Your International Moves Are Losing £5,300–£10,900 Each — Because of How Every Provider Is Built.
For HR Directors managing 10–50 international relocations a year: LSS eliminates the hidden coordination tax your current invoices will never show — through one authority, not one coordinator.
Watch: The Synchronised Move™
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You Brief the Provider. You Chase the Updates. The Costs Still Climb.
Most HR Directors we speak with have already switched relocation providers once. The problems followed them. That's not a coincidence — it's a structural pattern.
You know how this works. You have a programme. You have a provider — maybe a recognised name. You give them the employee's details. They assign a coordinator.
And then the move begins.
None of this is a disaster. It is, however, expensive. Each boundary crossing between your RMC, their DSP, the immigration firm, and the housing provider adds 2–5 days of delay. Each delay costs money.
On a typical international move, this structural friction costs £3,000–£6,000 in timing waste alone — before a single hidden markup is counted.
The Visa Slides Two Weeks
The housing provider is a separate company. Three emails and two days later, the new start date is confirmed. The original lease has already started. You're paying rent on a flat your employee can't occupy.
The Missed School Visit
The school visit was booked for Tuesday. But the settling-in consultant — another company — didn't hear about the date change until the coordinator got around to emailing them. The visit is missed.
The Authority Problem
"The problem isn't your coordinator's effort. The problem is their authority. They can see the problem. They cannot fix it. Fixing it requires decisions that cross company boundaries — and every boundary costs time."
The Synchronised Move™: One Authority. Every Workstream.
This is not a coordination service. It is an authority service. The distinction is worth £5,300–£10,900 per move.
The Standard Coordinator
Every relocation company in the market gives you a coordinator. A coordinator watches workstreams. They alert vendors. They send emails. They wait for responses.
You've probably already tried switching providers. The problems followed you. What if the issue isn't which provider you've chosen — but the structure every provider operates inside?
The Synchronised Move™
Gives you a team that owns every workstream directly. When any part of the plan changes, every connected part adjusts the same day, inside the same company.
Immigration coordination, housing timing, shipping direction, school search, settling-in, and expense management all run through one LSS operational team. The decision authority never leaves LSS's hands.
This programme is built for you if:
- You run 10–50 international relocations per year with an existing RMC or multi-vendor setup
- You've had at least one move go sideways because of timing gaps between separate vendors
- Someone on your team regularly fields escalation calls from employees who don't know who to contact
- You want to know exactly where your relocation spend goes — and stop reconciling invoices from four different companies
- You're ready for a programme where one call answers every question about any active move
This is not a fit if:
- You run fewer than 5 international relocations per year
- You have fully in-house immigration and destination services with direct authority already
- You're optimising for the lowest quoted management fee, regardless of hidden cost exposure
Your Path to a Synchronised Programme
Programme Alignment
Week 1We map your existing programme: where your workstreams currently sit, which vendor boundaries exist, and where timing gaps have historically cost you money. We assign your dedicated LSS authority consultant.
You know — from day one — exactly who owns every workstream and who has the power to change it.
Transition Handover
Weeks 2–4We extract the programme intelligence from your current setup. Moves already in flight complete under their management — we take ownership from the next programme cycle. Most transitions complete in under 30 days.
The switch costs you coordination time. Not operational disruption.
Synchronised Launch
Move 1Immigration, housing, shipping, schools, settling-in, and expense management run through one LSS operational team from the first move.
Your employee never re-explains their story to a stranger at a different company.
Cascade Control
Ongoing — every moveWhen any timeline shifts — a visa delay, a housing market change, a school deadline — every connected workstream adjusts the same day. No company boundaries to cross.
Dead rent, emergency extensions, and storage surprises stop appearing in your cost reports.
Month-6 Continuity
Every assignmentResearch identifies months 3–6 as the highest-risk period for relocating families. In the standard model, the destination service contract expires at week 4–6. Your LSS consultant stays connected through month six.
Your assignment completion rate reflects the full investment you made in moving that person.
Where Your Current Programme Loses Money — And What The Synchronised Move™ Recovers
This is not a marketing claim. Every pound in this table can be verified against your actual supplier invoices.
| Saving Category | Per Move | Annual (15 Moves) |
|---|---|---|
| Eliminated hidden supplier markups | £2,000–£4,000 | £30,000–£60,000 |
| Eliminated tax gross-up multiplication | £1,000–£2,200 | £15,000–£33,000 |
| Eliminated timing waste (dead rent, storage, emergency extensions) | £1,500–£3,500 | £22,500–£52,500 |
| Reclaimed HR coordination time | £800–£1,200 | £12,000–£18,000 |
| TOTAL VERIFIABLE HARD SAVINGS | £5,300–£10,900 | £79,500–£163,500 |
Sources: UrbanBound Corporate Relocation Report; HomeServices Relocation, Berkshire Hathaway; Altair Global Mobility Benchmarking Study.
