04.5 · Attracting, developing and keeping.
People
In a group whose main asset is what it knows how to do, this department does not manage payroll: it decides what can be built. And it has an advantage almost no group exploits — it can move a person from one house to another without it being a transaction between companies.
A quién sirve
The whole group
One function for all eight houses. It is what lets a person be where they are needed at any given moment rather than where they were hired.
What it does
Planning and recruitment
Which profiles are needed, when and in which house. And the hiring process, which in engineering is won or lost in the first conversation.
Training and development
Programmes and career paths. In a sector that changes technology every few years, not training is a staffing decision taken by omission.
Assessment and pay
Evaluation systems, salary structure and benefits, to the same criteria across all eight houses.
Employment relations
Climate, negotiation and compliance with the law of every country where there is a team.
Taking an engineer from one house onto another's project is a decision taken the moment the need becomes visible. In a group where every piece goes its own way, that same decision passes through two managements and takes weeks — and by then the project has moved on without them.
The advantage of operating together
The group is currently a founder with no staff. This department describes the function as it is defined, not a team that exists. Publishing it any other way would be the one thing in this window that was not true.