Global Mobility Specialist
KM Lynskey Ireland : Full Time- On-site – Monday to Friday, and there may be a need for some travel.
Location: Dublin – Permanent
About the company: A leading Construction business operating in Ireland, UK and Mainland Europe is seeking a Global Mobility Lead to join their Team in Dublin 11.
This is an opportunity to join a growing international construction organisation operating across multiple jurisdictions in a time of hyper growth. The successful candidate will lead the delivery of European mobility activities, ensuring employees can move seamlessly across borders while balancing compliance, employee experience, and business needs.
This role combines hands-on management of mobility cases with responsibility for leading and developing a small mobility function to support the business. It would suit an experienced Global Mobility Specialist, Senior Mobility Advisor or Mobility Lead looking to take ownership of a critical area within an international business.
The Role: The Global Mobility candidate will support the international movement of employees across multiple European countries, enabling business growth while ensuring compliance with immigration, tax and employment requirements.
As Global Mobility Specialist, you will oversee day-to-day mobility activity, manage complex international assignments and relocations, provide guidance to key stakeholders and drive continuous improvement across the function.
Collaborate closely with HR, Payroll and business leaders to deliver an effective mobility programme, with particular focus on the payroll, tax and compliance implications of international employee movements.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of mobility services across multiple business units.
- Manage mobility cases (currently mostly European staff moving countries but increasing non EU) including transfers, relocations, secondments, immigration and repatriation activity.
- Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching and support to the Operations Team.
- Act as an escalation point for mobility-related queries from employees, managers, HR and Talent Acquisition teams.
- Oversee visa, work permit and immigration processes, ensuring compliance and timely delivery.
- Partner with external providers including immigration, tax, relocation and legal specialists.
- Maintain mobility policies, procedures, documentation and case management standards.
- Identify opportunities to enhance processes, improve service delivery and strengthen governance.
- Produce reporting, insights and recommendations to support workforce planning and business decision-making.
- Ensure compliance with international employment, immigration and assignment-related regulations.
- Collaborate with HR, Payroll and business leaders to deliver an effective mobility programme.
- Support wider HR initiatives where global mobility expertise is required.
About You
You will have a strong understanding of global mobility and international employee movement, together with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and navigate complex compliance requirements across different jurisdictions.
Essential Experience
- Experience within Global Mobility, international HR operations, immigration, relocation or a related discipline.
- Good understanding of how Global Mobility activities interact with payroll, taxation and employee benefits.
- Proven capability managing end-to-end international mobility cases.
- Experience coaching, mentoring or providing oversight to a colleague or junior team member.
- Strong knowledge of work permits, visas, immigration processes and international assignments.
- Ability to advocate for the department re new IT, etc.
- Ability to build effective relationships with employees, leaders and external providers.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
Desirable:
- Previous payroll experience or experience shadowing / working closely with a Payroll function, ideally with exposure to international or cross-border employees.
- Self Starter interested in taking ownership of a department within a growing business.
- Degree qualification in HR, Business, International Relations or a related membership or equivalent HR qualification.
- Experience within a multinational or internationally focused organisation.
- Exposure to policy development, process improvement, and mobility programme enhancement.