Relocation sits at one of the messiest intersections in reward.
It touches compensation philosophy, tax, benefits, legal compliance, and some of the most difficult one-to-one conversations a reward professional will have – and yet most teams are figuring it out case-by-case, with a policy that was written for a different business.
Amanda and Liam have navigated it from very different angles.
Amanda spent six years leading global mobility at Gymshark, moving people into new markets as the business scaled internationally, before relocating to Dubai herself for her senior director role at Beyond ONE – a scale-up spanning multiple markets with a rapidly growing headcount.
Liam brings a different lens entirely: over a decade at KPMG in global mobility, expat tax, and benefits advisory, followed by three years at Zalando, before joining European Energy as their first ever comp and ben hire – stepping into a 930-person business across 32 countries with no compensation framework in place and the task of building one from scratch.
Together they'll work through four areas of relocation from a reward perspective:
As always, there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions, share experiences, and learn from fellow reward professionals who are navigating the same challenges.
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