Introduction
Key Responsibilities
- Strategy and Policy Development
- - Develop and implement global mobility policies and procedures aligned with company goals.
- - Collaborate with HR leadership and other stakeholders to refine relocation and expatriation strategies.
- International Relocation and Assignment Management
- - Lead/Own end-to-end processes for relocating employees, including cost estimation, vendor management, and onboarding support.
- - Coordinate teams to ensuring housing, transportation, and other logistics for assignees and their families.
- - Ensure IBM debt is collected and managed timely through coordination with IBMers and external agencies
- Immigration and Regulatory Compliance
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- - Own/Lead IBM immigration processes, including visa applications and work permits, ensuring compliance with local regulations.
- - Partner with legal and tax advisors to mitigate risks and maintain adherence to international employment laws.
- - Partner with IBM Tax and tax consultants to ensure timely tax payments, timely tax return filing, and optimized tax positions.
- - Select and manage external vendors, such as relocation services, tax and immigration consultants.
- - Monitor vendor performance to ensure service quality and efficiency.
- - Ensure accurate records of mobility assignments and generate reports on cost, performance metrics, and trends.
- - Analyze global mobility data to recommend improvements to policies and practices.
- - Global Program owner ensuring effective business controls are in place to minimize risk for IBM.
- - Design and implement effective business controls to ensure the integrity of global Mobility programs
- - Conduct regular reviews of program process to ensure effectiveness
- - Provide detailed risk assessments of propose mitigating strategies to address potential vulnerabilities in global mobility operations.
Your role and responsibilities
The Global Mobility Lead is responsible for designing, managing, and executing the organization's global mobility strategy to support the relocation, immigration, and international workforce needs of the company. This role includes overseeing business travel and employee transitions across borders, ensuring compliance with legal and tax requirements, and optimizing employee experience during international assignments.
Leaders are expected to spend time with their teams and clients and therefore are generally expected to be in the workplace a minimum of three days a week, subject to business needs.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, or a related field preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in payroll processing, tax compliance, or mobility/HR operations.
- Detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, global shared services or COE environment.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Knowledge of US immigration regulations
- Experience working with mobility vendors
- Experience with AI-driven automation and digital transformation initiatives.
- Experience working in a multinational or shared services environment.
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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.