Global Mobility Business Partner

Location: London

Contract Type: Permanent - Full time

Reporting to: Global Head of Mobility

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future!

Our Human Resources (HR) team bring brilliant people together to help us continue building iconic brands. We harness the diverse talents of our people to help them excel. We champion an inclusive and collaborative culture, where all voices and perspectives are celebrated and valued.

Human Resources is at the heart of markets around the world, finding and developing talent that will unearth new ideas and inspire innovation. From creative problem solvers and entrepreneurs to scientists and engineers — whatever your experience and ideas, we’ll help you to harness your skills, empowering you to be the best you can be.

Our Global Mobility programme is fundamental to delivering Diageo’s future talent and development ambition with strong focus on business partnering, operational excellence and employee experience.

The Global Mobility centre of excellence is responsible for the management of cross border mobility of talent within Diageo including international assignments and permanent transfers, partnering with the business to deliver a Global Mobility programme which supports business needs, managing operational activity, leveraging global vendors and leading strategy and policy development.

Global Mobility Business Partners have the main responsibility for managing international moves within their regions, working with a broad range of cross functional teams and managing stakeholder across the organisation. This is a broad role requiring the ability to use your mobility expertise to guide the business, lead complex cases, understand the compliance requirements and pro-actively manage key stakeholders. You will manage moves across the full suite of GM policy and processes with a strong focus on employee experience.

Here’s a little more about what you can expect as a Global Mobility Business Partner:

• Delivering a high-quality experience to internationally mobile employees and the business.
• Responsible for managing all phases of assignment/transfer life-cycle for employees of all levels, including conducting move briefings, documentation and costings, partnering with vendors, systems and payroll.
• The role has global reach, requiring partnership across multiple markets, including HR, talent engagement, reward, tax, payroll and external vendors.
• Provide pro-active consulting and advisory partnership across the business on all aspects of GM as the subject matter expert.
• Ensure that GM policies and processes are followed consistently and compliantly, with active management of exceptions.
• Focus on operational excellence and data accuracy.
• Involvement in ad-hoc projects such as operational efficiency, policy review and technology enhancements, with a focus on continuous improvement.

What are we looking for?

• Global mobility experience primarily in an in-house GM function in a global matrix organisation.
• Strategic mindset with ability to identify and lead change.
• Comfortable working across the breadth of GM activity with good technical knowledge, including immigration, tax, systems and payroll.
• Collaborative approach with strong problem solving skills.
• An adaptable and flexible approach. Able to adjust quickly according to changing demands and priorities, drawing on experience and expertise.
• Ability to build strong relationships at all levels and across diverse cultures, with good stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Excellent communication skills verbal and written.
• Experience of using GM and HR systems.
• High attention to detail and accuracy, with analytical capability.

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!

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