Talent Mobility Business Partner

Location/s: Glasgow or Manchester, UK
Recruiter contact: Emma Cantley

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. 

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. 

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit  
Mott MacDonald’s support services are the driving force behind our organisation enabling us to run efficiently and effectively. The team works collaboratively to offer specialist advice, best practice and technology to all areas of our business specifically designed for our global reach. 

Overview of the role

As the Talent Mobility Business Partner for EUNA, you will shape and nurture the Talent Mobility function across the region, ensuring the smooth and thoughtful delivery of Mott MacDonald’s Talent Mobility Framework in line with our strategic goals. You will play a central role in championing ongoing transformation, bringing empathy, insight and partnership to every stage of the journey. 

In this role, you will be the regional immigration specialist—supporting and guiding the immigration team while ensuring trusted, compliant and people-focused service delivery across the UK and Europe. The role also involves travel within the UK to build relationships, support key stakeholders and ensure effective collaboration across offices. Working closely with a wide range of cross-functional colleagues, you will use your expertise to offer clear, caring and confident guidance, manage complex cases with sensitivity, and build strong, lasting relationships with key stakeholders. As an integral member of our global team, you will collaborate daily with Global Mobility colleagues worldwide to share knowledge, align best practice and strengthen our collective approach.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Strategic Consultation & Partnership:
  • Build meaningful, trusted relationships with HRBPs and business leaders, serving as their go‑to partner for all global mobility and immigration matters. Offer clear, supportive advice that helps them make informed, people‑centred decisions
• Team Guidance & Support:
  • Lead, mentor and encourage the Talent Mobility Advisor and immigration advisors, fostering an inclusive and empowering team culture. Champion continuous learning, wellbeing, and collaborative problem‑solving while ensuring efficient, compliant and high‑quality support.
• Case Management:
  • Oversee the full assignment and transfer lifecycle with a focus on clarity, care and compliance. Partner closely with the Talent Mobility Advisor, who manages move logistics and vendor coordination, as well as UK immigration advisors handling visa processes for international hires and the domestic workforce
• Vendor Relationship Management:
  • Build and maintain positive, productive relationships with our external partners—including relocation providers, immigration specialists and tax consultants—ensuring quality support and service excellence
• Systems, Data & Reporting:
  • Ensure thoughtful and accurate use of our mobility technology platform and case management tools. Use data insights to understand trends, tell compelling stories, and support informed, strategic decisions. Deliver reliable, timely reporting to meet mobility and immigration requirements
• Project Leadership:
  • Lead and contribute to a variety of people‑centred mobility projects, such as new vendor onboarding, technology improvements and process enhancements that make mobility journeys smoother and more effective for colleagues and the business
• Immigration Compliance Leadership:
  • Oversee immigration compliance across the UK and Europe, ensuring we meet UK Visas and Immigration requirements and maintain our A‑rated sponsor licence. Offer calm, expert guidance to stakeholders and keep the business informed and prepared as government policy evolves

Candidate specification

Essential:

• Experienced professional in global mobility or international HR, ideally within an in-house corporate environment
• Strong technical expertise across global mobility management, including expatriate compensation, tax, immigration, social security, and end-to-end assignment processes
• In-depth knowledge of UK immigration law and compliance, including sponsor licence management and Skilled Worker (Tier 2) processes
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across HR, tax, finance, reward and external vendors
• Advanced analytical, problem-solving and project management capabilities, with the ability to handle complex data and multiple priorities
• Culturally aware and globally minded, experienced working with cross-functional teams across time zones and committed to delivering an excellent employee experience
• Proficiency with mobility and HR systems, particularly Equus and SuccessFactors, plus strong commercial awareness to guide mobility decisions

Desirable:

• GMPD accreditation practitioner

Closing date 27th January 2026

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working  

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion 

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

 Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.