Global Mobility Manager

Freshfields • Raleigh, NC

22h

About The Position

Global Mobility at Freshfields promotes and manages the firm’s mobility program, ensuring the smooth movement of colleagues across different countries to meet business and client needs, as well as to develop talent and fill skills gaps. Key areas of focus are colleague experience, compliance, and operational efficiency. The GM function is undergoing a positive transformation to ensure employees are at the heart of the program, operations are efficient, and costs are contained. This is a new role to support the Firm’s growing needs. The purpose of this role is to manage end-to-end planning, implementation, and support for secondments and international transfers, while ensuring the successful application of Freshfields’ global mobility program policies. The Global Mobility Manager is the primary contact for the management and coordination of the full international secondment lifecycle. The role will also support international remote working requests and the relocation aspects for colleagues who are permanently transferring or are foreign local hires. The role will operate with a high degree of autonomy, requiring considerable liaison with internal and external stakeholders and utilizing strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills to partner with colleagues at varying levels of seniority.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a global mobility role (c5-8 years).
• Previous exposure or knowledge of secondment management, global tax and social security issues, immigration, and international compensation (c5-8 years).
• In-depth knowledge of US immigration rules and processes.
• Able to demonstrate project management skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Advanced IT skills, including PowerPoint, Visio, and Excel.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills.
• Able to work in a complex mobility landscape with changing processes.

Nice To Haves

• Preference for experience gained in a professional services, partnership, or in-house global mobility, expatriate tax, or immigration role.
• Previous experience of Workday or other HR database.
• Previous experience of global mobility technology.
• Previous experience in managing US shadow payroll.

Responsibilities

• Advise on all aspects of the firm’s secondment policies, procedures, and processes to ensure best practice, efficiency, and reduction of exceptions in the management of secondments.
• Advise secondees on all aspects of their secondment placement (e.g., remuneration, benefits, payroll, tax, and accommodation) to facilitate their integration into the firm and the host office.
• Manage complex secondment queries on a case-by-case basis from HR Shared Services or HRBPs/Assistants.
• Interact with candidates, employees, and managers to answer immigration and relocation policy and program questions.
• Deal with and advise on complex immigration information with assistance from the external immigration provider if required.
• Manage the secondment lifecycle for all international moves between the firm’s global network offices and also to client locations, including hosting departure briefings with the secondee, liaising with management, HR colleagues, and external providers.
• Manage ad-hoc projects within the Global Mobility team, working with other HR or cross-functional team members as appropriate.
• Deal with international remote working queries in line with the firm's policy and process.

Benefits

• Equal employment employer
• Policies and practices free from unlawful discrimination
• Atmosphere that encourages equal opportunities and prohibits discriminatory practices, including sexual harassment.
• Provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed