Global Mobility Specialist Jobs

At Kinaxis, who we are is grounded in our common belief that people matter. Each one of us plays an important part in accomplishing our work, building our culture and making a global impact.

Every day, we’re empowered to work together to help our customers make fast, confident planning decisions. This is how we create a better planet – for each other, for our customers and for generations to come. Our cloud-based platform RapidResponse ensures that the products we need – everything from medicine and cars, to day-to-day items like toothpaste – make it to market and into our hands when we need them with minimal ecological footprint.

We make the world better, and you can too.

Global Mobility Specialist

Job location: This is a remote/hybrid position. You can work from home and be located anywhere in Canada. If you are located in Ottawa, you will be expected to work in a hybrid model with a minimum of working in the office 3 days a week.

About The Team

Our Global HR Services team acts as the central point of contact for all employee life cycle operations, maintaining our HR global policies and processes, overseeing our regional HR support, and providing exceptional HR transactional guidance and employee experience to a global employee base. Our team strives to create an environment in which all employees can thrive and do their best work.

The Global Mobility Specialist is responsible for contributing to the design, build, and implementation of a global mobility program, including the creation and continued enhancement of policies and processes. Reporting to the Senior Manager, HR Services, and partnering with stakeholders across HR and the business, the Global Mobility Specialist will be comfortable in both a strategic and hands on role, with a passion for innovative solutions and engaging and retaining strong talent.

What you will do

• Provide day-to-day guidance to others on first level decision and direction on global mobility.
• Monitor legislative changes and update policies and processes accordingly
• Support and lead global mobility related projects and initiatives.
• Oversee all global mobility workstreams, including work authorization requirements and expirations, immigration and expat requests, and relocations.
• Actively monitor complex cases, to ensure timelines, milestones, and schedules are being met, proactively anticipating challenges and delays and adapting accordingly.
• Providing timely updates on priority cases to key stakeholders, including employees, managers, leaders, HR Business Partners and candidates
• Proactively identify opportunities for improvement, including process and policy enhancements, metrics, and communication and training initiatives, involving relevant stakeholders as needed and ensuring alignment across Finance, Tax, HR, and the business.
• Utilize a strong working knowledge of global mobility policies and procedures to recommend the appropriate actions to stakeholders.
• Ensure that all global mobility initiatives and cases meet regional compliance and legislative requirements.
• Serve as the initial point of contact for Employees, Managers, HR, Legal, Finance, and Payroll for Global Mobility issues; coordinating and escalating when required.
• Lead the build and execution of Kinaxis Global Mobility Framework, partnering with internal stakeholders within HR and across the business, and managing vendor and third-party service provider relationships.

What we are looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in business management, human resources, or related field, or combination of relevant work experience and education preferred.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to use sound judgment to drive complex issues to resolution and influence to achieve result.
• Demonstrated HR project management experience, with an attention to detail and focus on accuracy.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and work collaboratively (internally and externally)
• 7+ years of relevant experience in progressive roles within Global Mobility with a focus on HR
• Embodies a “company first” mentality, and acts as an ambassador to Kinaxis culture and values.
• Experience developing and presenting reports and analytics to all levels of the business.
• Experience managing global assignment projects (STA, LTA, localizations etc.)
• Exceptional communication and organization skills
• An understanding of cross border immigration and taxation matters is preferred.
• Ability to work in an agile, dynamic, rapid-changing environment by prioritizing situations which require sense of urgency.
• CERC designation would be an asset
• Ability to make decisions on day-to-day activities and escalate timely.
• Possesses a business partner attitude and influencing skills, coupled with a solid ability to work with various levels of stakeholders.

What we have to offer

• Challenging Work - We love solving highly complex problems. And as the global leaders in our industry, we never stop innovating—our work is never “done. That’s because across our teams and in all roles, every employee is empowered to bring their best ideas forward and to jump in and solve the problems they’re passionate about.
• Global Impact - As a global team spanning continents, boundaries, and cultures, every day we are inspired by the impact our work has on our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world at large.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Diversity, equity and inclusion are more than words to us. They are the guiding principles for building a culture where we celebrate each others’ differences, continuously strive for equality and recognize that inclusion makes us stronger as individuals, a company and a global citizen.
• Great People - We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously! It’s in our DNA to celebrate, laugh, and have fun. We are stronger, together, when we are open, honest, and above all, real. Every person is valued here and plays an important role in our shared success.

For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com/ .

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