Solutions/In-country employment/First country manager
Market entry
First country manager
No local company yet. The country manager had to sit on a local contract and payroll — not a long visitor visa.
Project background
The company was entering a market. The country manager had to see customers, lease an office, and hire the next people before an entity existed. A long visitor visa does not cover actual management.
In-country employment put the person on a local contract and payroll. The client still directed the work.
Profile
- Will take a local contract and social charges as the first person in the country organisation — not a regional visitor.
- Can complete onboarding under local bank and registration rules.
- Family permits, if needed, sit on a mobility path — not a visitor visa.
- “Three months of travel and then we see” is not an employment plan.
Search timeline
First gate
Contract in 8 business days
Second gate
Paid in-month or next cycle
The contract went out on business day eight. Pay followed the country’s calendar, in-month or next cycle. The office lease and later hires sat after the contract, not before.
CVs presented
Presented
1
Landed
1
One joiner. The person had already been searched. These figures are the employment landing, not a second list.
What we took from it
The country manager sat in front of customers and landlords as a local employee, not as a repeat visitor.
Later hires followed on the same local footing, so the first person was not still on a visa while the second signed a labour contract.
For the next brief: pick the employment path before the start date. Visa rotations do not carry a country-manager seat.