Job Title : Global Mobility Business Partner

Location : London

Contract Type: Permanent

About us:

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding diverse collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

Diageo’s Performance Ambition calls for us to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products company in the world; this requires us to guarantee our plans with the right people and capabilities.

A little bit about Global Mobility at Diageo...
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 team 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, global vendors and developing strategy and policy.

The role purpose...

Global Mobility Business Partners have the primary responsibility for managing international moves within their regions, partnering with a broad range of stakeholders on all Global Mobility (GM) matters. The business partnering aspect of the role includes business consultation, support with international move package design, cost projections, mobility advice and guidance to the business.

The incumbent will be expected to pro-actively advise partners and manage moves across all aspects of GM policy and processes with a strong focus on employee experience.

The role...

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

• Delivering a high-quality service to internationally mobile employees and the business, consulting and partnering with the business to align GM activities to future business strategy.
• 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.
• Focus on operational excellence and data accuracy.
• The role has global reach, dealing with partners across multiple markets, including 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.
• To ensuring that GM policies and processes are followed in a consistent and compliant manner, with active management of exceptions.
• Involvement in ad-hoc projects such as operational efficiency, policy review and technology enhancements.

What are we looking for?

• Global mobility specialist experience primarily in an in-house GM function.
• Good technical knowledge of global mobility, including immigration, tax, systems and payroll.
• Consulting mentality 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.
• Graduate calibre.

Diversity statement:

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying!

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