Global Talent Mobility Manager

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us. 

The Associate Director - Global Talent Mobility will design and deliver competitive and compliant programs - executed with care, quality, and responsible stewardship of Lilly resources to support a positive employee experience

In partnership with the current Global Talent Mobility Associate Director, this role has responsibility for Lilly’s international talent mobility programs. This role is comprised of the following key elements:

• Strategic collaboration with various partners
• Oversight, design, and management of inbound international assignments for all countries except the United States and Puerto Rico (PR). This includes long-term and short-term assignments (LTA/STA), commuter arrangements, and support for accompanying partners.
•  Vendor management services such as relocation consulting, relocation logistics, and immigration
• Operational excellence and continuous improvement

As a key contact for these programs, the Associate Director must network across a broad array of partners, including internal and external talent mobility peers, US and international HR business partners, Talent Acquisition, Finance, Corporate Tax, Legal, and various vendors.

Key Objectives / Deliverables

• Provide expert guidance and consultation to HR business partners and line management on the philosophy and application of mobility programs.
• Lead all aspects of the mobility programs for employees internationally relocating outside the US and PR coordinated by outsourced providers. Ensure efficient and transparent service delivery, resulting in high employee satisfaction and positive employee experience. Research and resolve issues escalated to the Global Talent Mobility team and ensure root cause is determined with appropriate actions put in place. Serve as the subject matter expert for the programs, making key program decisions.
• Educate outsourced relocation service providers on Lilly’s purpose, culture, values, and overall mobility program philosophy. Ensure a shared understanding of our policy elements to maintain consistency and alignment with our organizational goals.
• Stay informed about external market trends in mobility by reviewing pertinent mobility information from external providers, networking with industry peers, and participating in industry surveys. Drive innovative program enhancements to ensure competitiveness, compliance, and cost-effectiveness. Lead and implement change management initiatives to support these improvements.
• Drive continuous improvement of the international assignee processes – troubleshoot and resolve issues; identify challenges and simplify and streamline the process.
• Administer finance process for international mobility programs including the centralized billing process – respond to inquiries from global affiliates, global business solutions and/or vendors. Ensure supplier invoices are accurate and sent for payment in a timely manner, in compliance with Lilly’s financial practices and policies. Partner with outsourced vendor for timely delivery of annual cost estimates to Finance as part of the business planning process.

Basic Requirements:

• Associates degree
• Minimum 5 years experience in Talent Mobility
• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1

Additional Preferences:

• Knowledge of/experience in global talent mobility
• HR partner experience supporting the business
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with all employees, including executive and senior leaders
• Courage and ability to coach and influence employees, including executive and senior leaders
• Excellent people interaction skills
• Employee relations experience within human resources and/or supervisory experience
• Knowledge of/experience in financial processes
• Experience in vendor management
• Demonstrated ability to work across various cultures
• Experience delivering services internationally
• Ability to effectively troubleshoot and resolve problems
• Ability to deal with ambiguity
• Experience in the design/delivery of metrics

Additional Information:

• This position is located at Lilly Corporate Center

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Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia (AMECA), Black Employees at Lilly (BE@Lilly), Chinese Culture Network (CCN), EnAble, Evolve, Lilly Indian Network (LIN), Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), Pride (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN) and Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL).

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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