The range reflects your programme's variables — current vendor structure, move volume, and geography. Your Programme Assessment will produce a figure specific to your operation.
These are hard savings. They sit on top of LSS's management fees being 35–40% lower than Tier 1 providers.
The One Structural Difference That Changes Everything
Every major relocation provider — SIRVA, Cartus, Graebel — assigns your employee a coordinator. The Synchronised Move™ operates a different model: an authority holder who controls workstreams inside one company.
| Feature | Standard Model | The Synchronised Move™ |
|---|---|---|
| Your consultant's role | Coordinator. Sees the problem. Contacts separate companies. Waits 2–5 days. | Authority holder. Sees the problem. Adjusts the plan directly. Hours, not days. |
| When a visa is delayed | Alerts housing, shipping & schools across company boundaries. 2–5 days to confirm. | Adjusts housing, shipping & schools within the same team, same day. |
| Who your employee talks to | One RMC contact, plus separate people at the DSP, housing company, and immigration firm. | One LSS consultant who manages everything. Employee never re-explains their story. |
| Pricing model | Percentage markups on every service. Vendor profits from complexity. | Flat fees. LSS profits from efficiency. No hidden costs. |
| Family support after week 4 | DSP contract ends. Family is on their own at months 3–6. | Same consultant through month 6. No scope expiry. |
| Programme stability | Major Tier 1 providers have changed ownership multiple times in the last 5 years. | LSS has operated under consistent ownership since 1986. |
| Cost vs. Tier 1 | Baseline (100%) | 35–40% lower management fees + £5,300–£10,900 in eliminated hidden costs per move. |
What makes this structurally irreplicable:
- In-house immigration since 1986. Without this, the housing team cannot see the visa timeline in real time.
- Direct operational authority over destination services. LSS delivers through its own employees — never a subcontract chain.
- Flat-fee pricing. LSS earns the same whether your move is smooth or complicated.
- 38 years of continuous operation under this model. Estimated time for a competitor to replicate: 3–5 years.
What we do not do:
- We do not charge percentage markups on supplier invoices.
- We do not earn rebates from suppliers.
- We do not subcontract your employee's key decisions to companies we cannot direct.
- We do not end our support at week four when your family needs it most.
Answering Your Questions
We've heard 'we're different' from every relocation provider. What makes this credible?
The question isn't which provider is better. The question is which structure is better. SIRVA, Cartus, and Graebel all operate the same fundamental model: a coordinator who watches workstreams across separate companies. The Synchronised Move™ operates a different model: an authority holder who controls workstreams inside one company.
Every saving in our table is traceable to a specific cost category, sourced from documented industry research: UrbanBound, HomeServices Relocation (Berkshire Hathaway), and Altair Global. More importantly — once we've mapped your current programme, we show you exactly where these costs appear in your invoices.
We handle the programme intelligence extraction. Moves already in flight complete under their management — we take ownership from the next programme cycle. Our standard transition completes in under 30 days.
LSS has operated in-house immigration coordination since 1986. We handle complex visa categories, sponsor licence compliance, and dual-country scenarios as a matter of routine. The Synchronised Move™ is specifically designed for the complex move.
Yes — faster employee productivity (8–15 fewer lost days per move), UK compliance penalty avoidance (£60,000+ per illegal working breach), and reduced failed assignment risk (costs of up to £1M per failed assignment). Your Programme Assessment will surface which apply to your operation.
The One Question That Changes Everything
"Call your current relocation provider and ask one question: if my employee's visa is delayed by 3 weeks, how many separate companies need to agree before the housing start date, the shipping delivery, and the school enrolment are adjusted? If the answer is more than zero — you are paying for coordination. LSS offers authority."
One Conversation. Your Complete Programme Picture.
Right now, somewhere in your active relocation programme, there's a timing gap costing money that won't appear on any invoice.
You don't need to take our word for it. We'll show you where it's happening in your programme — in 30 minutes.
Here's what happens when you book a Programme Assessment:
- 1We review your current programme structure: vendors, workstreams, where authority currently sits.
- 2We identify the specific boundary crossings where your programme currently loses time and money.
- 3We show you what The Synchronised Move™ would look like for your volume, geography, and employee profile.
- 4You decide — with full information — whether the structure is the right fit.
30 minutes. No obligation. We do the analysis — you decide.