AWARDS BEST INTERNATIONAL HR OR
MOBILITY INITIATIVE
SPONSORED BY WorleyParsons I
n recent years, the global mobility buzz has been about strategic alignment with the business. Winners of the 2018 Best International HR or Mobility Initiative Award, the
global mobility team at WorleyParsons, achieve exactly this and more – with stunning outcomes. Placing mobility expertise at the heart of the organisation,
WorleyParsons rightly regards its mobility team as a high value-added service. It is fundamental to maximising opportunities of winning new work and optimising revenues for existing client contracts. For Selina Jones-May, group director of mobility and global
people projects, and her remote team of nine colleagues in four countries, this high-stakes role demands exemplary levels of agility, dedication and diligence. “It is our job to provide solutions-oriented advice to the business on how they can meet the client’s objectives commercially and compliantly,” says Ms Jones-May. “Due to the high proportion of international talent leading and managing the projects, our role is pivotal to ensuring the company’s future success.” Mobility is the foundation of the business to the degree that
the team partners directly with WorleyParsons’ commercial teams to take the lead for the People function in each phase of the commercial bid process. Its input ensures bids are competitive, structured to address compliance considerations appropriately and upfront, and to deliver workable margins.
Raising the bar higher This lean, integrated approach is impressive enough. However,
the Relocate Awards judges highlighted mobility’s pivotal role in helping deliver WorleyParsons’ successful response to demanding external economic conditions with its Realise Our Future efficiency programme which generated AUD 500 million in overhead cost savings.
2018 Through this cost-management initiative, the mobility
team again demonstrated its agility and value to the business by making significant sustainable programme cost savings in a short timeframe while maintaining the same service levels for assignees and the business. “Our mobility team worked proactively and tenaciously
to deliver solutions,” says Ms Jones-May. “We considerably exceeded the targets we were set and have also directly addressed the company’s focus on building a sustainable future.”
Stepping outside comfort zones to deliver transformation The mobility team achieved these impressive savings primarily
by utilising market and peer benchmarks to deliver policy and benefits refinements. These changes are set to deliver further savings in the years ahead, following the team’s rollout of a revised policy framework after comprehensive programme renegotiation of all mobility vendor contracts worldwide. In the process, the mobility team have ensured service levels with external providers are retained and have designed more streamlined, efficient processes. “Responding to Realise Our Future, we delivered a commercial,
innovative, cost-effective programme that continues to maximise the company’s ROI,” adds Ms Jones-May. “We achieved this within incredibly aggressive timelines, with a core objective of ensuring service delivery to the business and assignees were not impacted.” Furthermore, by stepping outside of global mobility’s typical
remit, WorleyParsons’ mobility team has implemented a more integrated centrally managed benefits strategy and more proactive global approach to purchasing employee benefits insurances. WorleyParsons is now therefore leveraging the financial and administrative benefits of global consolidation
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40 | Relocate | Summer 2018
Above: John Beck (sponsor), Selina Jones-May
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