Manager - Global Mobility

Manager Global Mobility

Job Summary

The Manager Global Mobility is responsible for the strategic management and operational delivery of Valaris's global mobility programs, including international assignments, short-term business travel, immigration, and expatriate tax compliance. This role ensures compliance with global tax and immigration regulations while supporting business objectives and employee experience. The role manages vendor relationships, oversees policy governance, and partners with HR, Finance, and business leaders to deliver effective and compliant mobility solutions across all regions.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and maintains Valariss Global Mobility programs and policies, ensuring alignment with business priorities, compliance with international tax and immigration regulations, and a consistent employee experience.
• Manages all aspects of the international assignment lifecycle, including cost projections, assignment letters, pre-departure briefings, on-assignment support, and repatriation planning.
• Oversees immigration compliance globally, managing vendor partnerships and internal processes to ensure timely acquisition and renewal of work permits, visas, and residence documentation for assignees and dependents.
• Partners with external tax advisors to coordinate tax planning, hypothetical tax calculations, tax equalization, and annual filings, ensuring compliance with host and home country tax laws.
• Manages relationships with external relocation, tax, and immigration vendors to ensure service quality, cost control, and adherence to contractual performance standards.
• Serves as the subject matter expert for global mobility, advising HR Business Partners, Finance, and business leaders on mobility-related policy, costs, and risk mitigation.
• Ensures compliance with international employment, tax, and immigration laws; maintains auditable records; and develops reporting to support internal governance and audit requirements.
• Reviews and enhances global mobility and tax policies, ensuring they reflect best practices, evolving legal requirements, and business needs.
• Leads cross-functional projects to improve global mobility processes, technology, and employee experience. Identifies opportunities for standardization and automation.
• Provides leadership, coaching, and professional development for the Global Mobility team. Fosters collaboration and knowledge sharing across the HR function.

Qualifications / Education

Skills & Experience

Behaviors

As part of our commitment to fostering a high-performance culture, employees are expected to align their actions and decisions with the principles outlined in our Behavioral Framework. This framework serves as the foundation for our organizational culture and guides our behaviors to drive better outcomes across the company. Employees are responsible for incorporating these behaviors into their daily actions, relationships, and decision-making to help manage expectations, strengthen relationships, and contribute to the overall success of the organization.

Our five behaviors that define our culture are :

Analyze & Plan Being deliberate in understanding and describing the problem to solve and using information from a range of relevant sources to develop solutions that are effective and evidence-based.

Collaborate Collaborating effectively, sharing ideas, and leveraging one another's strengths based on trust, transparency, and empathy, creating an environment where everyone's input is valued.

Communicate Communicate clearly with all employees and stakeholders, ensuring active listening, understanding, and timely information sharing.

Learn, Grow & Adapt Building organizational capability through our own learning and development while coaching others and supporting others to adapt, learn, and develop.

Deliver Results Striving to deliver and exceed required results, identifying and overcoming obstacles, and taking responsibility for the outcome while respecting our values.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this job. It is not designed to have or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Valaris is an equal opportunity employer in all aspects of employment to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation or any other non-job related factors.

Valaris is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, please contact recruiting@valaris.com .