Global Immigration Manager

Job Title: Global Immigration Manager

Location: Preston or Frimley. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £72,000 + executive benefits

What you’ll be doing:

• Own and lead the global immigration strategy, ensuring governance and compliance across BAE Systems international operations.
• Design, implement, and manage a seamless global immigration programme, utilising both in-house and outsourced services to enhance employee experience and ensure company compliance in a cost-effective manner.
• Develop, maintain, and regularly review internal immigration policy and process documentation, ensuring processes are robust and aligned with current legislation.
• Lead a team of immigration and mobility specialists to oversee daily operations, addressing queries related to international assignments, local hires, country-to-country moves, business traveller activities, and other mobility actions.
• Regularly assess and mitigate immigration compliance risks and exposure across BAE Systems.
• Identify and implement technology solutions to streamline and improve immigration processes.
• Partner with internal teams (Recruitment, Onboarding, Security, etc.) to enhance service delivery, improve processes, and optimise the overall user experience.

Your skills and experiences:

• Extensive experience in global immigration and mobility management, with a deep understanding of international immigration laws and regulations.
• Proven leadership experience in managing direct reports, ensuring effective team performance and development.
• Experience in vendor management and overseeing supplier relationships.
• In-depth knowledge of personal and corporate tax, immigration, and employment law issues related to global mobility.
• Proven ability to resolve complex immigration challenges independently.
• Experience driving continuous improvement initiatives in cross-functional or matrixed environments.
• Experience in a large, complex organisation, managing diverse global mobility needs.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Global Mobility Team:

Join a growing team at BAE Systems as you lead the global immigration strategy, ensuring governance and compliance across international operations. You’ll design and implement a seamless immigration programme, managing both in-house and outsourced services to enhance employee experience and company compliance.

Leading a team of immigration specialists, you’ll oversee daily operations, including international assignments, local hires, and business travel queries, while identifying opportunities for process improvement through technology. You’ll work closely with internal teams such as Recruitment and Security to streamline service delivery.

This role is ideal for an ambitious immigration professional with line management experience, ready to play a key leadership role in driving the growth of global mobility within BAE Systems.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 14th April 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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