Global Mobility Manager
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 transformation to prioritize employees, operational efficiency, and cost containment. This new role supports the Firm’s growing needs by managing the end-to-end planning, implementation, and support for secondments and international transfers, ensuring the successful application of Freshfields’ global mobility program policies. The Global Mobility Manager is the primary contact for managing and coordinating the full international secondment lifecycle. The role also supports international remote working requests and the relocation aspects for colleagues permanently transferring or who are foreign local hires. The role operates with a high degree of autonomy, requiring significant 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 (approx. 5-8 years).
- Previous exposure or knowledge of secondment management, global tax and social security issues, immigration, and international compensation (approx. 5-8 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
- 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 and 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
- Reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application procedures.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
