporate-level strategy and local execution. The core challenge of this role lies in creating innovative, efficient processes that align with global group guidelines and industry best practices.
To thrive in this role, you must bring a broad and deep understanding of modern HR operations practices and tools, combined with the creative drive and hands-on determination to turn concepts into reality. You are a structured thinker who excels at navigating complex stakeholder landscapes, ensuring that all parties are aligned and engaged throughout the transformation journey.
These are the most important tasks in the role:
Core HR Expertise: Use and share your expertise on state-of-the-art practices in payroll, time management and HR administration
Process Analysis & Optimization: Dive deep into existing HR workflows to understand current pain points, identify inefficiencies, and map out optimized, future-ready processes.
Structure & Implementation: Design, build, and successfully roll out new HR structures and tools, ensuring a smooth transition and sustainable adoption across the organization.
Project Management: Lead HR projects from inception to completion, managing timelines, deliverables, and resource allocation with a highly structured methodology.
Corporate Alignment: Act as the strategic link to the corporate group, translating global guidelines and best practices into tailored, compliant local HR solutions.
Stakeholder Management: Proactively engage with various internal and external, national and international stakeholders and champion a culture of continuous improvement.
Beyond these tasks, you will:
Support the Satair Copenhagen HR team on multiple improvement campaigns and projects
Act as local HR Data Quality Focal Point
Be the focal point on local HR communication, incl. Hub Posts, gSite maintenance, preparation of presentations (Site Talk, Leadership Forum)
How you will contribute to the team
You have a master’s degree in HR or business administration and solid professional experience in HR project management, process design, or a similar HR transformation role, backed by a strong foundation in modern HR practices in HR administration (payroll and time management) and digital tools.
Your Professional Skills include:
Structured Thinking: Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to break down complex organizational challenges into clear, logical, and actionable project steps.
Creativity & Drive: A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with the creativity to design new ways of working and the can-do-attitude to bring them to life.
Language Skills: Business-fluent English (both written and spoken) is required, as you will be operating within a corporate group context. Danish language skills will be a plus.
Education: You have a Bachelor's degree or similar education with a minimum of 5 years of experience in strategic HR.
Your Personal & Interpersonal Skills:
Creative drive and hands-on determination, structured thinking, business drive, willingness to contribute to Satair growth + ability to work in complex / evolving environments, self-organizer with very good team and communication skills
Entrepreneurial mindset, proactivity and courage to challenge the status quo.
Good Stakeholder Management and outstanding interpersonal skills
Experience from an international environment, fluent in English (our corporate language).
What does your next challenge look like?
At SATAIR, we believe in sustainable aviation that allows people to travel and connect across the globe.
We are on a mission to provide world class material solutions that keep aircraft flying and extend their lifespan.
In Satair, you can challenge the status quo, pioneer new ways of working, and generate real value for airlines and suppliers worldwide.
Being part of the Airbus family gives us the opportunity to live a global mindset, working in international and diverse teams and collaborating across functions, sites and cultures.
If you want to work as one team embracing a can-do attitude in a demanding environment, then we offer a great place to explore, learn, and grow, making an impact on aviation’s digital and sustainable transformation.
If you want to know more about our business, have a closer look at our website www.SATAIR.com or check out our SATAIR Youtube Channel at www.youtube.com/sataircompany !
Come on board and join us at Satair, an Airbus Services Company!
About SATAIR
Satair is an Airbus Services company offering first-class material management solutions in the aviation aftermarket industry. We take pride in delivering an excellent customer experience around the clock, driving innovation, and contributing to aviation’s digital and sustainable transformation.
With our global functional organisation spanning 11 sites and locations worldwide, and a team of over 1,900 people supporting a $3.3 billion turnover, you will be part of a truly global company that continues to grow year after year.
Welcome to the Satair family!
If you want to know more about our business, have a closer look at our website www.SATAIR.com or check out our SATAIR Youtube Channel at www.youtube.com/sataircompany !
What do we offer at SATAIR?
At SATAIR, you will find much more than a job - we offer you the possibility of growing both your personal and professional capacities in a fun, supportive and informal working environment, where you will be encouraged to engage, share knowledge and ideas.
SATAIR is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We love to bring in people with different backgrounds and experiences as we believe it enhances our performance immensely!
Here is a selection of some of the benefits we offer our employees in Copenhagen:
Competitive remuneration, including short term incentive bonus on all levels
Work/life balance: hybrid working, flex time, maternity/paternity/parental leave, 29 days of holiday + senior and flex days
Personal development: personalized development plans, large portfolio of learning solutions and many internal mobility opportunities, both locally and globally
Health and well-being: Health insurance, in-house canteen with many healthy options
Come on board and join us at Satair, an Airbus Services Company
Please send us your CV and application as soon as possible in order to get the opportunity to become part of an exceptional global team!
We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.
When applying for the position, you accept our data privacy statement: http://www.SATAIR.com/privacy
This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.
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Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.
Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to [email protected].
At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in HR or Business Administration
- Minimum 5 years' experience in strategic HR, HR project management, process design, or HR transformation
- Solid knowledge of HR administration, payroll and time management processes
- Experience implementing HR structures, workflows and digital HR tools
- Business-fluent English (written and spoken)
- Danish language skills
- Experience working in an international environment and strong stakeholder management skills
Airbus Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Airbus and has not been reviewed or approved by Airbus.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive in several locations, including medical, dental, and vision options available from day one in the U.S. Access to life insurance, disability coverage, and employee assistance/wellbeing support adds breadth to the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is framed as a meaningful part of the package through plans such as a 401(k) with company matching in the U.S. These programs strengthen long-term financial security beyond base wages.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off provisions are described as generous in some settings, including vacation availability from day one and extended holiday coverage. Flexible working arrangements and hybrid options further increase the perceived value of time-related benefits.
Airbus Insights
What We Do
Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2020, it generated revenues of €49.9 billion and employed a workforce of around 130,000. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as one of the world’s leading space companies. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions worldwide. Airbus is an international pioneer in the aerospace industry and a leader in designing, manufacturing and delivering aerospace products, services and solutions to customers on a global scale. We believe that it’s not just what we make, but how we make it that counts; promoting responsible, sustainable and inclusive business practices and acting with integrity. Our people work with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place, on the ground, in the sky and in space.
